You have been working for Massimo since a long time, do you remember the first time you met?
Kate Collins: I first discovered Massimo’s work when I was in my last year at Middlebury College in Vermont. The senior art history majors were part of a committee which made decisions about which contemporary pieces to purchase for the museum collection and Massimo’s Riccione Diptych was one of the options (which we did decide to purchase).
After graduation, I began working for Isabella Brancolini’s contemporary photography gallery in Florence, Italy. She had been working with Massimo for a few years so I met him then in 2002. The first year I went to Art Basel on my own, maybe in 2003 or 2004, Massimo took me under his wing and I remember walking around the fair with him as he gave me some of his insight, and eating wienerschnitzel at the little hotel he used to stay at right across the German border.
