Fondazione Biscozzi | Rimbaud (EN)

Luigi Biscozzi (1934-2018) - from Salento, the co-founder of a major tax-consulting firm in Europe - and his wife Dominique Rimbaud (1947) - from Provence, a long-time legal advisor to foreign groups operating in Italy - spent a lifetime together in Milan. Their shared passion for art led them to collect over two hundred works, including paintings, sculptures, and prints. They provide a deliberately personal interpretation of Italian and international twentieth-century art, with special reference to the years 1950-1980.
With the creation of the Fondazione Biscozzi | Rimbaud and the opening of a permanent exhibition venue in Lecce, this great heritage is made available to the public. The catalogue documents the collection’s contents and progressive formation. It includes texts by Luigi Biscozzi, Dominique Rimbaud, Paolo Bolpagni, Roberto Lacarbonara, Antonio Mallardi and Marco Tagliafierro.

Artists in the collection: Josef Albers, Pierre Alechinsky, Rodolfo Aricò, Ugo Attardi, Bernard Aubertin, Kengiro Azuma, Carlo Barbieri, Mirko Baricchi, Gianni Bertini, Mario Bionda, Renato Birolli, Agostino Bonalumi, Arturo Bonfanti, Osvaldo Bot. Enzo Brunori, Alberto Burri, Luca Caccioni, Aldo Calò, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Enrico Castellani, Mino Ceretti, Alfredo Chighine, Claudio Cintoli, Ettore Colla, Pietro Consagra, Salvatore Cuschera, Dadamaino, James Alan Davie, Eugène de Kermadec, Mario De Luigi, Ivan De Menis, Filippo de Pisis, Enrico Della Torre, Piero Dorazio, Evgeni Dybsky, Salvatore Esposito, Jean Fautrier, Rainer Fetting, Fabian Ginsberg, Giorgio Griffa, Michele Guido, Hans Hartung, Zoltan Kemeny, Emilio Isgrò, André Lanskoj, Bice Lazzari, Walter Leblanc, Jean Leppien, Osvaldo Licini, Francesco Lo Savio, Heinz Mack, Alberto Magnelli, Davide Marega, Arturo Martini, Livio Marzot, André Masson, Vittorio Matino, Roberto Sebastián Matta, Eliseo Mattiacci, Fausto Melotti, Umberto Milani, François Morellet, Magdalo Mussio, Mario Nigro, Achille Perilli, Enrico Prampolini, Bepi Romagnoni, Michael Rouillard, Franco Ruaro, Giancarlo Sangregorio, Salvatore Sava, Angelo Savelli, Emilio Scanavino, Paolo Scheggi, Mario Schifano, Christian Schmidt, Emil Schumacher, Luca Serra, Rob Sherwood, Carlo Sergio Signori, Ettore Sordini, Domenico Spinosa, Tancredi Parmeggiani, Togo, Giulio Turcato, Tino Vaglieri, Armanda Verdirame, Angelo Verga, Arturo Vermi, Luigi Veronesi, Renzo Vespignani, Antonello Viola, Bernd Zimmer, Gilberto Zorio

Contents

Introduction
Dominique Biscozzi Rimbaud

The Origins of Contemporary Art
Paolo Bolpagni

A Memory
Luigi Biscozzi

Salento. The Holy Land. Santa Cesarea, 'Chesareapalestina'
Antonio Mallardi

Biscozzi Beside the Rule
Marco Tagliafierro

Desire and Collecting
Roberto Lacarbonara

Approaches to the Informal
Matter
Sign-Gesture
Post-War Existential Realism. An Orientation
Abstractionism. The Theorists
Josef Albers. Theoretical Principles
Italian Abstractionism. The Forma 1
Approaches to Sculpture
Abstractions
Spatialism, Optical Art, Group Zero
Between Rome and New York. Other Approaches
Around the Sign
Sign / Drawing / Colour / Space. New Approaches and Acquisitions

A Homage to Carlo Barbieri
Luigi Biscozzi

Works

Biographies