Urban Notes

Following the success of the exhibition of selected works from the collection at the MoCA, Shanghai under the title "The Age of Metamorphosis: European Art Highlights from the Centro Pecci Collection", and similar to the recent exhibitions staged by the most important international museums (including the Centre Pompidou and the Tate Modern), the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art has conceived a new theme-based organisation for the collection beginning 8 September.

The exhibition entitled "Note urbane", presents a representative series of the works of the collection of the Pecci Museum, which mirrors the contemporary condition of the city and its meeting places, taking the place of the more traditional professions associated with these aspects namely town planners, architects, sociologists and opinion-makers. An exhibition composed of notes and the works themselves which, rather than a point of view, give food for thought on the phenomenon of our times, namely the expansion of the city. The by-line, Souvenir of the Collection of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art, evokes the keepsake brought back from a journey as a souvenir of places visited - in this case the features of a city such as the photographs of Araki on Naples, or those by Raghubir Singh on Benares, but for many, even the souvenir of the exhibitions put on at the Pecci Centre from which the works have been taken. Because a collection is the story of a museum and an exhibition is a way of showing works normally kept in the stockroom. Among the pieces on show recently acquired by the collection are works by Erwin Wurm, Marco Neri, Rainer Ganahl, VALIE EXPORT and David Tremlett.

The area in which "Note urbane" will be set up will also house the "Small Cabinet of the Artists from the Garden of Daniel Spoerri", on long-term loan from the artist evoking the shift from garden to city which has characterised the history of western civilisation.

Furthermore, the central section of the large hall will be dedicated to Umberto Buscioni and his five major canvases, the final act of the donation of about 200 pieces by the Prato collector Carlo Palli at the end of 2005.

Works by: Vahram Aghasyan, Luca Andreoni e Antonio Fortugno, Nobuyoshi Araki, Marco Bagnoli, Richard Baquié, Massimo Bartolini, Lapo Binazzi, Marco Cingolani, Gilberto Corretti, Mario Dellavedova, Rainer Ganahl, Piero Gilardi, Takashi Homma, Olga Kisseleva, Silvio e Vittorio Loffredo, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Roberto Malquori, Luca Marcucci, Mario Mariotti, Stelio Maria Martini, Eugenio Miccini, Maurizio Nannucci, Marco Neri, Luciano Ori, Michele Perfetti, Gianni Pettina, Leonardo Pignotti, Raghubir Singh, Superstudio, David Tremlett, UFO, Nomeda e Gediminas Urbonas, VALIE EXPORT, Massimo Vitali, Rodolfo Vitone, Erwin Wurm, Kenji Yanobe

Urban Notes / Note Urbane

Künstler: Vahram Aghasyan, Luca Andreoni e Antonio Fortugno, Nobuyoshi Araki, Marco Bagnoli, Richard Baquie, Massimo Bartolini, Lapo Binazzi, Marco Cingolani, Gilberto Corretti, Mario Dellavedova, Rainer Ganahl, Piero Gilardi, Takashi Homma, Olga Kisseleva, Silvio e Vittorio Loffredo, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Roberto Malquori, Luca Marcucci, Mario Mariotti, Stelio Maria Martini, Eugenio Miccini, Maurizio Nannucci, Marco Neri, Luciano Ori, Michele Perfetti, Gianni Pettina, Leonardo Pignotti, Raghubir Singh, Superstudio , David Tremlett, UFO , Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas , VALIE EXPORT, Massimo Vitali, Rodolfo Vitone, Erwin Wurm, Kenji Yanobe