For collections built Miuchchi Prado Museum
ARTinvestment.RU   16 мая 2008

In place of the industrial facility in Milan, built a new museum, which will be exhibited over 500 works of contemporary art from the collection of fashion house Prada

On-site facility in Milan, built a new museum, which will be exhibited over 500 works of contemporary art from the collection of fashion house Prada.

Miuchcha Italian designer Prada is going to open a new museum in the Milan area of 625.75 square 1. m, to accommodate his collection of art is the last 15 years. The collection includes, in particular, works Anisha Kapoor, Louise Bourgeois, Sam Taylor-Wood, Francesco Vetstsoli and Thomas Demanda. Most of the very large size. Many works were created specifically to order Prado.

manage the construction of the museum, Ms. Prada and her husband, Patrizio Bertelli, was invited to the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaasa. A large industrial site in the south of Milan, will soon turn into a complex of exhibition spaces, which will host the permanent exhibition (over 500 jobs). The cost of the project is 25 million euro (39.9 million dollars). The opening of the museum is expected in 2012.

Since 1993, Ms. Prada orders in artists works for her Prada Foundation. C 1995, these works are exhibited in the gallery at Via Fogatstsaro, in the former industrial area in the center of Milan, where she also held fashion shows at home Prada. This gallery will be up to the opening of the new museum. There is an exhibition of installations of the Swedish artist Nathalie Yurberg (until June 1).

activities of the museum will be led by current director of Prada Foundation Italian art critic Germano Chelant. The complex will include a central exhibition space, a place called «tower» for storage and display of works and facilities, which will be theater, performances and conferences.

According to the representatives of the organizers of the project, the opening of the new museum of some of the artists of the new order. The names of these artists have not yet been named.

According to the Prada Foundation, the new museum will collaborate with world-renowned cultural institutions such as Tate Modern. In 2006, the Fund jointly with the London gallery has worked on the exhibition «Secret History of Italian Cinema 1949-81».

Source: www.theartnewspaper.com