Villa e Collezione Panza
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Since he was a boy, Giuseppe Panza had always had shown great interest in the history of art. In the early fifties, having moved to the United State after graduating from university, he came into contact with pioneers of the abstract expressionist movement and was deeply struck.

When he returned to Italy, he delved deeper into the new American and European trends; in 1956, he began buying his first paintings, immediately orienting his purchases towards work by artists as yet unknown to the general public.
The ample space on the ground floor on the Villa was enhanced by many new American canvases ( Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist ), thus stimulating controversial reactions among the numerous houseguests.

The Panza Collection began to be known, and as the word spread, scholars and admirers visited, paying homage to the prescience and extraordinary artistic sensibility of the owner.
After having used all the available space on the main floor, in the late sixties, Giuseppe Panza was forced to renovate and adapt the spaces in the stables and carriage house so that they could house the installations by the Californian artists James Turrel, Maria Nordman and Robert Irwin. Some of these works- mostly explorations of space and illuminations that tend to re-create new perceptual situations- were designed and realised specifically for Biumo, by the same artists, between 1973 and 1976.
This wing contains many works by the New York artist Dan Flavin, of whose art the Panza Collection boasts the largest number of continuously exhibited pieces.

In 1996, Giuseppe Panza decided to donate the entire property to the FAI, Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano, with the intention of preserving for posterity not just his home, but also the vast art collection it contained – an European treasure trove of the best American art, recognised as one of the most important movements of the second-half of the twentieth century. In particular the eighties are represented by Phil Sims, David Simson, Ruth Ann Fredenthal, Stuart Arends, Max Cole and others. Artists less celebrated than the previous ones, but in Panza’s view possible trend-setters for future generations.














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