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To mark the 80th birthday of the collector Egidio Marzona, a special project from the collection is being presented to the public for the first time: 80 very first books by 80 artists from the 1960s and 1970s. These artists’ books reflect the great artistic upheaval associated with this era. In addition, a thematic selection of artworks from the Marzona Collection will be on display from 27 October 2024 to 26 January 2025. On the initiative of the Neue Nationalgalerie, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is honouring the collector and patron with this exhibition. It has been organised in collaboration with the Art Library and the Archive of the Avant-Garde – Egidio Marzona, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
A passionate collector
Egidio Marzona began in the early 1960s as a collector and distributor of the conceptual art ideas of his time. His guiding principle was an encyclopaedic collection of all the artistic media of Conceptual Art, Minimal Art, Land Art and Arte Povera. His large collection of art from the 1960s and 1970s with over 600 works of art and …
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Image above: Stephen Kaltenbach, Eye Disguise, 1967, Collage from black/white photographies, © Stephen Kaltenbach / photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart / Marcus Schneider
