Spring / summer 2021
Solo/Multi: Nathalie Du Pasquier. Campo di Marte
Until June 20, 2021
Arrhythmics: Wolfgang Stoerchle (1944–1976)
Until June 27, 2021
Polyphony: Simone Carella. Io poeto tu
Until June 6, 2021
Chamber Music: (Editions) Mego 1995–2020
Until June 6, 2021
Retrofuture: Notes for a Collection
in progress
In-Design: Boy Vereecken. Back Matter
Until June 13, 2021
Rehearsal: Soshiro Matsubara. Caresses
Until May 30, 2021
Bibliographic Office: Playmen: an album
Until May 30, 2021
Ciao!
Despite troubled waters, my tentacles continue to whirl. Eight shows have opened in all my exhibition spaces, envisioned by my artistic director, Luca Lo Pinto, as if they were the sections of a living magazine. I’d like to introduce the programme of Museum for Preventive Imagination, which will be on view throughout the spring, followed by some previews from my summer programme.
Nathalie Du Pasquier presents Campo di Marte, her first major solo exhibition in an Italian museum, and the inaugural show in Solo/Multi, my section exploring new approaches to the exhibition as medium.
Carola Bonfili, Costanza Candeloro, Ludovica Carbotta, Gianluca Concialdi, Giulia Crispiani, Giorgio Di Noto, Beatrice Marchi, Diego Marcon, SAGG NAPOLI, Francesco Pedraglio and Davide Stucchi are the first 11 artists invited to take part in Retrofuture, a continuously updated voyage in time that connects the works in my permanent collection with those of a new generation of Italian artists. They will be joined in the months to come by the contributions of Giorgia Garzilli, Real Madrid, Margherita Raso, Parasite 2.0 and Alessandro Cicoria.
The largely undiscovered work of Wolfgang Stoerchle (1944–76) is unearthed in an exhibition I realized together with Alice Dusapin. It gathers an important body of Stoerchle’s work within Arrhythmics, the solo shows section that explores unconventional figures, spanning various genres and generations.
The life and work of Simone Carella (1946–2016), filmmaker and driving force behind the Roman avant-garde scene, is narrated by a chorus of voices gathered in Polyphony, my experimental monographic section. The exhibition Io poeto tu includes works by Anna Franceschini, Rä di Martino and Emiliano Maggi, archival materials reinterpreted in video form by VEGA, interviews with Ulisse Benedetti, Pippo Di Marca, Paolo Grassini, Rossella Or, Mario Romano, Fabio Sargentini, Marco Solari, along with live events by Andrea Cortellessa, Francesca Corona and Alessandra Vanzi, Silvia Fanti and Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, as well as Valerio Mattioli.
Boy Vereecken is the first graphic designer I have asked to reinterpret his practice within In-Design. Back Matter shows the original subjects of some of his main projects, including works by Stéphane Barbier Bouvet, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Jana Euler, Ezio Gribaudo, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Annette Kelm, Marlie Mul and Peter Wächtler.
The entire catalogue of Editions Mego, record label helmed by Peter Rehberg, is on display inside my listening room, Chamber Music, featuring 25 years of the label’s output.
With Caresses, Soshiro Matsubara inaugurates Rehearsal, the section that gives artists the opportunity to test ideas and works within the framework of an exhibition in progress. The show’s installations are characterized by continuous transformations in the making of a personal cabinet of curiosities.
The first exhibition in the Bibliographic Office, my section focused on the world of publishing, examines the Italian softcore magazine Playmen (1967–2001). The bibliographic materials on view expand into a video installation by VEGA, and the show features first-hand accounts by some of the magazine’s direct protagonists, including Fulvio Jacometti, Mauro Piccini, Pier Francesco Pingitore, Bruna Reali and Roberto Rocchi. There will also be live contributions by Carlo Antonelli, Maria Luisa Frisa and Michele Masneri.
Alongside these formats, the digressions offered by my Supplement section continue to expand: Bootlicker Suite, an augmented reality exhibition activated via QR code, by Darren Bader, will inaugurate in the coming weeks. It will spread by means of a series of posters, starting from my city—Rome—and will migrate up and down the Italian peninsula to other cities, in collaboration with Galleria Franco Noero in Turin, MEGA in Milan, bruno in Venice, and Fondazione Morra Greco in Naples.
In June and July 2021 all my columns will update independently, and at different times. The protagonists of the summer programme include: Tony Cokes in Solo/Multi; a number of Italian artists in Retrofuture; Mario Diacono in Arrhythmics; Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller, interpreted through works by Talia Chetrit, Philipp Fleischmann, Seiichi Furuya, Sophie Thun, and other contributions in Polyphony; Julie Peeters in In-Design; Franca Sacchi followed by Sublime Frequencies in Chamber Music; Reba Maybury in Rehearsal; Noah Barker, Éric Baudelaire, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Claudia de la Torre, Maria Eichhorn, Simone Fattal, Aaron Flint Jamison, David Horvitz, Tobias Kaspar, Giulio Paolini, Walid Raad, Georgia Sagri, Luca Trevisani for the exhibition Artists’ Library: 1989–2021 in the Bibliographic Office.
As I write this, my exhibitions are temporary closed due to the progression of the pandemic. Please visit my website for updates and further information, in the hope that you will be able to visit me in person very soon.
–Museum for Preventive Imagination
