FRANKFURT.- The exhibition “Arte Essenziale” presents sculptures and large-scale installations by eight international contemporary artists from Italy, Great Britain, Georgia, and the US. All artists were commissioned by the Italian Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia to produce new works for the exhibition. They explore the potential and characteristics of the materials employed as well as address philosophical concepts concerning the relationship between material, space, and time. “Arte Essenziale” was first shown at the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia and subsequently will be presented at the Frankfurter Kunstverein from November 4, 2011 to January 1, 2012. The Italian philosopher Federico Ferrari’s thoughts on the essential in art serve as the exhibition’s conceptual framework: “Arte Essenziale” attests to the need to identify at the end of the postmodern era a gesture of a new be