NANCY OLNICK & GIORGIO SPANU with Jennifer Stockman & Joachim Pissarro | The Brooklyn Rail

Word count: 5210 Paragraphs: 58 Portraits of Nancy Olnick & Giorgio Spanu, pencil on paper by Phong H. Bui. Magazzino Italian Art, in Cold Spring, New York, is a museum and research center devoted to postwar and contemporary Italian art, above all Arte Povera. It grew out of the collection of Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu, who also collect Murano glass, Italian ceramics, artist-made jewelry, and Art Deco furniture, and who opened Magazzino in 2017 in the former Cyberchron factory and warehouse. In the conversation that follows, Stockman and Pissarro speak with Olnick and Spanu about how a visit to the Castello di Rivoli set them on the path to Arte Povera. They describe their relationships with designers Massimo and Lella Vignelli, and curator Germano Celant, as well as their work with the architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo. Finally they consider what is to be done to secure Magazzino’s future. Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, NY. Courtesy MQ Architecture.

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