FLORENCE - A selection of works by twentieth-century masters from private Florentine and Tuscan collections: this is what the 'Passione Novecento' exhibition, from Paul Klee to Damien Hirst, proposes.
Works from private collections', visible from 24 September to 8 January at Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence.
The exhibition, it was explained during the presentation in Florence, is a project of the Novecento museum and aims to connect the great Renaissance tradition of collecting and patronage to the passion for contemporary art.
Among the works on display there are masterpieces by Paul Klee and de Chirico, by Morandi and Savinio, alongside those by Martini and Melotti, Fontana and Burri.
But also more famous contemporary names such as those of Warhol and Lichtenstein, Alighiero Boetti and Daniel Buren, up to Damien Hirst and Cecily Brown, Ai Weiwei and Tracey Emin.
"The exhibition Passione Novecento - explains Sergio Risaliti, director of the Novecento museum - will open concurrently with the Florence Art Week and the International Antiques Biennial which, after the break dictated by the
