Galleria Massimo Minini

We can start talking about history – even for an art gallery – only after a great deal of time has passed. Unfortunately, galleries don’t last long. When I look back and try to recall gallery names, it’s a bit of a blur. A good gallery often has a short life, and a terrible one sometimes has a long life. What’s hard is maintaining quality over a long period. I think I can safely say that the gallery bearing my name has managed to keep the stakes high from 1973 to today. What alchemy is needed to win the race against time? Time flies, of course, but what counts today, more than fleeting time, is the constantly changing scenario. Art transmuting from one attitude to another. How do we pursue the “isms,” the innovations, the changes? While every one of us has been deeply involved in an idea, we all find it hard to admit that its exact opposite has the same value, and yet that’s the way of the world. To bear witness to this continuum of contradiction, a gallery owner has to rely on others to help him choose. And so MASSIMO MININI slowly becomes FRANCESCA MININI. But then the old gallery exhibits new works by young artists… and the young gallery exhibits historic works. The cards are shuffled into the deck. Who’ll have the winning hand?