MAON, Museo d’arte dell’Otto e Novecento di Rende (CS)
May 4, 2018, 6:00 PM
FROM THE WHITE CUBE TO THE NOMADIC CUBE
Practices of deconstruction of the museum institution
by Silvia Pujia
preface by Simonetta Lux
afterword by Giorgio De Finis
published by Sensibili alle foglie
Speakers: Simonetta Lux, former professor of Contemporary Art History at the University "La Sapienza" of Rome, Tonino Sicoli, artistic director of the MAON, Cesare Pietroiusti, artist, and Silvia Pujia, author of the book.
The volume is the result of the Master in Contemporary Art Curator obtained in 2012 at the University of Rome Sapienza. It intends to trace the main museological transformations that occurred during the 20th century - from the Avant-garde through the Institutional Critique of the 1960s and 1970s to the 1980s - then focusing on the trends that in recent decades have contributed to deconstructing the belief that art necessarily needs a place to dwell.
It therefore wants to be a reflection on the identity and validity of the museum today and in doing so it intends to outline an overview of the museum institutions born or that are being born for which the container counts more than the content, or rather whose container has itself become content.
At the same time it devotes great attention to the recent critical instances towards the institutional and appointed places of the art world, which by programmatic intent and operational methods can be ascribed to a current institutional criticism, we could say of the third generation. New ideas of museum, of an other museum, with a rhizomatic character and open to continuous contamination that extends its field of action beyond its container to insert itself nomadically in any place, as the final outcome of the deconstruction in various stages of the neutral, aseptic and closed museum of the White cubemodernist.
In detail, three experiences are analyzed, all Roman, that place themselves outside of institutional or institutionalized practices both in a physical sense, acting only in a parasitic way in official exhibition spaces, and by intent: the Museum of the Other and the Othersee Metropoliz_mesticcia city by Giorgio De Finis, the Open-air Museum by Fausto Delle Chiaie and the Museum of Contemporary Italian Art in Exile by Cesare Pietroiusti.
Silivia Pujia (Lamezia Terme, 1985) Graduated in Contemporary Art History at the University of Rome Sapienza where she obtained a Master in Contemporary Art Curator. She is currently a contract teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Verona and collaborates with various museums in the Calabrian territory including the MAON of Rende and the MARCA of Catanzaro. She combines critical and curatorial practice with artistic practice, taking an interest in current public and relational issues.
Simonetta Lux has been a full professor of Contemporary Art History at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" since 1997 and director of the MLAC (Museum Laboratory of Contemporary Art of the University).
In 1977-78, together with other scholars, she founded the Italian Society for Industrial Archaeology, to promote study and protection of the artistic and architectural phenomena of the industrial age. Starting in 1978, with the I.C.C.D., she set the problem of a new model of cards that integrates and completes the analysis that until now has been only formal and stylistic. In 1986, she designed and created in Rome the first Laboratory Museum of Contemporary Art, which she directed until 1990 and again starting in January 2000. In 1990 she was called as a teacher at the University of Tuscia, in Viterbo, and there she founded the new multidisciplinary Laboratory Museum of Contemporary Arts, established in 1995.
In the autumn of the same year she created the University Sculpture Study Center at the Attilio Pierelli Foundation in Bomarzo. He was a Delegate Member of the University of Tuscia in the interuniversity project MUSIS-Museum of Science and Scientific Information. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the MAON.
Cesare Pietroiusti (Rome, 1955) artist. Graduated in Medicine with a thesis in Psychiatric Clinic, he is co-founder with Sergio Lombardo of the Jartrakor Study Center, Rome (1977) and of the Journal of Art Psychology (1979).
In the second half of the 1980s, together with Salvatore Falci, Stefano Fontana, Pino Modica and Domenico Nardone, he gave life to the experience of the Piombino group, which experiments, about a decade before 'relational' art, the involvement, through aesthetic stimuli, of an unaware public. Since 2005 he has been co-curator of the Sound Art Museum in Rome and in 2007 he founded, together with the Space collective in Bratislava, the Evolution de l'art, the first art gallery that sells only works. In 2010, in collaboration with Alessandra Meo, Mattia Pellegrini and Davide Ricco, he founded the Museum of Contemporary Art in Exile, a museum without a fixed physical location that, conceived as a nomadic entity, intends to collect throughout Italy works created by individual or collective personalities who carry out surprising, heterodox creative activities outside the circuits of media communication.
The evening is organized by the “A. Capizzano” Center of Rende, with the patronage of the Municipality of Rende and in collaboration with the Alpeh Center of Lamezia Terme.
