This year the Bank will be present with an exhibition project dedicated to Robert Rauschenberg - on the centenary of his birth - curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, Associate Curator of the Intesa Sanpaolo Art and Modern Collection.

The exhibition starts in the Bank's lounge area where the American artist's masterpiece Blue Exit will be on display, an extraordinary example of the ‘Combine Painting’ series that consecrated the American master as one of the protagonists of great international contemporary painting.

The exhibition will have an ideal continuation in the vault of the Gallerie d'Italia, exceptionally open to the public by appointment on the days of miart, where three other works by the artist selected from the Luigi and Peppino Agrati Collection, a prestigious collection of contemporary art now part of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group's collections thanks to the legacy of Cavalier Luigi Agrati, will be on display: Scripture, 1974, Gulf, 1969, Clearing, 1969.

The initiative allows a free visit to a place of extraordinary beauty: the vault of the Gallerie d'Italia in Piazza Scala. Designed in the early years of the last century by Luca Beltrami to contain the safety deposit boxes of the Banca Commerciale Italiana, the space is dominated by a singular and symmetrical compositional design, supported by two imposing columns of an explicit Doric order, with pulvinos with triglyphs. Today, the place, which can normally only be visited by appointment with guided tours, no longer contains safe deposit boxes, but holds something equally precious: around 500 paintings belonging to the Intesa Sanpaolo collection. The works of art are hung on sliding mesh panels, with an optimal system for archiving and conservation, designed to keep the works in view, almost as if to create small, unexpected exhibition itineraries.

Once again this year Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking - the Group's bank dedicated to managing the financial, insurance and pension needs of private customers, as well as the overall management and valorisation of their assets - will be present at miart in the Group's lounge area with meetings dedicated to the art advisory service, aimed at those who consider art as an opportunity to diversify their assets and want to avail themselves of highly specialised consultancy in the selection, valuation and management of collections or individual works of art.

Also in the Intesa Sanpaolo exhibition space will be an Allemandi corner where, in addition to the books and catalogues of the prestigious publishing house recently acquired by the Group together with Compagnia di San Paolo and Fondazione CR Cuneo, it will also be possible to consult and read Il Giornale dell'Arte, a further element in Intesa Sanpaolo's commitment to art and culture.

Intesa Sanpaolo's long-standing link with miart testifies to the Bank's constant support for the cultural development of the area, with the aim of consolidating Milan's centrality in the national and international panorama of modern and contemporary art and offering the city a further driver of growth and economic, cultural and civil development.

THE MEETINGS

VALUE OF ART AND NEW PERSPECTIVES OF COLLECTING

Three meetings with journalists, tax experts and collectors to discover the novelties of a sector undergoing profound transformation through the voice of its protagonists, curated by Alberto Fiz and Marina Mojana.

Friday 4 April 2025 - 5.30 p.m.

Art market scenarios and the role of the press

Luca Zuccala, director of Il Giornale dell'Arte

Saturday 5 April 2025 - 5.30 p.m.

Taxation for the collector: prospects of reform

Marco Cerrato, Partner of Studio Maisto e Associati, Milan

Sunday 6 April 2025 - 11.30 a.m.

From Cindy Sherman to Francesco Vezzoli. Discovering a great collection

Giuseppe Iannaccone, lawyer and miart collector