It’s wonderful to look at art history and see how artists have always explored the feelings, emotions, pleasures and torments of human beings. Era follows era, artists adapt to the social and economic factors of the changing scene, inventing new forms of poetry; but the human heart stays the same, and I can see a common essence, a shared poetic component, in every period of art. These were the thoughts that led me to begin collecting: works from the interwar period at first, then gradually moving toward the artistic languages of the present. I like to think of my collection not as two separate groupings of art, but as a single vast vessel of timeless stories to be explored, where the clearly visible guiding thread that links it all together is the ability to describe the deepest meaning of humanity, its nature and weaknesses.
Giuseppe Iannaccone