MicroCollection Museum
Elisa Bollazzi, courtesy of Luca Scarabelli
Someone said: plant a seed and grow a community
I say: plant an art-seed and grow an art-community
MicroCollection museum was founded by Elisa Bollazzi, an Italian artist and writer, in 1990 while she was visiting the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and, almost by chance, picked up a few fragments that had accidentally fallen onto the floor from a fantastic work by Anish Kapoor.
Those microparticles, overlooked by everyone else, represented the intuition of a new form of creation. Since then she has been collecting art fragments with the help of dozens spontaneous collaborators.
Now the Museum counts hundreds art-particles. Young, mid-career and renowned Italian and international artists are represented in the collection, like Beuys, Cragg, Long, Burri, Fontana, Paolini, etc.. The art fragments can be viewed under a microscope in special Cabinets de regard itinerant all over the world, so the public can experience the invisible and become aware of the creative freedom.
In 2008 Elisa Bollazzi gave life to the so-called Art sowings in areas, in Italy and abroad, cultivated with microparticles of artworks whose titles refer to the botanical world, such as 3-metre Tree by Penone, Watermelons by Gilardi, etc.. The Art Sowings constitute utopic art-gardens, thought-provoking spaces, meeting points where the artwork expands the boundaries of art, stimulates creativity, and changes the way we look at the “art system”.
In 2012 she started the Guided Tours to the Art Sowings, an innovative education project held by art students, critics, art historians involved in a participative approach of learning and teaching history of art. She is now writing a book about the history of Microcollection.
