Palazzo delle Papesse, already home to an important Contemporary Art Center between 1998 and 2008, will reopen after the summer with an exhibition by Julio Le Parc
Intuition”it not only represents a big step for our society, but it is an investment made for the world of culture. Palazzo delle Papesse will dialogue with all Italian and international cultural institutions and invite its guests to have a glimpse of the Future”. With these words Beppe Costa, President and CEO of Opera Laboratories, announced the purchase of the historic building in Siena from the Bank of Italy. Headquarters between 1998 and 2008 of a Contemporary Art Center established himself among the most dynamic on the Italian scene. Seeing artists of the caliber of Christian Boltanski, Annette Messager, Paolo Canevari, Jim Dine, Nari Ward, Jason Middlebrook pass through its rooms.
The leading company in Italy in museum management will work to reposition the building, among the most iconic in the city of Siena, at the center of Italian cultural institutions. “A great opportunity for the city. I am happy that this news arrives on the same day in which we presented the cultural programming of Santa Maria della Scala”, commented the mayor of Siena, Nicoletta Fabio. “A new vital, dynamic and constructive lifeblood is forming in this city, thanks to the synergy between all the actors involved”.
A few months to go
The reopening project is already ready Palace of the High Priestess. Which will see the inauguration of the exhibition – in collaboration with Galleria Continua – of immediately after the summer Julio Le Parc, Argentine sculptor and painter, a leading figure in kinetic art and Op Art, as well as being a firm defender of human rights. Julio Le Parc’s works are exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world. And his influence on contemporary art is recognized internationally.
In 2025, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the first Sienese exhibition and thirty years after the death of Hugo Pratt, a large exhibition dedicated to the cartoonist and writer “father” of Corto Maltese will be organized instead. The exhibition, curated by Patrizia Zanotti and Patrick Amsellem, with the project by architect Giovanni Mezzedimi, will be produced by Opera Laboratori. And it will be the first stop on a journey through important Italian museums.
