While visiting the Bershires, I had the opportunity to cross paths with Fabrice Marcolini, a curator, art historian, fine art specialist, former gallerist, and lifelong collector. What brings you to Mass Moca ? “You mean the largest contemporary art Museum in the world “? I’d say a quasi fatal attraction!
When riding on a Motorcycle across New England, no point is too remote to enjoy great curation in an amazing industrial archeological site that displays a number of my personal favourite artists with depth of offerings and exceptional selection.
Which artist are you referring to? Sol Lewitt : whose minimal collection of works is displayed in a maximal way in multiple environments, guarantees a full appreciation of his art and scope. Furthermore, the specially created 10.000 sq. ft. un-pillared space to host a weighted selection of works by Anselm Kiefer that gives you the feeling of entering an Art cathedral within the Hall foundation space, inviting extra elements of smell and temperature, truly exceptional!
What does Fabrice Marcolini concentrate on these days? “I am conducting a thorough inventory of the art and books collection I have amassed during the different iterations of my professional life, and that is taking some time, given the numbers: over 2,000 artworks ranging from delicate watercolours to massive 12-ton concrete and Steel installations, and over 6000 art books.
Plus, I am quietly repatriating to Canada a number of exceptional paintings, sculptures, and drawings of one of my heroes of the postwar Parisian art scene, Jean-Paul Riopelle.
In the meantime, I have found a new location in Toronto where to display art in the context of a very unique community that harbours artists and art lovers…
still secret for the moment , ha ; ) but to be unveiled this coming fall .
While we say our goodbye, I ask Fabrice what was is favourite discovery here?
“ I think I was positively impress by the scale and the scope of Vincent Valdez’s 20-year survey exhibition ‘Just a dream, ‘ that addresses American politic today as viewed by this Mexican-American artist born in 1977, that is on view until march 2026.”
