Postscript, Exhibition MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome

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Postscript:

A forgotten museum by heart

From 4 October to 16 February 2025

MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art

Via Nizza, 138, Rome

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To forget by heart is an expression coined in the late sixties by Vincenzo Agnetti (1926-1981). The title of the group exhibition that concludes the programming of the artistic director of MACRO, Luca Lo Pinto, borrows it to suggest the approach to the outcomes of a project that in five years has led the museum institution to question its own identity, its production methods, and its relationship with artists and the public. The museum is reflected in an exhibition, spread throughout its architecture, over an area of more than 10,000 square meters, with works by 37 Italian and international artists, including those produced for the occasion by Tolia Astakhishvili (with Thea Djordjadze, Heike Gallmeier, Dylan Peirce), Maurizio Altieri, Beatrice Bonino, Francesca Cefis with Alassan Diawara and Lukas Wassmann, Pippa Garner, Lenard Giller, Thomas Hutton, KUKII (aka Lafawndah), Rosemary Mayer, Charlemagne Palestine, Lorenzo Silvestri, Gillian Wearing. Among the other exhibited works are those of historically recognized and internationally renowned artists, such as Luciano Fabro, Isa Genzken, Felix Gonzalez-Torrres, Simone Forti, and some of the most established voices of the young art scene like Issy Wood. The exhibition also offers the opportunity to meet figures seen more rarely, such as Pierre Guyotat or Absalon, or those who have brought an artistic perspective to fashion, like Maurizio Altieri, and to design, like Paolo Pallucco & Mireille Rivier, or even emerging artists like Hamishi Farah and Sandra Mujinga. Post Scriptum. A museum forgotten by heart is an exhibition that mirrors Editoriale, the group exhibition spread throughout the museum with which the programming opened in 2020, declaring its intentions and directions. Following the metaphor of a magazine, the project developed over five years with the editorial structure of eight thematic sections corresponding to the different rooms of the museum. Some sections investigated the very idea of an exhibition, others challenged it in its conventions, including in the exhibition dimension figures outside the system, and other languages, such as design, music, publishing: a palimpsest that consisted of 65 exhibitions, involving 250 artists, under the unitary title of Museum for Preventive Imagination.

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A forgotten museum by heart

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