Pad. 26 Stand B/55
Ca’ di Fra’ is the heir of the historical art gallery Toselli & Co. of Franco Toselli and Gianfranco Composti. In 1997 Composti set up a countainer for his contemporary art collection and a paper archive specialized in art catalogues and photography from the 60s to today (the whole archive is available to museums and private citizens; this is the largest free consultation private paper archive without any public subsidy). The archive is part of Fondo delle Biblioteche Regionali Lombarde. The art collection includes a lot of works of Transavanguardia’s artists, Arte Povera e Conceptual Art, Gruppo T, Gruppo Zero, Gruppo del Cenobio and works of national and international photographers. In its gallery in Milan Ca’ di Fra’ has staged many solo shows of Hiroshi Sugimoto, Yasumasa Morimura, Nobuyoshi Araki, Seni Camara, Joel-Peter Witkin, Mario Giacomelli, Jan Saudek, Luigi Ghirri, Nino Migliori, Franco Fontana, Uliano Lucas, Alberto Korda, Carlo Orsi, Gio Ponti, Ico Parisi, Andrea Pazienza, Fabio Civitelli, Carla Bedini, Mario Nigro, Luigi Ontani, Luigi Serafini, Ugo La Pietra, Grazia Varisco, Nanda Vigo, Agostino Ferrari, Arturo Vermi.
VIA CARLO FARINI 2
20154 MILANO (MI) Italy
Tel. +39 02 29002108
E-mail: gcomposti@gmail.com