mtn resumes its activity | ship temporary museum with exhibition Project Room Neutral: an opportunity to reflect on the very nature of the Art Museum in relation to society. Together with other institutions, even museums today are called to come out of a position of ambiguity with respect to their own role and goals. The result of this reflection determines the coherence and efficacy of one's own action and proposal from a cultural, juridical and economic point of view. So we come to have to answer a capital question: what are the function and role of an art museum today?
Is it a matter of paternalistically determining what deserves to be brought to the public, identifying which cultural approach to support? How can we enhance the responsibility of creating an atmosphere in which to immerse one's time? What value, not artificially determined, but effective, does art have? These are just some aspects that require at least a series of reflections.
Project Room Neutral presents the work of fifteen artists of very different generations, with important thought and aesthetic settings, in some cases even in open contrast if evaluated according to a traditional critical parameter. The pluralityand what this implies is the context that this exhibition wants deepen, to begin to process some of the questions set out above.
For mtn a cultural institution should be as ideologically neutral a space as possible, an impartial support on which to freely project the multiformity of human experience. The Museum becomes a multifaceted, aerial organism, willing to abandon with ease what has already been conceived and elaborated towards a dimension that has not yet been codified, both in the cultural and more broadly social fields.
Like any project room, the works on display will be available for free loan to the citizens of Bologna once the period of exposure at the museum is over.
The exhibition is accompanied by a critical essay by Ornella D'Agnano.
Artists: Emanuela Ascari, Riccardo Bellelli, Luca Bolognese, Emilia Bosetti, Dariotti, Giuseppe Di Martino, Alcide Fontanesi, Silla Guerrini, Valentina Medda, Stefano W. Pasquini, Chiara Pergola, Prom.run, Ivano Ruscelli, Marcello Spada, Golzar Sanganian.
Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday from 15 to 19 by appointment only.
The exhibition is always visible from outside the museum.
Cover artwork (detail) by Silla Guerrini (2020)
