In 1997, Il Polittico opened a house jokingly called Casa BAM, based on the initials of the three founders, Beatrice Bulgari, Arnaldo Romani Brizzi and Massimo Caggiano.
This «apartment for art and culture» is used as a meeting place for artists, collectors and art critics, a place for holding small parties, book presentations and exhibitions of drawings and other artworks on paper. Two exhibitions have been held there, to date, Paesaggi, by the Persian artist Mitra Divshali, and Venezie, crayon on paper works by Daniel Lifschitz. Among book presentation’s: Il volo del calabrone, by Fabrizio Galimberti, Claudia Galimberti and Luca Paolazzi; Economia e pazzia e L’economia spiegata a un figlio, by Fabrizio Galimberti; Storie molte volte narrate, by Antonio Malaschini; and Edward Lucie-Smith monographies about Alberto Abate, Paola Gandolfi, Stefano Di Stasio, Carlos Forns Bada, Harry Holland, John Kirby, Philip Pearlstein. In occasion of the presentation of Pearlstein monography, in the house has been taken part of the film of his life. Among gala evenings we can remember the one in honour of Antonio Malaschini as he was nominated General Secretary of Italian Republic Senate, and the party dedicated to the researcher Barbara Ensoli.
The house has enabled Il Polittico to host many Italian and international artists, when in Rome for their exhibitions at the Gallery, such as John Kirby, Philip Pearlstein, Carlos Forns Bada, David Ligare, Giulio Durini di Monza, Carlo Bertocci, Marco Petrus, Marco Cornini, Luca Pignatelli, Harry Holland, Anna Keen, Alberto Gálvez; besides the British art historian Edward Lucie-Smith, the art critic and detective novel writer Alessandro Riva, the architect Daniela Rossi-Cattaneo, and the scientist Alberto Giazotto.
Casa BAM has also featured in important interior design magazines, such as AD (August 1998 and November 1999) and La Mia Casa (April 1999). In particular, in the November 1999 issue of AD (no. 222, Millennium! Il gusto degli italiani 1900-1999: un secolo di meraviglie), Casa BAM opened the chapter dedicated to the 1990s («Verso il Futuro»), as emblematic of the decade’s penchant for «freedom of expression». |