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CHRISTOPHE GO<strong>US</strong>SARD<br />
commissions in the region, in 1999. Other internationally known<br />
artists made their way to Ceretto and the region in his wake, from Sol<br />
LeWitt to Marina Abramović, and now Piedmont has taken a place<br />
beside Provence as the leading wine and art pairings in the world.<br />
Towns like Alba and winemakers such as La Raia (la-raia.it) have<br />
invited artists to make permanent installations, while Lunetta11<br />
(lunetta11.com) is a standalone gallery in the hamlet of Mombarcaro<br />
started by Eva Menzio, former director of the Marlborough<br />
Monaco gallery, to cater to the growing demand in the region.<br />
IT WAS ALSO in 1999 that Castello di Ama (castellodiama.<br />
com) in Chianti began its collaboration with Galleria Continua,<br />
bringing prominent contemporary artists to live on the terroir<br />
and construct works inspired by the setting. The first creation,<br />
“L’Albero di Ama,” by Michelangelo Pistoletto, has been joined by<br />
works from Anish Kapoor in 2004, Louise Bourgeois in 2009,<br />
Lee Ufan in 2016, among many other artists, which have created<br />
a lasting showcase that has since been joined by five suites,<br />
a convivial restaurant, and an atelier featuring local artisans.<br />
In California, the Robert Mondavi Winery (robertmondaviwinery.<br />
com) remains an art destination—including the Welcoming<br />
Muse sculpture that has greeted visitors for more than four<br />
decades—but other vineyards have taken the concept of on-site<br />
art to dizzying heights. Donum (thedonumestate.com) in Sonoma<br />
boasts a remarkable—and growing—collection of site-specific<br />
sculptures by artists such as Ai Weiwei, Danh Vo, and Doug<br />
Aitken that is among the leading sculpture parks in America.<br />
The Hess Collection (hesscollection.com), meanwhile, is one<br />
of the premier art collections in the world, with pieces assembled<br />
over 50 years by Swiss winemaker and philanthropist Donald<br />
Hess. Less than a quarter of the collection—which includes<br />
works by Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, Frank Stella, and Anselm<br />
HOME COMFORT<br />
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s<br />
“Teenager, Teenager,” 2011,<br />
at Peyrassol.<br />
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