Novecento Mai Visto

Daimler Contemporary

Tiergarten | Berlin | Germany

08 Mar, 2013 - 30 Jun, 2013

The unusual exhibition, entitled Novecento mai visto (The 20th century as never seen) before, includes some 230 works by around 110 international artists, which range from 1909 up to now. Alongside classic examples of Constructivism and Concrete Art through Minimalism and Conceptual Tendencies the exhibition will also present installations, photographs and videos by renowned contemporary artists. The exhibition is further enhanced by two new commissioned works by Nic Hess and Luca Trevisani, which will appear in specific areas of the museum. Alongside the Daimler exhibition there will be another exhibition dedicated entirely to Italian art, which is titled From De Chirico to Cattelan, featuring works of the last century, which have been acquired by public and private collections in Brescia. In the history of Museo di Santa Giulia, Novecento mai visto will be the first comprehensive presentation of contemporary art.

John M Armleder

Avec les deux lustres (FS); 1987-1993

Acryl auf Leinwand,

300 x 425 cm

Novecento mai visto is an exhibition project conceived by the Daimler Art Collection, which was founded in 1977. The internationally renowned corporate collection comprises some 2000 works focusing on the abstract avant-garde, young media artists as well as commissioned works around automobile themes and includes 30 large-scale sculptures in various publicly accessible locations. It focuses on the area of twentieth-century Abstract Art: from the circle of artists around Adolf H枚lzel in Stuttgart in the nineteen-tens, Bauhaus, Constructivism, Concrete Art, the European ZERO avant-garde, Minimalism, Conceptual tendencies, and Neo Geo, all the way to the most recent contemporary art. The collection has so far been seen in temporary exhibitions in international museums among others in Singapore and S茫o Paolo, Tokyo, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Buenos Aires and Vienna.

In the beginning of 2012 the Mercedes-Benz Museum Stuttgart started a strategic partnership with the Museo Mille Miglia in Brescia, which aims to highlight their common passions in Car Culture. Since then the Mercedes-Benz Champion Cars have been exhibited at the Museo Mille Miglia in spring 2012, and on October 9, 2012, the opening of the exhibition "Mille Miglia - Passion and Rivalry" has been celebrated in the Mercedes-Benz Museum Stuttgart. This cooperation also includes joined activities with Museo di Santa Giulia, the leading arts institution in Brescia, followed by the obvious initial idea to showcase some highlighting art works from the Daimler Art Collection in Brescia.