Post Scriptum. A museum forgotten by heart

With: Tolia Astakhishvili (featuring Thea Djordjadze, Heike Gallmeier, Dylan Peirce), Absalon, Vincenzo Agnetti, Maurizio Altieri, Alex Bag, Beatrice Bonino, Victor Cavallo, Francesca Cefis, Alassan Diawara, Buck Ellison, Luciano Fabro, Hamishi Farah, Simone Forti, Pippa Garner, Alberto Garutti, Isa Genzken, Lenard Giller, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Adam Gordon, Pierre Guyotat, Sohrab Hura, Thomas Hutton, Allan Kaprow, KUKII (aka Lafawndah), Rosemary Mayer, Sandra Mujinga, Charlemagne Palestine, Paolo Pallucco & Mireille Rivier, Lorenzo Silvestri, Diane Simpson, Lukas Wassmann, Gillian Wearing, Issy Wood

Curated by Luca Lo Pinto.

Ciao!

The programme of Museum of Preventive Imagination is coming to an end, and I am waiting for you to visit its final exhibition, Post Scriptum. A museum forgotten by heart, running until February 16, 2025.

“Forgetting by heart” is an expression coined towards the end of the 1960s by Vincenzo Agnetti (1926–1981). The title of the group exhibition that concludes the programming of MACRO under the artistic direction of Luca Lo Pinto borrows the phrase to suggest an approach to the results of a project that over a span of five years has led the museum, as an institution, to question its own identity, its own modes of production and relation with artists and the audience.

The museum is reflected in an exhibition spreading throughout its architecture, in an area of over 10,000 square meters, where a palimpsest of works, sounds, images, narratives and words echoes with a discordant rhythm made of instants of suspension alternating with moments of intensity, like a jam session.

Post Scriptum. A museum forgotten by heart is an exhibition that mirrors Editorial, the group show spreading through the entire museum in 2020, launching Museum for Preventive Imagination with a statement of intentions and directions. Following the metaphor of a magazine, the project has developed across five years with an editorial structure of eight thematic sections, corresponding to the various rooms of the museum. Some have investigated the idea of the exhibition itself, while others have challenged its conventions, incorporating figures from outside the system and other languages like design, music, publishing: a palimpsest composed of 65 exhibitions, involving more than 250 artists.

While the concept of the museum is intrinsically linked to the idea of History, the institution itself has been conceived as an exhibition, experimenting with a poetic approach with respect to a linear narrative, avoiding the History of the museum and entering the stories of exhibitions. The project has attempted to propose a different model of the museum that would reflect the spirit of the present day, in which every subject is forced to rethink its way of being in the world. For its conclusion, in keeping with a precise, coherent curatorial script in a perfectly circular context, the museum returns to its neutral state, with the dismantling of the editorial structure that has defined it in these years, to make room for an exhibition that looks to the past and the present with a future perspective.

The exhibition does not follow a linear narrative, but instead creates an open finale made of unexpected associations, different languages and unprecedented insights into the tradition of institutional critique, absorbing them and returning them to the museum as a living entity in a state of becoming.

As a further reference, the exhibition also contains a fashion editorial, made by the stylist and art director Francesca Cefis and the photographers Alassan Diawara and Lukas Wassmann, conceived as an integral part of the show’s itinerary, and as a catalogue of the exhibition itself.

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I hope to see you soon!