On display in the new facilities is an initial selection from its collection, including 37 different works of arts
The Stämpfli Foundation – Contemporary Art Museum will be opening the initial exhibition of works from its permanent collection this Saturday, 16 April at 19:00. The Foundation’s brand-new facilities, christened on 30 January this year and located in the very heart of Sitges, present the essential body of the collection’s contents, structured on the basis of a dialogue between “stories, objects and practices”, according to the design developed by its curator Serge Lemoine, professor at the Sorbonne University. This first exhibition of the permanent collection, which will be on display until next autumn, is made up of 37 works by 35 artists.
The opening of this permanent show will allow us to contemplate works from the Foundation’s collection at the site that’s been set aside to be its stable venue, currently made up of the old Fish Market and the first floor of Can Mec, two buildings that have been renovated to house the Foundation. In a future second phase, the facilities will be enlarged to include the building at number 5-7 Bosch Street, and will be connected from inside. Due to the fact that the Foundation’s collection is larger than the exhibition space it presently has, the collection will be displayed partially according to a proposal and discourse developed by a specialist, as is the initial case of Serge Lemoine.
This first exhibition includes a selection of 37 works from among the sixty or so that make up the Foundation’s collection. It is an itinerary with works created between 1965 and today that presents, on the one hand, how the artists wished to favor the subject aided by a traditional technique and, on the other, to show reality through the elements themselves that it’s made up of. Another group of artists are clearly more concerned about painting itself, with the intention of showing the mechanisms of their creation or some fundamental aspects.
The works on display are presented in the three spaces that currently make up the Stämplfi Foundation’s installations: two floors of the old Fish Market and the first floor of Can Mec. 300 square meters altogether, presenting a complete panorama of different tendencies in contemporary art. All of the works that make up the Foundation’s collection have been donated by the artists, as an initiative of Mr. and Mrs. Pere and Anna Maria Stämpfli, for them to specifically become a part of this collection. The Foundation has currently brought together over sixty works by 58 world-famous artists. Serge Lemoine’s selection presents works by 35 artists of ten different nationalities, including Erro, Gérard Fromanger, Daniel Dezeuze, Jacques Monory, Antonio Segui and Vladimir Velickovic, among others.
The Stämpfli Foundation– Contemporary Art’s regular opening hours will be Fridays and Saturdays from 9:30 to 14:00 and 15:30 to 18:30 and Sundays from 10:00 to 15:00. From 1 July to 30 September, it will be opening Fridays and Saturdays from 9:30 to 14:00 and 16:00 to 19:00, and Sundays from 10:00 to 15:00.
You can see pictures of installations and works on:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fundaciostampfli/
