The Maserati Quattroporte is representing Italy at the second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Luca Pancrazzi, the Italian artist sought after by the most prominent Italian and European galleries, has chosen the Quattroporte to represent Italy at the second edition of the youngest and most important Asian/Far Eastern Biennale.

The exhibition opened on 3 March and will run until 3 April 2007. The Pavilion Party is on 28 February, 2007 (by invitation only). One-to-one, full-scale, Luca Pancrazzi’s works deal with the relation between reality and imagination. In a fine display of Italian style, elegance and vitality, they will be spread out over two floors in a marvellous building just yards from the Kremlin. Art engaging in the form of objects could not find a better medium than the Maserati Quattroporte, the flagship model and symbol of the renowned Italian brand.

Against an archetype of daily life the artist sets a vision in the form of recycled glass, industrial and broken glass splitting and fragmenting the light and breaking up reflections and forms. At a glance, they are inaccessible volumes of glass on walls, but – thanks to the process that Luca Pancrazzi applies to the construction of the pieces – they lose the objectivity of glass in favour of a retina-like realm of the hidden depths, as archetypes of an inner world. This is how the Maserati Quattroporte becomes a work of Art embodying the whole universe of an unmistakeably unique Italian style.

The highly respected Museum of Modern Art, which is located very close to the Kremlin, in Moscow is based on the original collection of the former Academy of Arts Director Zurab Tsereteli.
 

Today the museum boasts over 1,500 works of 20th century European art covering all the major schools; avant-garde, constructivism, futurism, cubism, realism etc and featuring works by many of this century's major Russian and European artists, including Chagall, Goncharova, Kandinsky, Malevich, Picasso, Shemiakin, Kustodiyev, Petrov-Vodkin, Popova and Konchalovsky amongst others. The museum features regular temporary exhibitions and, along with the new Tretyakov Gallery, is a must-see for all lovers of modern art.

Maseratirundum, as the sculpture is called, will be placed outside the museum as the leading representation of this world. The world of Maserati has always been characterised by high refinement, classic and modern styles, strong emotions and clear aims: a world made of substance and dreams which come true. Maserati cars have always been the epitome of style and refinement, luxury and real exclusivity, objects of elegance and sophistication that are considered unique (not least because they have always been produced in numbers which are a far from the world of mass production), just like the works of art.