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Lia Rumma with her husband Marcello, began to collect works of art in the 1960s. After the death of her husband in 1971, Rumma opened an art gallery, beginning with an exhibition of works by Joseph Kosuth. Since 1999, the gallery has had a permanent base in Milan. In 2004, Lia Rumma curated Anselm Kiefer’s permanent installation I Sette Palazzi Celesti (“The Seven Heavenly Palaces”) at the Hangar Bicocca.

Mimmo Jodice was born in Naples in 1934. An avant-garde photographer since the 1960s, Jodice has played a central role in the cultural movement that has projected Italian photography onto the international stage. In 2006, the University of Naples Federico II awarded him an honorary degree in architecture. In 2016, the Museo Madre in Naples hosted an extensive retrospective of his work.