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The Gori Collection at the Fattoria di Celle is located at Santomato, in the Province of Pistoia, Tuscany, in Italy. The contemporary art collection is located at the historic Villa Celle, and features site-specific works by internationally renown artists such as Robert Morris, Richard Serra, and Dani Karavan.

Historical background

Although documents and existing evidence indicate that a construction already existed on the site in the year 1000, the Villa Celle in its present form, like the chapel next to it, was built by Cardinal Carlo Agostino Fabroni from Pistoia, a great patron of the arts and an important figure in the ecclesiastical hierarchy.

In the 1800s the property was acquired by the Caselli family who commissioned architect Giovanni Gambini to create an English-style park which extends over a surface area of about 20 hectars behind the villa and is an extraordinary example of the Romantic ideal of nature. The unique complex of nineteenth century follies that were constructed in the park (such as the aviary designed by the poet and architect Bartolomeo Sestini, the Tea House, the Egyptian Monument, the cliffs with their waterfalls, the two lakes, etc.) seem prophetic forerunners of the installations of contemporary art added in recent years.^[1]

The contemporary art collection

For over forty years, Giuliano Gori's collection has developed through his acquaintance and friendship with artists who have been working to renew the artistic vocabulary of the age. By the end of the 1950s, the collector needed to find a suitable space to house his vast collection. A small palazzo was built to order in the historical center of Prato and soon became a meeting point for exponents and enthusiasts of the visual arts up until the end of the 1960s. The growing number of artworks and the desire to commission pieces from artists led to the search for spaces more suitable to the new needs.

In the spring of 1970 the collection was moved to the Fattoria di Celle property, the Gori family's new residence. Finally a project, which had been taking form for about ten years, could be put into action: to find out how contemporary artists would react when commissioned to do a work where space was no longer to be used as a simple container for art, but was to become an integral and unchanging part of the art work.

Even the pre-existing structures of the Romantic park, whether erected for religious purposes or more simply as pleasure spots, had been built like true site‑specific art works. The chapel, the neogothic Tea House and the large aviary are all examples of this. The latter, with its interior views and vegetation, could be seen as an example of the most successful kind of environmental art and, as such, becomes a symbol of the new art that is created at Celle. By the end of the 1970s, the works necessary to consolidate and restore the historical buildings were finished and the various array of trees had been cared for: it was time to study the feasibility of a plan which was to lead the collector down unexplored and exciting roads.^[2]

Site‑specific art

In the 1970s, shows in Kassel and Venice presented some artworks created specifically for the exhibition spaces by artists invited for the occasion. They mostly used materials which only lasted as long as the exhibition. At Celle, Gori developed the idea of proposing permanent installations which could be created either outdoors in the park or inside the various buildings. Since he had no models of reference, his first step was to test the validity of his ideas with internationally qualified experts. Amnon Barzel, who was ready and willing to supervise the building of the works, was named curator of the project and an advisory committee was constituted: Renato Barilli, Francesco Gurrieri, Knud Jensen and Manfred Schneckenburger. The experts gave their enthusiastic consensus to the program and the first artists were invited. June 12, 1982 witnessed the inauguration of the first nine site‑specific pieces in the park and six installations on the top floor of the villa.

Today at the Fattoria di Celle there are seventy installations of which forty are outdoors and the rest inside the buildings. Still more are in progress. But most importantly, the project has given rise to a new workshop for creativity that continues to produce and experiment new vocabularies expressed in the various disciplines of contemporary art.^[3]

References

1. ^The Collezione Gori Official Website, http://www.goricoll.it, 2013
2. ^The Collezione Gori Official Website, http://www.goricoll.it, 2013
3. ^The Collezione Gori Official Website, http://www.goricoll.it, 2013