Spalletti Ettore
Ettore Spalletti (1940-2019) was born in Cappelle sul Tavo (Pescara) where he spent his entire life. Important exhibitions have been dedicated to Spalletti at the international level over the past 40 years, most recently at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome (2021), the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco in the Principality of Monaco (2019), Palazzo Cini in Venice (2015) and a retrospective presented simultaneously in three Italian museums: MADRE, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples; GAM, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, and MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome (2014).
Other important solo exhibitions include: GNAM - Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome (2010); Museum Kurhaus, Kleve (2009); Villa Medici, Académie de France, Rome (2006); Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2005); Castello di Rivoli - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin (2004); Fundación la Caixa, Madrid (2000); Museo di Capodimonte, Naples (1999); Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg (1998); MUHKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp (1995); Guggenheim Museum, New York (1993); Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (1991); De Appel, Amsterdam (1989); Kunsteverein, Munich (1989); Portikus, Frankfurt (1989); Halles d'art contemporain, Rennes (1988); Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent (1983); Museum Folkwang, Essen (1982). Spalletti was invited several times to Documenta in Kassel (1982, 1992) and the Venice Biennale (1982, 1993, 1995, 1997). Permanent installations include the Salle des dèparts (1996) for the Hôpital Raymond-Poincaré in Garches - Paris, and the Cappella (2016) created together with the architect Patrizia Leonelli for the Casa di cura Villa Serena, in Città Sant'Angelo - Pescara.
