Post Scriptum. A museum forgotten by heart

For the title of the group exhibition that closes the five-year period of his artistic direction at MACRO, Luca Lo Pinto borrows an expression coined by the painter, essayist and poet Vincenzo Agnetti, one of the greatest representatives of conceptual-minded research in Italy: “forgetting by heart”.

The exhibition, which lacks a preordained theme, exemplifies from its title the way in which the museum, as an institution, has been questioning itself over these years about its identity, its modes of production and relationship with artists and audiences, and the results it has achieved. The approach followed by the museum from 2020 to the present is thus reflected in a diffuse exhibition that occupies the more than 10,000 square meters over which the MACRO extends.

The visitor’s gaze is free to wander among the works of more than thirty Italian and international artists. These include those produced for the occasion by Tolia Astakhishvili (with Thea Djordjadze, Heike Gallmeier, Dylan Peirce), Maurizio Altieri, Beatrice Bonino, Francesca Cefis and Lukas Wassmann, Pippa Garner, Lenard Giller, Félix González-Torres, Thomas Hutton, KUKII (aka Lafawndah), Rosemary Mayer, Charlemagne Palestine, Lorenzo Silvestri, Gillian Wearing.

In addition to long-acclaimed artists such as Luciano Fabro, Isa Genzken, and Simone Forti, and some of the more established voices of the young art scene such as Issy Wood, the exhibition offers the opportunity to come across more rarely seen figures, like Pierre Guyotat or Absalon, or others who have brought an artistic perspective to fashion, such as Maurizio Altieri, and to design, including Paolo Pallucco & Mireille Rivier. The overview also focuses on emerging artists like Hamishi Farah and Sandra Mujinga.