Parisi-Valle donation includes 2085 pieces: 915 graphic works, 439 two-dimensional works, and 325 three-dimensional works, plus over four hundred ancient finds and coins.
The donation can be considered, as Carla Burani wrote, “a contribution to modern and contemporary Italian art from the 30’s to the 80’s and can be compared to the most advanced European artistic experiences which are here part of a specifically Italian historical and artistic context.
Works by members of the old avant-garde join those of lesser-known artists who re-interpreted the stimuli received by them and represent a wider artistic and cultural environment.
The variety of ways chosen to represent reality – and therefore to relate to reality – is expressed through rhetorical, formal, informal, metaphysical, surreal, rational-concrete, neoplastic, geometrical images (even if these kinds of definitions are arbitrary) and offers a complete picture of the various aspects of Italian art and culture of this century…”
Premise to the donation
“…considering that culture in general – and visual art in particular – is going through a difficult time, we want to support the ethical principle that visual art works must belong to social communities which have the right to enjoy them, as opposed to being commercialized or kept away from the public in private collections. That can only be possible if the works are collected in decentralized areas, as art historians such as Ragghianti, Ponente, Menna, Argan, Pedio and Tallarico maintain. Hence the idea of contributing to this goal through a donation and the creation of a museum panel, both of which will help develop an innovative project and concrete and rational informative values in the field of visual arts. This project can represent a prestigious and innovative point of reference, especially for Maccagno, positively different in terms of its interactive and disciplinary relationship with the public, absolutely free from every kind of bias and external influence.”
From the official act of donation, April 18, 1997
Artists featured in the museum's collection
Angelini Balla Basaldella Bevilacqua Biggi Birolli Calabrese Calderara Capogrossi Carlini Carlucci Carrino Carta Casotti César Colla Collemeto Consagra Cornolò Dea De Chirico Del Sole Dompè Dorner Falchi Fazzini Fiume Frascà Furlani Garofalo Genovese Giansiracusa Grignan Guaricci Guberti Guerrini Guidi Guttuso Lancia Lanzara Lazzari Levi Lichter Maffettoni Maldonado Mazzullo Monaco Monti Morandini Morano Morellet Onoda Pace Parisi P.A.Parisi Picasso Pierelli Presta Robusti Ronchi Rulli Ruta Sadun Scirpa Spozio Tornquist Tot Turcato Vaccarini Valenti Vangelli Vasarely Zannerio.
Acquisitions 2006 – 2011
Artists included
Aldo Alberti, Sergio Alberti, Hermann Amann, Valerio Anceschi, Samuele Arcangioli, Mario Arlati, Antonio Armano, Jania Arnoli, Ako Atikossie, Bernard Aubertin, Giuseppe Ayna, Orazio Bacci, Marco Baj, Giuliano Barbanti, Alberto Barbieri, Filippo Barbieri, Sandro Bardelli, Fiorenzo Barindelli, Paolo Barrile, Franco Bassignani, Edoardo Bassoli, Anna Clara Beltrani, Giovanni Beluffi, Giacomo Benevelli, Marco Bergamaschi, Carlo Bernardini, Angelo Bertoglio, Giuseppe Bertolio, Giovanni Blandino, Floriano Bodini, Massimo Bollani, Giuseppe Bombaci, Paolo Bonaldi, Emiliano Bonfanti, Alessandra Bonoli, Giampiero Bonomi, Angelo Bordiga, Bruno Bordoli, Claudio Borghi, Adalberto Borioli, Paolo Borrelli, Giacinto Bosco, Laura Branca, Matthias Brandes, Flora Bravin, Remo Brindisi, Otello Brocca, Wanda Broggi, Giovanni Bruno, Gianni Brusamolino, Brunivo Buttarelli, Angelo Cagnone, Paolo Camaeti, Erica Campanella, Claudia Canavesi, Michele Cannaò, Mauro Capelli, Walter Capelli, Ferdinando Capisani, Giovanni Cappelli, Carmine Caputo di Roccanova, Giuliano Cardella, Valentina Carnieli, Elisabetta Casella, Nino