Summer/fall 2021 exhibitions

Sonia Leimer: Via San Gennaro
Curated by Luigi Fassi
Via San Gennaro by Sonia Leimer is the outcome of the artist’s intensive period of residency in New York, which lasted several months, with the support of the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP). During her stay, Sonia Leimer researched Italian memories of Little Italy in Manhattan, the New York neighbourhood that symbolizes the history of Italian migration to the United States, especially from the southern and Mediterranean regions. It has been a crossroads of individual and collective destinies from the twentieth century onwards.

Comprising sculptures, videos and drawings, the exhibition provides recognition of a combination of traces, phenomena and urban sediments capable of telling the story of Little Italy’s transformations together with the relentless disappearance of Italian memories. The exhibition takes its title from the celebration of the Feast of San Gennaro which has taken place every September in Little Italy since 1924.

The Via San Gennaro project is supported by the Italian Council (4th Edition, 2018), program to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Dictatorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue of critical essays by Alessandra Cianchetta, Karl Conte and Luigi Fassi.

Vittorio Accornero and Edina Altara: Family group with images
Curated by Luca Scarlini
The exhibition devoted to Vittorio Accornero de Testa (Casale Monferrato, 1896 – Milan, 1982) and Edina Altara (Sassari, 1898 – Lanusei, 1983) seeks to draw attention to the work of two artists and illustrators, exploring their complex personal and creative affairs that united them from their very first individual works in the 1920s all the way through to the 1980s.

The careers of the two artists embraced multiple dynamics in Italian artistic creation, ranging from graphics to the design of objects. The exhibition paints a portrait of two lives spent exploring ever changing dimensions of creation, working alongside illustrious names in Italian design and fashion, including Rodolfo Gucci, who enjoyed a special partnership with Accornero, and Gio Ponti, who wanted Edina Altara alongside him in major interior design projects.

On this occasion, with the contribution of a group of set designers working with the Teatro di Sardegna, the MAN is being transformed into a book of fairy tales, a kaleidoscope of 20th-century images, thereby staging the fairy story of two artists poised between Sardinia, continental Italy and the world. 

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue containing critical essays by Luigi Fassi, Luca Scarlini, Pompeo Vagliani, Silvia Mira, Lauretta Colonnelli, Aurora Fiorentini, Giorgia Toso and Federico Spano.

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