PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea

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In 1947 the Municipality of Milan, pressed by the need to find a new exhibition space for contemporary art, focused its attention on the site of the ex-stables of Villa Belgiojosa, destroyed by bombing in 1943, even though questions had first been raised over the future of the neo-classical Villa designed in 1790 by Leopoldo Pollack as far back as the 1920's when it was donated to the City by the Savoys. It was decided to use the Villa as a site for the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, although the exhibition spaces were too small to house the more recent works of art and at the time such a museum of contemporary art seemed to have potential for growth. Projects for the ex-stables site were based on two basic approaches: one favoured faithful reconstruction of the original architecture with modifications to the interior, while the other tended towards the construction of a completely new building entirely designed for the needs and functions of a museum.

represented artists

Giacomo Balla      Umberto Boccioni      Massimo Campigli      Felice Casorati      Paul Cézanne      Giorgio de Chirico      Raoul Dufy      Renato Guttuso      Albert Marquet      Henri Matisse

Giorgio Morandi      Pablo Picasso      Fausto Pirandello      Jean Renoir      Georges Rouault      Mario Sironi      Vincent van Gogh      Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo