Associazione Culturale Valentina Moncada |
Gallery view during
the exhibition by
Tony Cragg, 1981
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The activity of V.M.C.A. began in 1990 with the exhibition of Anne and Patrick Poirer, two French artists.
The exhibition area is situated in an important historical courtyard in Via Margutta 54, inside a mansion built in the mid-nineteenth Century for artists. Important artists such as Mariano Fortuny, Richard Wagner and Franz Lisztwewr invited by the Marchese Patrizi to live and work in the premises.
Valentina Moncada has presented 38 exhibitions (both solos and group exhibitions), of well known Italian and foreign artists. Artists developed their work in the gallery space creating site specific installations and exhibitions.
Many exhibitions presented at the Cultural Association were supported by international and national institution and firms such as : The British Council, British Airways, Henry Moore Foundation, Mondriaan Foundation, ING Sviluppo Investimenti SIM S.P.A., Reale Ambasciata dei Paesi Bassi a Roma, Ministero degli Affari Esteri Olandese, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Megavideo Audiovisivi Service, Simda, Istituto Giapponese di Cultura a Roma, Polaroid, Gai Mattiolo, Ministère de la Culture et des Communications di Quèbec.
The Association’s activity has always obtained excellent press, important articles appeared on national and international newspaper and reviews. After a period of structural works, the Gallery re-opened on May 1997 with a new program of exhibitions centred around painting and photograpy. The first exhibition of this season inaugurated May 29, a tribute to Andy Warhol, one of the most important Pop-artist.
Valentina Moncada gratuaded in Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts. She taught at the same University and held many lestures at the Metropolitan Museum. She worked as assistant curator at the Guggenheim Museum for a Kandinsky exhibition, and worked for some of the most important galleries such as the Annina Nosei Gallery in New York.
Valentina Moncada is working at present on two important public exhibitions, James Turrellm February 2001; Denise Serrault, une Passante MNAM, Rio de Janeiro, July 2001. She will present the most famous Brazilian contemporary artist, Tunga, in a one-person exhibition at the gallery and is organizing a public performance at the Teatro India, Comune di Roma.
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