W eaving a rich tapestry of the defining moments of 20th and 21st century art, this Private European Collection offers a portrait of international modernism shaped not by chronology or allegiance to prescribed categories, but by rigorous curatorial discernment. What unites the works gathered here is a shared and enduring commitment to interrogating the very nature of artistic creation; they are treatises on the specificity of media, notions of surface, the occupation of space, and the interplay of light. The result of this unabated connoisseurship is an intellectually and sensorially grounded collection that triumphantly bridges artistic practices across Europe, America and beyond. When viewed together, this collection has assembled artists – spanning modern masters to the postwar avant-garde, Arte Povera and minimal and conceptual thinkers – who have carved the contours of Modernism.

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