In addition to being the founder of PROGETTO LUDOVICO, you also run your own personal art collection. When did this passion begin, and when did the transition occur that led you to identify the idea that gave birth to the platform?

I started collecting while studying at university in my early 20s. It came very naturally to me: I visited many shows and art fairs and did studio visits, acquiring the works that spoke to me the most. In ten years, I’ve put together a group of approximately a hundred works. The idea of creating PROGETTO LUDOVICO came after I finished my internship at Sotheby’s Milan. I was already collecting, and I wanted to create a platform that showed and did research on this very special type of industry-focused art, also offering residency space and supporting the production and exhibition of works in shows curated by very talented curators. The name comes from my first child, who’s called Ludovico and was born in 2021, the same year we started working on the platform. Our first project opened one year later.

Regarding your personal collection, is there a guiding principle, a scheme, or a list you wish to follow, or is the acquisition of a piece entirely dependent on the opportunities that present themselves at the time? Is there a piece you have had your eye on for a long time but have not yet been able to acquire?

I have a very distinctive taste and I do my own research, as every collector should do. In the collection, you can find every type of media, from sculpture to video, from large installations to drawings, but the aesthetic follows a very distinctive style. You can tell that the works were acquired with the same vision. I don’t plan a number of acquisitions a year, but I try to stay within a yearly budget; it all depends on which works you discover and about choices. There are some works by artists that I strongly admire and I have been following for some time now and that I haven’t acquired yet, but I hope to add them to the collection very soon.