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FEC has pioneered the investigation of the link between art and industry. It is now a cutting-edge reference model in managerial education through contemporary art.
Every activity promoted by FEC – which finds in Elica the ideal incubator in which processes and results can be experimented, with and later applied to other situations – involves internationally renowned artists in the design and creation of a permanent artwork for a company, by actively engaging its employees.

This particular and original collection is included in “Global Corporate Collection” (2015), a volume dedicated to the 100 best artistic corporate collections worldwide.

Among others, the artworks of the following artists will be visible: Francesco Arena, Bianco Valente, Fabio Barile, Francesco Barocco, Matteo Fato, Marcello Maloberti, Elena Mazzi, Francesco Neri, Perino & Vele, Jorge Satorre, Sissi, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Vedovamazzei.

Visits will start at 10.00 am, 11.00 am and 12.00 pm. Reservation is required.

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With a preface by Ariane Berthoin Antal – WZB Berlin Social Science Center, the volume is written by Chiara Paolino – associate professor of Business Organization at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and professor of Leadership, Organization and HR at SDA Bocconi School of Management (for the theoretical part), Deborah Carè – Chief Human Resources Officer of Elica and FEC director from 2009 to 2017 (for the managerial part), Marcello Smarrelli – art historian and artistic director of FEC (for the artistic and curatorial part).

The volume aims to spread good practices in organizing artistic interventions in businesses by discussing the most current theoretical approaches on the relationship between art and business. For this reason it is aimed at both the managerial and the artistic community, with the intention of creating an authentic dialogue for the common benefit, analyzing the application of the ‘method’ developed by Fondazione Ermanno Casoli, in its ten-year experience, within important Italian companies, in comparison with similar methods adopted internationally.

The artistic interventions published in the book have been selected from among the many created by Fondazione Ermanno Casoli Foundation because they are functional to the managerial topics dealt with.

For this international edition, a new theme has been elaborated concerning the artistic interventions that Fondazione Ermanno Casoli organized before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This last development of the volume is functional to reflect on the value of collaboration between art and business during crises and on the problems that art can raise in the workplace during an emergency such as the one we are experiencing.

The book is available in all bookstores and on www.egeaeditore.it