An unexpected collection. The galleries of Italy pay a tribute to Robert Rauschenberg – Milan

Milan – A hundred years after the birth of Robert Rauschenberg, the Gallerie d’Italia in Milan brought a tribute to the teacher who opened the doors to pop art that conquered the attention of the press and the audience around the world with his combinations of ready that was ready on the street or in the landfills.
From 29 May to 5 October, the Milanese headquarters of Intesa Sanpaolo invites the audience to taste a selection of masterpieces from the Luigi and Peppino Agrati collection, rarely together, part of the bank’s artistic heritage.
“An unexpected collection. The new art of the sixties and a tribute to Robert Rauschenberg“This is the title of the exhibition of Luca Massimo Barbero, accompanying curator of the modern and contemporary art collections of the Bank, will exhibit for the first time to the public, the entire core of works by Rauschenberg of the Collections Luigi and Peppino Agrati. An indispensable opportunity to endorse the Fundis, Fundis, Fundis, Fundis, Fundis, Fundis, Fundis, Fundis, Underdist, Fundis, Underdist. The community, the contributions of artists such as Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni will be added, compared to the research of the new generations that open the 1960s, such as Giulio Paolini, Robert Ryman and Richard Serra, for a total of 60 works that the public of the radical journey of the Radicale on the Radicale of the Radicalses of the Radicalses on the Radicale of the Radicalses of the Radicalsen. offer the decades.

Roy Lichtenstein, Yellow and Black Brushstroke (Eat Art), 1965-1966 Plastic painted on plywood, 116 x 47 cm, Luigi and Peppino Agrati Collection – Intesa Sanpaolo

However, the support point of the route will be the tribute to the Grote Rauschenberg and its deep link with Italy and with Peppino Agrati, friend and collector. The 17 masterpieces of the artist stand out Blue output from 1961, while the relationship between Peppino Agrati and Lucio Amelio, which can be seen through the work, shown GLUT SILVER SENDER From 1987 of the historical exhibition organized by the owner of the Napolitan gallery, it comes to the fore in addition to the drawings, the lithographs that bring back the technical evolution that Rauschenberg has made innovative.
The journey edited by Luca Massimo Barbero therefore proposes a comparison between the great masters of contemporary art of two opposite sides of the ocean, between minimalism and Monochrome, with works by Carl Andre, Robert Mangold, Enrico Castellani. A moment of in-depth study of the new imagination of the sixties develops with Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jannis Kounellis, Edward Ruscha, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein, Jean-Michel Basquiol.

Piero Manzoni, Achrome, 1958, Caolino and Grijnsd Canvas, 100 x 70 cm, Intesa Sanpaolo Collection

With this new exhibition, the improvement of the collection continues that was created from 1968 by the two important industrialists, Luigi and Peppino Agrati, representatives of the Lombard Illumined Bourgeoisie. After the death of Peppino, the witness was collected by his brother Luigi who, together with his wife, decided to donate this treasure to Intesa Sanpaolo.