The exhibition “ Half a century in art. Works from the Giorgio Giusti collection ”. Curated by Francesca Piccinini and Luciano Rivi and promoted by the Civic Museum of Art, the exhibition offers a selection of works from the Giorgio Giusti Collection, a Modenese collector attentive to contemporary manifestations along a path of life and culture that has lasted for over fifty ' years. The exhibition project starts with the generous donation of thirteen works by contemporary artists while another thirty-three are received by the Museum in the form of free loan.

An exhibition that offers visitors a journey from the 1950s to today through the works that have arrived in the museum and a selection of other works among those still preserved by the collector. Starting from the examples of Abstractionism of the Fifties, passing through the experimental experiences of the Sixties, along the period of return to figuration of the following decades, we get to provide examples on the panorama of the last decades. Among the artists on show: Perilli, Turcato, Crippa, Vautier, Beuys, Wilson, Manzoni, Pascali, Balestrini, Rotella, Schifano, Paladino, Cucchi, Anastasi, Franco Vaccari, Guerzoni and Wainer Vaccari. He keeps the collector himself in the catalog to specify how over the years he has not felt attracted by particular aesthetic criteria or by single artistic currents. In a deliberately "disorderly" way, with the idea of rather breaking and overcoming the too many fences that stiffen the field of art criticism, the collector has pursued his passion by intertwining different interests, choosing his works now in reference to the size of the a journey dear to him, now to that of contemporary myths or, again, to aspects of everyday life. The collection of works of art is intertwined in the path of Giorgio Giusti with the frequentation of artists. His story is part of a context not only in Modena, but which has found significant stimuli in Modena: from the historic Critica 70 exhibition, promoted fifty years ago by the Civic Gallery, to the frequentation of his friend Emilio Mazzoli, gallery owner of international horizon.

The Civic Art Museum of Modena therefore continues its exhibition activity on art from the second post-war period to today with an exhibition dedicated to contemporary collecting, proposing an opening to the private sector in the hope of a further following.

After the research on Giorgio Preti and art in Modena in the 1950s, the most recent catalog on the story of Parole sui muri and the 1960s.