Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, one of the top art collectors in Europe, will collaborate with New York’s New Museum for a series of commissions, with the first set to be done by Diego Marcon, an Italian artist known for his uncanny videos.
The New Museum is currently undergoing a renovation and expansion, and is slated to open this fall, though it has not yet announced an opening date. It closed last spring to begin adding a seven-story annex to its home on Manhattan’s Bowery.
“Collaborating with other institutions has always been a characteristic of my foundation,” Sandretto Re Rebaudengo told the Art Newspaper, which first reported the news. She runs a Turin-based foundation in her name and ranks on ARTnews’s annual Top 200 Collectors list.
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She is also a member of the New Museum’s International Leadership Council, a group of funders from abroad who are invited to help underwrite projects at the institution.
The Marcon work, titled Krapfen, was also co-commissioned by Chicago’s Renaissance Society, Paris’s Lafayette Anticipations, and the Vega Foundation, an organization run by Canadian collector Elisa Nuyten. Krapfen will debut this week at the Renaissance Society, which bills the work as a “musical dance film” and “an encounter between the golden age of American animation and Italian opera.”
Krapfen’s New Museum run is not currently listed on the museum’s schedule. On tap during the museum’s opening will be “New Humans: Memories of the Future,” a vast exhibition about body-oriented art, as well as commissions by Klara Hosnedlová, Sarah Lucas, and Tschabalala Self.