AMACI - Contemporary Day 2024

The appointment with the Contemporary Day this year is renewed as well; the event promoted annually by AMACI - Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums, with the support of the Ministry of Culture - General Directorate of Contemporary Creativity and the collaboration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of International Cooperation - General Directorate for Public and Cultural Diplomacy, involves, as always, museums, foundations, public and private institutions, galleries, studios and artist spaces in Italy and abroad with the aim of bringing out, in the space of a single day, the network of subjects and different realities that promote the art of today and its varied languages.

 Now in its twentieth edition, also for 2024 the event, in order to encourage the widest possible participation, maintains a hybrid format, physical and digital, with online and offline proposals, in order to encourage the widest possible participation.

The guiding image of this edition of the Contemporary Day is the work Woman in cage (1975/2024) by Tomaso Binga (pseudonym of Bianca Pucciarelli Menna, Salerno, 1931), an Italian artist chosen by the Directors and Directors of the AMACI museums after Michelangelo Pistoletto (2006), Maurizio Cattelan (2007), Paola Pivi (2008), Luigi Ontani (2009), Stefano Arienti (2010), Giulio Paolini (2011), Francesco Vezzoli (2012), Marzia Miglior (2013), Adrian Paci (2014), Alfredo Pirri (2015), Emilio Isgrò (2016), Liliana Moro (2017), Marcello Maloberti (2018), Eva Marisaldi (2019), Armin Linke (2021), Giorgio Andreotta Calò (2022) and Binta Diaw ( 2023). The image of Tomaso Binga is taken from one of his performances of 1974 in which the artist, feminist and activist for women's rights, presented herself with her head enclosed in a canary cage, being fed by male hands: a reflection on condition of constrictive subordination of women and, more generally, on inequality based on forms of control, often presented as care and protection. The canary cage thus becomes not only a physical barrier, but also a metaphorical and highly symbolic one, on the inaccessibility of freedom as an inalienable right.

The main theme of this year is in fact that of accessibility, understood in a broad sense as the breaking down of cultural, intellectual, sensorial and architectural barriers, to guarantee access to contemporary culture for all.

This year too, the Contemporary Day renews the involvement of the MAECI diplomatic-consular network, made up of Embassies, Consulates and Italian Cultural Institutes abroad; Furthermore, as in previous editions, the event maintains various groups of activities, all with free entry: an ad hoc program of the AMACI associated museums, initiatives developed in collaboration with the foreign network of the MAECI, the involvement of the network of Contemporary Places promoted by the General Management Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture and the proposals of the participating entities. The calendar is very rich of events, from which emerges the widespread network of realities promoting the different contemporary languages ​​on the national and international territory.

AMACI is an association founded in 2003 to promote contemporary art and to support the development of institutional policies linked to it. It brings together 26 Italian contemporary art museums, different in size, history, management and territorial context to which they belong.

For the detailed calendar of all events, consult the official website: https://www.amaci.org/gdc20

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