Archive
The Ugo La Pietra Archive records the maestro’s works and papers, structured by discipline: Art, Architecture, Design, Applied Arts, Music, Teaching and Publishing.
In 2021, the Comitato per l’Archivio Ugo La Pietra was established in Milan, promoted by the artist himself and a committee composed of Lucio La Pietra, Simona Cesana, and Marco Meneguzzo.
The Archive
The Ugo La Pietra Archive has established its institutional form through the creation of a Committee whose purposes, in addition to disseminating the Master’s multidisciplinary path, include the archiving, cataloging, certification, and authentication of his works: paintings, drawings, projects, objects, furnishings, photographs, writings, editorial and graphic works (magazines, books, catalogs, posters…), and educational activities.
The Works
The Archive preserves a coherent and vast collection of materials that are constantly evolving and updating. The material belongs to various disciplines and research sectors: architecture, design, art, artistic craftsmanship, installations, cinema, photography, music, education. Thanks to Ugo La Pietra’s relentless cultural promotion activities, the Archive also holds many documents and testimonies from other authors, from the 1960s to the present day. The library houses, in addition to a vast collection of publications by other authors, many monographs dedicated to him, including the magazines he directed: In, Inpiù, Brera Flash, Fascicolo, Area, Abitare con Arte, Artigianato.
The Institutions
In addition to the numerous and prestigious private collections that host some of Ugo La Pietra’s works, both Italian and international, part of the works have been incorporated into major Italian and international museums, including: MoMA, New York; SF MOMA, San Francisco; Centre Pompidou MNAM, Paris; Frac Centre, Orléans; Musée d’art moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole; Musée museum départemental des Hautes-Alpes à Gap; Beinecke Library, Yale University; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Osaka; ADAM, Brussels; Universalmuseum Joanneum – Neue Galerie, Graz; MSU / Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Museo del Novecento, Milan; MAXXI, Rome; ASAC Archivio Storico Arti Contemporanee Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia; Accademia Carrara, Bergamo; Museo del Design, Triennale di Milano; ADI Design Museum, Milan; CIAC, Foligno; CSAC, Parma; Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, Milan; Museo delle Ceramiche, Faenza; Museo delle Ceramiche di Montelupo; Museion, Bolzano; Palazzo Collicola, Museo Caradente, Spoleto; Museo Duca di Martina, Naples; MAGA, Gallarate; MAC, Lissone; Museo della ceramica di Mondovì; Museo della Ceramica di Savona.
Committee for the Ugo La Pietra Archive
Promoters: Lucio La Pietra (President), Ugo La Pietra, Simona Cesana (Secretary, Treasurer), Marco Meneguzzo
Scientific Advisors: Francesca Benedetto (Harvard University), Marie Ange Brayer (Centre Pompidou), François Burkhardt, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Beppe Finessi, Luca Molinari
Collaborator: Andrea Pellicani
The Archive is open for students, critics and researchers to consult, and works may be borrowed on request.
The Archive also assists owners of works by La Pietra who wish to have them authenticated and recorded in the official archive.
For information: archivio@ugolapietra.com
Studio e Archivio
via Guercino 7 – 20154 MILANO – Mappa
tel. +39 0236552825
The Archive at work
The Ugo La Pietra Archive examines and records plans, designs, works on canvas, drawings on paper, collages, sketches, photos, documents and applied-art and design objects.
Works are archived free of charge, but payment is requested to cover the cost of issuing certificates of authenticity with photos, stamped and signed by the Archive.
The collector is responsible for any costs for analyses, transport and insurance of the works.
To have a work by Ugo La Pietra documented in the Archive, please contact us at archivio@ugolapietra.com. You will then need to download the catalogue form from this website, complete it in full and email it to us along with the following material:
- a photo of the front of the work
- a photo of the rear of the work (if it contains details that might help with identification)
- a photo of the detail of the signature and/or copy number
- photos of any significant particulars for identification purposes (labels, archive numbers, dates, inscriptions or dedications)
- a caption (title, year, technique, dimensions and copy number)
NB: these materials must be of adequate professional quality – if the photographs are not good enough, then we shall be unable to perform the authentication.
Images must be sent as follows:
- as digital JPG files
- with a minimum resolution of 300 DPI and dimensions of at least 30 cm across
- to the above email address, with the Archive’s prior agreement.
(Any other means must be agreed with the Archive.)
Each image, details excepted, must show the entire work without any cropping, blocking out or touching up.
The Archive may ask to examine the work before releasing the certificate of authenticity. The photo-based authentication will be issued as a single copy; the Archive cannot provide duplicate authentications.