A New Home for the Casamonti Collection

The Casamonti Collection is reopening to the public in its new exhibition space at Palazzo San Giorgio, located at Lungarno Serristori 17, just steps away from the Ponte Vecchio.
The move marks a new phase in the cultural project envisioned by Roberto Casamonti and, for the first time, allows the collection to be presented through a single, comprehensive itinerary, moving beyond the alternating display of the two exhibition spaces that had characterized the previous venue at Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni, which opened in 2018. And the collection can be admired in its entirety for the first time, offering a journey through Italian and international art spanning from the 19th century to the present day.

The Casamonti Collection now brings together some 250 works, distributed across 28 rooms on the two exhibition levels of Palazzo San Giorgio. This exhibition journey spans different movements, generations, and artistic languages, offering a broader perspective on a collection built up over more than fifty years. It does not follow a rigidly encyclopedic approach, but rather explores comparisons, affinities, and differences that inevitably reflect the vision of the person who encountered and selected these works.

Casamonti brought his collection to "life" through relationships with artists, critics, and international cultural institutions. The core of the collection encompasses Italian painting from the 19th and 20th centuries and the historical avant-garde movements, from Futurism to Metaphysical Art, from Cubism to abstract experiments. The narrative proceeds toward Informal Art, Spatialism, Arte Povera, Nouveau Réalisme, and Pop Art, culminating in Graffiti Art, the Transavantgarde, Video Art, and Performance Art. Boldini and Balla, de Chirico and Picasso, Kandinsky, Dalí, Magritte, Fontana, and Burri thus coexist with Warhol, Basquiat, Haring, Bill Viola, Marina Abramović, Anselm Kiefer, Anish Kapoor, and Maurizio Cattelan. More than a chronological sequence, it is a web of connections between Italian and international artistic exploration.

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