Marco Anelli Building Magazzino

Marco Anelli: Building Magazzino 2014–2024 is an exhibition showcasing photographs taken over the course of the past decade by Italian-born, New York-based photographer Marco Anelli.

Commissioned by Magazzino, Anelli’s photographs chronicle the transformation of the museum from a conceptual vision for a center for Italian Post-war art into its current form—a campus with two buildings, a renowned permanent collection, eagerly anticipated temporary exhibitions, and the first and only research center of its kind in the US.

Curated by Paola Mura in close coordination with Anelli, the exhibition will be on view in Magazzino’s new Robert Olnick Pavilion and present around 50 exceptional, large-scale images capturing the conception and construction of the Museum, including images of its buildings in progress and portraits of the dozens of construction workers and craftspeople who together built the institution.

Marco Anelli says, “These photographs documenting the history of Magazzino capture the sense of pride that the men and women who literally made this Museum carried with them to their work site each and every day. It was an honor to chronicle their work and to see them raise Magazzino from an idea into a reality.” Anelli’s portfolio, which he completed with the benefit of unrestricted access to Magazzino, documents the Museum’s construction process in its entirety, from its early conceptual stages in 2014 to its present-day existence across five acres of land in Cold Spring, New York.

The photographs trace the history of Magazzino’s main building (previously used as a milk pasteurization facility before being retrofitted in 2017 by Spanish architect Miguel Quismondo to house the Museum’s permanent collection of Arte Povera works) and continue up until today with the recent construction of the freestanding Robert Olnick Pavilion, designed by Alberto Campo Baeza with Quismondo and dedicated to temporary exhibitions and providing programming space. The exhibition will feature large-format photographs, including portraits of local construction workers and images of the Magazzino campus at various stages of construction, from the initial demolition in 2014 to the 2015 groundbreaking, and into the museum’s current existence.

Client: Magazzino Italian Art Location: Gallery 1 & Gallery 3 Robert Olnick Pavilion Completion Date: August 2024 Architecture: Miguel Quismondo, AIA Team: Gloria Saá García, William Mulvihill Curator and Exhibition Designer: Paola Mura Photography: Marco Anelli