Cassani, Loriana Castano, Marilù Cattaneo, Luigi Cavina, Giancarlo Cazzaniga, Lorenzo Cazzaniga, Gianni Cella, Rosita Celorio, Giancarlo Cerri, Giovanni Cerri, Angelo Cesana, Franco Chiarani, Renato Chiesa, Chiò, Piero Cicoli, Raffaele Cioffi, Maurizio Collini, Gladys Colmenares, Alfredo Colombo, Melo Consoli, Azio Corni, Flavio Costantini, Maria Credidio, Zaccaria Cremaschi, Luca Crippa, Franco Crocco, Francesco Cucci, Giancarlo Curone, Francesco Dalmaschio, Vittorio D'Ambros, Angelo De Boni, Anne De Kervasdué, Mario De Leo, Loredana De Lorenzi, Mariangela De Maria, Pier Sandro Del Rio, Michele Delisi, Lino Di Vinci, Alessandro Docci, Marina Falco, Massimo Falsaci, Max Falsetta Spina, Marica Fasoli, Oreste Ferrado, Davide Ferro, Armando Fettolini, Pieralberto Filippi, Veronica Fonzo, Rosanna Forino, Ilaria Forlini, Mauro Fornari, Giovanna Fra, Gaetano Fracassio, Antonio Franzetti, Vittore Frattini, Nicoletta Frigerio, Grazia Gabbini, Ignazio Gadaleta, Renato Galbusera, Maurizio Galimberti, Itala Gasperini, Marianna Gasperini, Luciano Gatti, Gianantonio Gennari, Mirella Gerosa, Italo Ghilardi, Remo Giatti, Andrea Giovannini, Giovanfrancesco Gonzaga, Carmelo Grasso, Emanuele Gregolin, Marco Grimaldi, Giuliano Grittini, Linda Grittini, Enzo Guaricci, Luigi Guerricchio, Lucia Innocenti, Maria Jannelli, Dino Lanaro, Fazio Lauria, Trento Longaretti, Patrizia Lovato, Giuliana Lucchini, Irene Magni, MaGo (Maurizio Goracci), Enzo Maio, Pierantonio Manca, Niccolò Mandelli Contegni, Lorenzo Manenti, Silvia Manfredini, Bruno Marcelloni, Massimo Marchesotti, Antonio Marchetti Lamera, Adriana Marchetto, Piermarco Mariani, Max Marra, Mino Marra, Ruggiero Marrani, Franco Marrocco, Massimo Maselli, Alfredo Mazzotta, Giorgio Melzi, Elena Mezzadra, Antonio Miano, Antonio Mignozzi, Gualtiero Mocenni, Simone Mocenni Beck, Elena Modorati, Maria Molteni, Mattia Montemezzani, Marcello Morandini, Ettore Moschetti, Gianfranco Motton, Cirillo Murer, Antonio Musella, Ayako Nakamiya, Carlo Nangeroni, Ester Negretti, Sandro Negri, Daniela Nenciulescu, Ugo Nespolo, Gianfranco Nicolato, Teresa Noto, Daniela Novello, Patrizia Novello, Gaetano Orazio, Gottardo Ortelli, Giancarlo Ossola, Antonio Pacchiarini, Giovanni Paganin, Federico Palerma, Maria Papa, Vincenzo Parea, Mario Paschetta, Antonio Pedretti, Raffaele Penna, Lucio Perna, Bernardo Peruta, Lucia Pescador, Giovanna Pesenti, Giangi Pezzotti, Massimo Piazza, Lorenzo Pietrogrande, Alfa Pietta, Jonas Pitscheider, Nada Pivetta, Antonio Pizzolante, Gabriele Poli, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Dolores Previtali, Vittorio Prina, Roberto Pronzato, Clara Quarenghi, Mario Raciti, Mario Radice, Roberto Rampinelli, Stefania Ranghieri, Stella Ranza, Paola Ravasio, Liberio Reggiani, Grazia Ribaudo, Chiara Ricardi, Clotilde Rinella, Charlotte Ritzow, Romano Rizzato, Flavia Robalo, Franco Rognoni, Raffaele Romano, Domenico Rosellini, Brunella Rossi, Giorgio Rossi, Maurizio Ruzzi, Anna Sala, Giovanni Sala, Mario Salina, Vanni Saltarelli, Sergio Sansevrino, Giusi Santoro, Alessandro Savelli, Pietro Scampini, Paolo Schiavocampo, Ida Rosa Scotti, Testsuro Shimizu, Maria Luisa Simone, Stefano Soddu, Roberto Sommariva, Giorgio Sovana, Alessandro Spadari, Osvaldo Spagnulo, Valdi Spagnulo, Mena Stelitano, Elena Strada, Luigi Stradella, Luiso Sturla, Isao Sugiyama, Emilio Tadini, Vania Elettra Tam, Sara Tardonato, Anna Maria Targher, Sandra Tenconi, Mario Tettamanti, Jelica Tipic', Angelo Titonel, Caterina Tosoni, Alessandro Traina, Walter Trecchi, Italo Valenti, Paolo Valle, Giacomo Vanetti, Vincenzino Vanetti, Gloria Vanni, Roberto Vecchione, Armanda Verdirame, Pierantonio Verga, Mario Vergani, Giorgio Vicentini, Valentino Vidotti, Antonietta Viganone, Dario Zaffaroni, Piergiorgio Zangara, Claudio Zanini, Eugenio Zanon, Bruno Zoppetti.