Garden of Monumental Delights
September 2007
According to Miranda MacPhail, the collection’s curator, Gori enjoys inviting artists who have
never worked outside but who he feels show a “certain know-how, sophistication and particular idea about how to use space.” Typically, the artists spend some time at Celle, choose a location, discuss project details and logistics with Gori, and finally execute the work. For Gori, whose career was based in the local specialty of textile manufacture, the relationships he has developed with the artists are the most rewarding part of the process. He views Celle as first and foremost a workshop for creativity.
The newest addition to the collection is a house-like structure by Daniel Buren, the radical French artist best known for his dominating stripes of black and white created in various media. The “Cabane éclaté aux 4 Salles,” 2005, is in a hedged-off area that once was an overgrown tennis court. Buren’s open-air cubic sculpture is entirely mirrored on the outside, making it almost invisible. Inside, it is divided into four small rooms with rectangular openings leading both to the outside and to the other rooms. The internal walls are painted with alternating bands of bright colors and mirrored. The effect of entering a kaleidoscope is nearly perfect.
Fattoria di Celle reflects its founder’s remarkable openness to a range of aesthetics: minimal to theatrical, large and small, abstract and figurative, delicate and bold. This is truly one of the world’s most beautiful settings for modern art, and one leaves with the sense that nature and art can indeed be experienced as a harmonious whole.
Fattoria di Celle, the Gori Collection, Via Montalese 7, 51030 Santomato di Pistoia, Italy. The collection can be visited by appointment only on weekdays from mid-April to September 30. To make an appointment, call 011.39.0573.479907, fax 011.39.0573.479486 or e-mail goricoll@tin.it.
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Robert Morris and Claudio Parmiggiani, |
The newest addition to the collection is a house-like structure by Daniel Buren, the radical French artist best known for his dominating stripes of black and white created in various media. The “Cabane éclaté aux 4 Salles,” 2005, is in a hedged-off area that once was an overgrown tennis court. Buren’s open-air cubic sculpture is entirely mirrored on the outside, making it almost invisible. Inside, it is divided into four small rooms with rectangular openings leading both to the outside and to the other rooms. The internal walls are painted with alternating bands of bright colors and mirrored. The effect of entering a kaleidoscope is nearly perfect.
Fattoria di Celle reflects its founder’s remarkable openness to a range of aesthetics: minimal to theatrical, large and small, abstract and figurative, delicate and bold. This is truly one of the world’s most beautiful settings for modern art, and one leaves with the sense that nature and art can indeed be experienced as a harmonious whole.
Fattoria di Celle, the Gori Collection, Via Montalese 7, 51030 Santomato di Pistoia, Italy. The collection can be visited by appointment only on weekdays from mid-April to September 30. To make an appointment, call 011.39.0573.479907, fax 011.39.0573.479486 or e-mail goricoll@tin.it.
Clara Patricia Kauffman writes on contemporary art, film and video from Florence, Italy, and Paris.
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