A new museum opens in Rimini: 'PART Palazzi dell’Arte di Rimini'. A single project brings together the renovation of Palazzo dell'Arengo and Palazzo del Podestà for a cultural purpose. These are two architectural masterpieces from the 13th and 14th centuries, in the heart of the city, where the eclectic collection of contemporary art works donated by artists, collectors and gallerists to the San Patrignano Foundation will be permanently placed.
These are the artists of the collection: Mario Airò, Vanessa Beecroft, Bertozzi & Casoni, Domenico Bianchi, Alessandro Busci, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Maurizio Cannavacciuolo, Loris Cecchini, Jake e Dinos Chapman, Sandro Chia, Roberto Coda Zabetta, George Condo, Enzo Cucchi, Anne de Carbuccia, Thomas De Falco, Nicola de Maria, Gianluca Di Pasquale, Zehra Doğan, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Sam Falls, Flavio Favelli, Giuseppe Gallo, Alberto Garutti, Giorgio Griffa, Shilpa Gupta, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Carsten Höller, Emilio Isgrò, Giovanni Iudice, William Kentridge, Loredana Longo, Claudia Losi, Iva Lulashi, Ibrahim Mahama, Agnes Martin, Paul McCarthy, Igor Mitoraj, Davide Monaldi, Gian Marco Montesano, Mimmo Paladino, Yan Pei-Ming, Tullio Pericoli, Achille Perilli, Diego Perrone, Luca Pignatelli, Pino Pinelli, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gianni Politi, Matteo Pugliese, Jean Paul Riopelle, Pietro Ruffo, Mario Schifano, Julian Schnabel, Elisa Sighicelli, Andreas Slominski, Ettore Spalletti, Grazia Toderi, Francesco Vezzoli, Velasco Vitali, Silvio Wolf, Xiaongang Zhang.
The PART hosts a site-specific work by artist David Tremlett, created with the help of young people from the San Patrignano community.
The inauguration, initially scheduled for March, has been postponed to September. The doors of PART will open free of charge to the public for a special opening weekend: Thursday 24 September from 17.00 to midnight and Friday 25, Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September from 9 to midnight. The press preview will be held on Thursday 24 September 2020 starting at 10.30.