The Fondazione Biscozzi| Rimbaud was established on February 19, 2018 by the spouses Luigi Biscozzi and Dominique Rimbaud with the aim of carrying out a cultural activity focused particularly on modern and contemporary art, through the enhancement of their collection of about two hundred works. The exhibition space of the Fondazione Biscozzi | Rimbaud ETS is located in a small historic building in Piazzetta Giorgio Baglivi 4 in the center of Lecce, a few meters from Porta Napoli. It consists of a permanent exhibition, on the first floor of a historic building, of the most important and representative pieces of the collection. The path is articulated chronologically: from the origins of the contemporary to the section on Informal art in Italy and Europe, then moving on to the abstract-geometric and kinetic-programmed vein, to analytical painting, and finally to research that goes beyond the traditional statutes of painting and sculpture. Part of the ground floor spaces is dedicated to temporary exhibitions. Here you can also find the ticket office-bookshop, the educational room, an internal courtyard, and the small art history library, also used to host conferences and events. The Biscozzi Rimbaud Collection, from its origins to its progressive formation over more than forty years, has documented - certainly not exhaustively, but rather with a deliberately personal perspective - an important part of 20th-century art and includes significant works by great Italian and international names (Filippo de Pisis, Arturo Martini, Enrico Prampolini, Josef Albers, Alberto Magnelli), with special reference to the fifties, sixties, and seventies: Fausto Melotti, Luigi Veronesi, Alberto Burri, Piero Dorazio, Renato Birolli, Tancredi, Emilio Scanavino, Pietro Consagra, Kengiro Azuma, Dadamaino, Agostino Bonalumi, Angelo Savelli, Mario Schifano, and many others (there are also some valid contemporary artists from Salento and Lecce, such as Salvatore Sava, Michele Guido, and Salvatore Esposito).