More than 300.000 km traveled on ships, planes, trains and trucks: after the Florentine première in the Crypt of the Basilica of Santa Croce, an uninterrupted journey has taken the luminous installations of the Targetti Light Art Collection to show themselves in incomparably beautiful monuments such as the Sainte Chapelle di Paris, temples of design such as the MAK in Vienna, icon venues of contemporary art such as the Chelsea Art Museum in New York, the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski in Warsaw and the MUAR in Moscow; sites of universal expositions such as the one in Hannover, as well as galleries, foundations and theatres in cities such as Rome, Lyon, Ferrara, Buenos Aires, Ljubljana, Frankfurt, London, Naples and Leipzig.
At each exhibit the collection has been enriched by new acquisitions, innovative exhibition designs and trans-architectural installations created together with the museum directors and local artists, by comments and suggestions received from the visitors, and by catalogue entries published in five languages. Each exhibition has provided an opportunity to speak – and to made other speak – the emotional language of light, and at the same time to expand its glossary through encounters and comparisons with the specifics of the places and cultural contexts.
Over one million people have been the Collection’s ‘traveling companions’ on this long and exciting journey.
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ArteFiera Bologna
International Exhibition of Contemporary Art
January 2008
Held in the Lobby of the most important Italian art fair, the exhibition of the collection at ArteFiera 2008 (Bologna) celebrated the winners of the fifth edition of the Targetti Light Art Award. The artworks by Gevorg Zigzabian (Armenia-UK), Alexandra...
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Russia in light
Schusev State Museum of Architecture (MUAR)
June 2006
The splendor of the neoclassical rooms in the Schusev State Museum of Architecture (MUAR) and the enchanting decadence of the adjacent ‘ruina’ are the setting of the Russian stage of the traveling exhibition of the Targetti Light Art Collection.
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Stop in Vienna: a meeting with the Master
MAK Museum
November 2004
“My work consists mainly of giving light the materiality that it is commonly denied. Usually we use it to light things, but for me light is first of all a raw material with which space is constructed. Its power is in its physical presence, in its being...
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