Collezione Giuseppe Iannaccone

The Giuseppe Iannaccone Collection was established in the early 1990s and can currently be divided, temporally, into two collections: that of the 1930s and that of contemporary art. The collector primarily focused on expressionist artists active in Italy between the wars, detached from the official art inspired by Margherita Sarfatti, as they could narrate an authentic and personal story of those years. The collection of modern art spans from 1920 to 1945 and includes artists who poetically depicted the state of mind of Italians during that difficult twenty-year period through the use of color and a studied alteration of forms, completely detached from the canons of "Italian Novecento." This section features fundamental representations from the Corrente movement, the Via Cavour School, the Roman School, Lombard Chiarism, and the Six from Turin. Specifically, the collection begins with an Ottone Rosai from 1920 titled "L’attesa," which describes the state of mind of Italians in the post-war period awaiting a better future, and ideally concludes with a Ziveri from 1945, celebrating the end of World War II.
Since the early 2000s, inspired by the same need that motivated the search for works from the 1930s, namely the love for art that reflects the human spirit, the collector has focused more on contemporary art, seeking works from artists characterized by a lyrical and poetic vision of human existence. The temporal debut of the contemporary collection is marked by Cindy Sherman's Film Still from 1979, extending to very young artists with works dated 2023; throughout this latter collection, there is a strong female presence and an attachment to art that is social and brings to the surface the joys and dramas of contemporary existence, both in Italy and in other geographical areas.
The collection currently consists of about five hundred works: approximately one hundred twenty-five pieces concerning modern art (from 1920 to 1945) and well over three hundred fifty works regarding contemporary art.