until Saturday June 21 2014
MADRE - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina
T : +39 081 56 24 561
via Settembrini, 79
80122 Naples
Italy
"Per_forming a collection #1" is the first chapter of an ongoing project designed to develop in a number of phases over the course of 2013 and devoted to the progressive formation of the Museo MADRE’s permanent collection in Naples.
In this first phase, distributed throughout the museum, the focus is not on a theme, a group or a historical period, but artists from different generations whose works were conceived as physical instruments and mentally linking thought and action in the form of performances, texts, theatrical actions, happenings, environmental installations, videos and films.
Per_forming a collection #1 aims to shape a collection which, like a living organism, grows and is articulated over time, combining archival research with commissions for new works to be created in situ, and uniting the dimension of the museum as a place of encounter and participation with the idea of the collection as an unending story, always open to new connections and explorations.
