Collezione Maramotti Collezione Maramotti The Collezione Maramotti is the private collection of contemporary art of Achille Maramotti, who founded Max Mara. It is housed in the former premises of the company in Reggio Emilia, in Emilia Romagna in central Italy. It contains some two hundred works, and is open to visitors by appointment only. It also organises temporary exhibitions. Among the artists represented in the collection are Vito Acconci, Francis Bacon, Basquiat, Alberto Burri, Francesco Clemente, Tony Cragg, , Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Mario Merz, Luigi Ontani, Mimmo Paladino, Tom Sachs, Mario Schifano, Julian Schnabel and Bill Viola. The gallery awards the
Achille Grandi 1944, was one of the promoter and signer of the Pact of Rome which originated the "unified CGIL" and was the germ of all post war Italian the trade-unionism. In the August 1944 he founded the Associazioni Cristiane dei Lavoratori Italiani (ACLI) becoming just for 6 months its president. As member of Democrazia Cristiana in 1946 was elected at the Constituent Assembly of Italy. He died two months later in Desio nearby Milan, aged 63. Achille Grandi Achille Grandi (August 24, 1883 – September 28, 1946) was an Italian politician trade unionist and a catholic-syndicalist. Grandi was born in Como,