The Panza Collection

Ten years after the death of the well-known art collector Giuseppe Panza di Biumo and twenty years since his collection at Villa Menafoglio Litta Panza was opened to the public, the book describing the collection, conceived and created by Panza himself, is being reissued.

The Panza Collection features over 150 works by American artists, inspired by the themes of light and colour, living in harmony in the age-old spaces of the Villa, alongside the Renaissance furnishings and the fine collections of African and pre-Columbian art.

Panza's book—also published by Skira—is now re-issued in a slipcase together with a second volume that describes the evolution of the Villa and the Collection from 2002 to 2020. It details the new displays, new acquisitions, and the most important exhibitions of the last twenty years, which took place under the expert management of Fondo Ambiente Italiano (the Italian National Trust).

It features site-specific installations by Robert Irwin, James Turrell, and Robert Wilson, the spectacular rooms of light by Dan Flavin, and the moving tribute to Ground Zero by Wim Wenders. A large photographic section is devoted to the centuries-old Italian gardens, embellished by environmental art installations.