Analysis out of the box

Collector profile: Giuliana & Tommaso Setari

Analysis out of the boxContemporary Art | “Art accustoms you to beauty and rigor… to upholding standards.” For the Setaris, proximity with art and artists is an important part of self-construction, prefiguring the adoption of a broad worldview. Tommaso grew up in Rome surrounded by the artist friends of his parents, who collected paintings. Giuliana spent her childhood in Pescara, studying literature and art history, taking courses on Flemish painting and frequenting art galleries.

Giuliana Setari Causi devant «Asymmetrical Pyramid», 1986, de Sol LeWit © Philippe Sebirot
Giuliana Setari Causi devant «Asymmetrical Pyramid», 1986, de Sol LeWit
© Philippe Sebirot

The connexion?

Giuliana’s first major emotional connection with a work of art was in 1976 at an exhibition staged in a former prison : an Ettore Spalletti floor piece comprised of pure blue pigment, a sensitive depiction of the sky that would lead him to visit the artist in his studio. Tommaso and Giuliana met in Brussels in 1977. She was an intern in the European commission’s cultural director’s office while he “managed the trading room for a major Japanese bank.”

Their first work?

In 1979, two years after they met, the Setaris fell in love with […]

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Giuliana Setari Causi devant «Asymmetrical Pyramid», 1986, de Sol LeWit © Philippe Sebirot

Giuliana Setari Causi devant «Asymmetrical Pyramid», 1986, de Sol LeWit
© Philippe Sebirot

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