Francesco Guzzetti, co-author of the catalogue for the Sonnabend Collection Mantova, published by Marsilio Arte, explains why the collector Ileana Sonnabend ‒ to whose collection the recent cultural centre in Mantua is dedicated ‒ was so important to the development of contemporary art

A bridge between Europe and the United States: this is how Francesco Guzzetti, associate professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Florence, co-author and contributor to the catalogue of the Sonnabend Collection Mantova – the museum inaugurated at the end of 2025 in the renovated Palazzo della Ragione – describes the work of Ileana Sonnabend.

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Cover photo: Francesco Guzzetti at the Sonnabend Collection Mantova © Zampediverse