The project aims to promote the work of contemporary artists through the organisation of exhibitions and the purchase of works that will go onto form the "Acqua dell'Elba Collection"
The first work to join the Collection, in 2004, was "Cellula" ("Cell") by Walter Puppo, an element that has represented the focal point of the artist's twenty years of research, a "simple form that seems to reproduce the solitude and silence commonly associated with an island". The goal we set ourselves, right from that first exhibition, was to work closely with artists whose background and work reflected the character and soul of the Island of Elba: a love for this unique and extraordinary land, but also for insularity and the sea in general.
It was with this in mind that, further emphasising the beauty of insularity and in particular that of Elba, we dedicated our second event the following year to Alex Rinesh who, with his work "la leggenda di Acqua dell'Elba", took us on an imaginary journey to Napoleonic Elba to rediscover the mythological origins of Acqua dell'Elba.
The protagonists of subsequent editions have included Helga Merghental (2006) and her extraordinary "Fiore di Ferro" (which saw her devote much of her work to depicting the island's mining structures), Rudy Pulcinelli with his "Forme Arcane" (2007), Marcello d'Arco's "La pietra e l'acqua" (2008), Marianne Kipp's "Trittico" (2009) and the stills and essences of Luciano Regoli's "Acqua dell'Elba" (2010).
From 2011 to 2013 the exhibitions were curated in collaboration with Nuovospazioartecontemporanea, enabling us to become acquainted with the extraordinary talents of Andrea Mariconti, with his "Ekumene Konis" (2011), Angelo Palazzini with "Una notte... nell'Acqua dell'Elba" (2012) and Mario Branca with his "Un tuffo al cuore" (2013)
From 2014 the shows were once again organised exclusively by Acqua dell'Elba with exhibitions by Nena & Tomy (2014), Silvano Campeggi (2014), Roberto Ridi (2016), Riccardo Mazzei (2016), Mario Apone (2016), Pablo Massa (2018) and Alfredo Gioventù (2019).
