Geografie is an exhibition that arises from the rearrangement of the collection of the MA * GA Museum . The project develops a multi-year research field that aims to imagine the exhibitions dedicated to the collection as a moment of in-depth study and innovation that allows, through the selection of chosen works, to tell, from an unprecedented perspective, our contemporaneity. Geografie also continues the dialogue that links visual arts and literature within the HIC - Hub Cultural Institutes of the City of Gallarate. The title of the exhibition, Geografie, comes from a free reading and reinterpretation of the homonymous book by Antonella Anedda who writes: “Time is consumed, space less. Space is renewed, it is not true that it is empty ”.

This relationship between space and time and the ability of art to tell the times and places of our contemporaneity is at the center of the exhibition. The exhibition opens with a series of paintings that deal directly or indirectly with the theme of the Second World War and reconstruction between the 1940s and 1950s. Emilio Vedova's “L'Urto” is an emblematic example of this in which the swirling geometric shapes are a reference to the drama and violence of war. These works are answered by the great painting by Ennio Morlotti "La Pace" in which the cubist language directly recalls the Picasso of Guernica, of an art committed, morally and politically, to telling the story in its dramatic events of transformation.

In the second line of research two ideas of space in comparison emerge that transversally characterize the sixties and seventies: the more scientific, physical spatial dimension, that of cosmic discoveries and the reaching of the Moon, and the political space of movement, of struggle and of the contestation that leads to more elaborate forms of conceptual art and radical architecture. The artists and reference artists are Lucio Fontana and Ugo La Pietra, Nanda Vigo, Mirella Bentivoglio and Paola Levi Montalcini . The third line of research addresses contemporaneity and the complex redefinitions of contemporary space. This part of the exhibition refers to works related to issues such as the definition of the relationship between place and history, nature and artifice, and then focusing on works that investigate in a deeper way individual and collective identities and memories.