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OUTSIDE THE BOX; A new exhibition celebrates the pioneering taste of Giuseppe Panza.(The Panza Collection: An Experience of Color and Light)
Byline: Leslie Camhi
It was a long way from the Baroque villa in Varese, Italy, where Count Giuseppe Panza DI biumo spent much of his childhood, to the drafty artists' lofts of Lower Manhattan. But that's where, on visits to studios since 1960, this Milanese aristocrat assembled a world-class collection of Abstract Expressionist, Pop, and Minimalist art. Why were the eyes of this elegant old-world figure (who, in his recently published memoirs, laments the decline of custom tailoring) so radically open to the new in American art?
"I loved philosophy, astronomy, nuclear physics," the irrepressible Panza, now 84, explains by phone from the Villa Menafoglio Litta Panza. (He and Rosa Giovanna, his wife of 50 years, still spend their summers there, one floor above the art-filled apartments-now a public museum-where they raised five children.) "To understand the new art was of primary importance to me," he continues. "It was like discovering a new theory in physics, or a new celestial body. It was born of this same desire, to know the unknown."
Americans will get a taste of Panza's singular vision when "The Panza Collection: An Experience of Color and Light," a show of 70 works by sixteen artists, including Dan Flavin, Bruce Nauman, and Anne Truitt, opens this month at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. (Around 1,000 pieces from earlier phases of the collection, including masterworks by Rothko and Rauschenberg, have already been placed in major institutions, including the Los Angeles Museum of ...
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- Magazine article from: Art in America February 1, 2001 700+ words
...others (LACMA/Abrams) Regular Price $32.50 SALE $30 Venice/Venezia: California Art from The Panza Collection Essays by Giuseppe Panza de Biumo, Germano Celant and others (Guggenheim) COMBINED SALE $87 Published on the occasion of...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post JoAnn Lewis December 4, 1988 700+ words
...read and enjoy. It is Art of the Sixties and Seventies: The Panza Collection (Rizzoli, $60), a fascinating, refreshingly candid and well-edited interview with Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, one of the truly great and original art collectors...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Christine Temin, Globe Staff September 27, 1987 700+ words
...Italian collector Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo; after the six...difficult" works from the Panza collection would be a real coup for...of what's left of the Panza collection as mediocre, even though...community, whether or not the Panza collection can lure visitors to ...
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- Magazine article from: Art in America VETROCQ, MARCIA E. January 1, 2001 700+ words
...small. Setting the standard is Giuseppe Panza, whose villa and collection...two events associated with Giuseppe Panza and his wife, Giovanna, who...precursor of certain artists in the Panza collection), opened in Varese in November...
- FORMER MILL PICTURED AS GIANT MUSEUM MASSACHUSETTS CITY CONSIDERED.(Local)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) May 3, 1987 700+ words
...models. The art collection, owned and assembled by Count Giuseppe Panza, an Italian industrialist, consists primarily of American...given time. By contrast, at the North Adams complex, the Panza collection alone would occupy about 180,000 square feet. The museum...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Jo Ann Lewis June 5, 1994 700+ words
...art in the world, has surfaced since it was promised to the gallery in 1992. (It is surpassed only by the Giuseppe Panza collection of Varese, Italy, part of which was recently sold for $42 million to New York's Guggenheim Museum, where...
- Williams College Scores Art Coup
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post April 21, 1987 700+ words
...last week that it reached tentative agreement with Count Giuseppe Panza of Milan to exhibit some of his artworks from the 1960s...Thomas Krens, director of the Williams museum, has said the Panza collection would take up 180,000 square feet, or a quarter of the...
- Italy to Join Museum Building Binge.
- Magazine article from: Art in America Ebony, David December 1, 1998 700+ words
...avant-garde works recently presented to Italy by collector Giuseppe Panza di Biumo [see "Front Page," Sept. '96]. Panza says that...donated to the state in 1996 as a public venue for display of the Panza collection.