Magazzino of Italian Art is introduced to the Hudson Valley community by the featured article in the Highlands Current |   September 20, 2016

The Highlands Current announces the launch of Magazzino of Italian Art, an art warehouse and library built by Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu of Garrison, NY to house their personal collection of postwar and contemporary Italian art.

Magazzino is located in Cold Spring, NY and will be open in summer 2017 by appointment only and there will be no charge for admission.

“The idea is not only to contain the art, but also to share it, to host students and scholars,” said Magazzino’s director, Vittorio Calabrese.

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The new building under construction at Magazzino of Italian Art (Photo by Marco Anelli)

Designed by Spanish architect Miguel Quismondo, the complex consists of two buildings, one is the renovated Cyberchron space, the other is new. The buildings are linked by a glass connector and separated by a courtyard. The name Magazzino, which means warehouse in Italian, was deliberately chosen to avoid any association with a museum, galleries or commercial enterprises of any kind and to indicate that it is a private space.

A new Constellation by Melissa McGill twinkles in the Hudson Valley |   September 12, 2016

Constellation is a large–scale sculptural installation by the Beacon based artist Melissa McGill which brings together light and form, history and phenomenology. A series of 17 slender tapered aluminum poles are installed above the decaying ruins of Bannerman Castle, a fantastic castle built by an eccentric arms dealer at the turn of the 20th century on Pollepel Island, in the Hudson Valley. Small lights (solar powered LEDs) are installed on the top of each pole, creating a visual vertical rhythm around the ruin drawing the eye upward while accentuating ideas of absence versus presence.

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Constellation

Hovering around the perimeter of the Bannerman castle ruin, these lighted points refer to features of the structure still standing, as well as those details which no longer exist—creating a new constellation connecting past and present through this inspiring light-based public art project—bringing new energy to this majestic part of the Hudson River, and the Hudson Highlands State Park.

Constellation is currently on view nightly until 2017. Further information about the project are available here including a video featuring Constellation.