With the creation of the Collezione Farnesina in 2001, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has made of contemporary artistic research an area of strategic intervention of its cultural policy.
The acquisition formula based on loan agreements, free of charge, has led to a steady development of the collection through particularly relevant works for the history of Italian art in the 20th century: from Arturo Martini to Mario Sironi, from Carla Accardi to Jannis Kounellis.
The collection, edited by Maurizio Calvesi until 2013, contains the most representative expressions of the visual arts of the 20th century Italian. The paintings, sculptures, installations and mosaics are distributed in the large spaces of the Farnesina building on the long path formed by corridors, meeting rooms and ministry environments.
The collection follows the history of 20th-century Italian art through the currents of Art Nouveau, Futurism, Metaphysics, Artisticism, Poor Art, Transavanguardia, to the latest artistic productions, and includes important works of art Duilio Cambellotti, Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni and Fortunato Depero, Mario Sironi, Giorgio De Chirico and Carlo Carrà, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Alberto Burri, Carla Accardi, Luigi Montanarini, Getulio Alviani, Piero Dorazio, Osvaldo Licini, Giulio Turcato, Emilio Vedova, Renato Guttuso, Fabrizio Plessi and Ardengo Soffici, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Ceroli, Mario Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Alighiero Boetti and Giulio Paolini, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi and Mimmo Paladino, Roberto Almagno, Andrea Vizzini, Getulio Alviani, Omar Galliani, Bice Lazzari, Gino Marotta, Paola Gandolfi, Stefano Di Stasio, Nunzio, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Giuseppe Gallo and Mustafa Sabbagh.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Foreign Ministry Collection has been exhibited several times in international exhibitions.
In 2004 the exhibition Balla Alla Transavanguardia. One hundred years of Italian art at the Farnesina. Is at the Triennale of Milan.
In 2005 the Collection is exhibited in India: Italian Art 1950-1970. Masterpieces from the Farnesina Collection, (1950-1970 Italian Art from the Farnesina Collection), at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi.
In 2006, with the exhibition of Italian Signs from the Collection of Contemporary Art to the Farnesina, it is presented at the Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade.
In 2007, the works of 20 Masters of the Farnesina Collection were exhibited at the exhibition space ExhibAir of Malpensa Airport. In the same year the collection is exposed to the public in the Open Doors category. On May 4, 2007, to promote Italian art abroad, the Farnesina launched a traveling exhibition entitled Travel to Italian Art 1950-1980. 100 works from the Farnesina Collection. The exhibition exhibits between 100 and 100 works of the Collection in 2007 in a different cities of the world. The Journey to the Italian Art in 2007 is in several countries of the south-east and central Europe: the National Gallery of Modern Art in Sarajevo (May), the National Museum of Foreign Art in Sofia (June) at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest (July-October), at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest (November-December), at the National Museum of Brukenthal in Sibiu (September-October) and at the Wilanow Palace Museum in Warsaw (December-January). In 2008 the exhibition travels to Latin America: Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Lima, Caracas, and Guadalajara.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, also referred to as MAECI, or as "La Farnesina", from its seat, the Palace of the Farnesina in Rome, is the dicastery of the Italian government which has the task of implementing The foreign policy of the Italian government. Represents Italy in the international context.
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