The MAON, or Museum of 19th and 20th Century Art, was inaugurated on May 4, 2004 on the initiative of the “A. Capizzano” in Rende (Cs), which is named after the artist Achille Capizzano from Rende, and was founded in 1997 on the initiative of Sandro Principe, a former member of parliament and mayor of Rende.

The activity of the MAON and the “Capizzano” Center

The publication of catalogues and monographic volumes has given the MAON exhibitions the right documentary and informative support (“L’Animo e lo Sguardo”, “Caro Novecento”, “Mediterraneo d'arte”, “Moderno estremo”, “Camere con vista”, “Art Box”, “Arte in Calabria 1960-2000”, “Zang Sud Sud”, “Secondo Novecento”, “From the Second Futurism to Concrete Art and Surroundings”, “Parti”), as well as on artists of the last two centuries (“Rubens Santoro”, “Umberto Boccioni”, “Giorgio De Chirico”, “Andrea Alfano”, “Achille Capizzano”, “Enzo Benedetto”, “Luigi Di Sarro”, “Mimmo Rotella”, “Domenico Lo Russo”, “Luigi Magli”, ”Francomà”, “Giuseppe Gallo”, “Antonio Corpora”, “Giuseppe De Gregorio”, “Fiorenzo Zaffina”, “Antonio Pujia Veneziano”).

In particular, from 2008 to 2009, the MAON hosted a collection of 85 drawings, pastels, watercolors and engravings by Umberto Boccioni, which had previously belonged to the American collector Lydia Winston Malbin and returned to Italy in 1996.

The video section was born from the need to have a Documentation Center on Contemporary Art in the area, which can offer an overview of the current production of national and international video art.