At Museion Passage – a space dedicated to the enhancement of the museum collection and the link with the territory, accessible free of charge – opens the exhibition dedicated to one of the major Italian exponents of Visual Poetry, Lucia Marcucci, on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday. The artist is part of the New Scripture Archive, a collection donated to Museion and the Mart by Paolo della Grazia in 2020.

Numerous theoretical and poetic writings give voice to Lucia Marcucci's research and artistic experiments of the 1960s and 1970s. The works come from the Mart, from the artist's private collection, and above all from the New Scripture Archive, part of the museum collection. The focus that Museion wishes to dedicate to it is in fact part of a constant research that the museum dedicates to the enhancement of its collection, to and to its protagonists, highlighting from time to time the contemporaneity of research and the various artistic and interdisciplinary connections.

Marcucci's works speak of post-World War II Italy, characterized by an economic boom, a social and political reorganization, and, towards the end of the 1960s, also by student protests and feminist movements. In this climate, many male and female artists choose to express themselves using unconventional means, with new techniques and focusing on interdisciplinarity, as emerges from the artist's works.

The title of the exhibition, Poesie e no, derives from a poem-performance by Lamberto Pignotti and Eugenio Miccini presented in a first version in 1963 at the invitation of Lucia Marcucci, directed by Enrico Sirello, and which in the following years had various presentations and the participation of the artist herself. The title, like the whole exhibition, wants to underline how Marcucci's artistic practice has always been characterized by the encounter between "high" and "low" culture, between literary and everyday language expressed through the means of mass communication: a union between text and image, painting and collage, tragedy and irony.