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{{Short description|Art museum in Prato}}
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'''Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci''' (Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci) is a [[contemporary art]] centre sited in Viale della Repubblica in [[Prato]], [[Tuscany]], [[Italy]]. The centre is devoted to exhibiting art produced during the past few decades. It houses a [[Museum]] of Contemporary Art, a Centre of Information and Documentation of [[visual arts]] and an education department.<ref name="centropecci.it">[http://www.centropecci.it/htm/ho.htm Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060508013531/http://www.centropecci.it/htm/ho.htm |date=May 8, 2006 }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=About us > History|url=https://www.centropecci.it/en/about-us/history|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-17|website=Centro Pecci|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919081714/https://www.centropecci.it/en/about-us/history |archive-date=2020-09-19 }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Cristiana Perrella appointed new Director of the Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci|url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/177855/cristiana-perrella-appointed-new-director-of-the-centro-per-l-arte-contemporanea-luigi-pecci/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-17|website=e-flux|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310043347/http://www.e-flux.com:80/announcements/177855/cristiana-perrella-appointed-new-director-of-the-centro-per-l-arte-contemporanea-luigi-pecci/ |archive-date=2018-03-10 }}</ref>
Since its
== Building ==
Originally designed by architect [[Italo Gamberini]], in 2016 it was expanded by Maurice Nio, who designed a U-shaped building with an outdoor [[amphitheater]] with a seat capacity of 800 people at the centre.<ref>[http://www.planetware.com/prato/museum-of-contemporary-art-i-to-prcac.htm Prato — Museum of Contemporary Art]</ref> The new building includes 3000 square meters of exhibition space, an archive, a library, an auditorium-cinema, a bookshop, and a restaurant. In addition to the permanent contemporary art collection, the centre includes a [[sculpture]] garden and a space designated to the installation of temporary exhibitions.
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="345" heights="215" caption="
File:PratoPecci11.jpg|The new building
File:Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci - veduta aerea.jpg|alt=The new building - project|The new building under construction
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File:Progetto per il nuovo museo pecci 01.JPG|The new building - project
File:PratoPecci17.jpg|
File:Museo pecci.jpg|The old building
</gallery>
== Collection ==
The collection includes over 1000 works by more than 300 artists, among which sculptures, installations, environments, paintings and videos made from the 1950s to the present, mostly acquired as the result of the exhibitions organized
The collection includes works by [[Vito Acconci]], [[Nobuyoshi Araki]], [[Stefano Arienti]], Marco Bagnoli, Rossella Biscotti, Botto & Bruno, [[Paolo Canevari]], [[Loris Cecchini]], [[Enzo Cucchi]], [[Jan Fabre]], [[Lucio Fontana]], Marco Gastini, [[Piero Gilardi]], Dmitry Gutov, Emilio Isgrò, Ilya Kabakov, [[Anish Kapoor]], [[Jannis Kounellis]], Barbara Kruger, Francesco Lo Savio, Sol LeWitt, Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Eliseo Mattiacci, Fausto Melotti, Mario Merz, Liliana Moro, Robert Morris, Ugo Mulas, Bruno Munari, Vik Muniz, [[Maurizio Nannucci]], Hermann Nitsch, Julian Opie, Anatolij Osmolovskij, [[Mimmo Paladino]], [[Giulio Paolini,]] Gianni Pettena, [[Michelangelo Pistoletto]], Anne e Patrick Poirier, Remo Salvadori, [[Julian Schnabel]], [[Daniel Spoerri]], Mauro Staccioli, Superstudio, David Tremlett, UFO, VALIE EXPORT, Massimo Vitali, Yelena & Viktor Vorobyev, Erwin Wurm, Gilberto Zorio.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Collection |url=http://centropecci.it/en/about-us/collection |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=Centro Pecci |language=en}}</ref>
== History ==
The centre was founded in 1988 by curator [[Amnon Barzel]] and industrialist Enrico Pecci in memory of his son Luigi Pecci. Contributions to the foundation of the centre were made by the Prato town council, private companies and members of the public.<ref name="centropecci.it" />
== Directors ==
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* Marco Bazzini (2007-2013)<ref name=":0" />
* Fabio Cavallucci (2014-2018)<ref name=":0" />
* Cristina Perrella (2018-2021)<ref name=":1" />
* Stefano Collicelli Cagol (2021)
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* [http://www.centropecci.it/ Centre website]
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