until Sunday October 06 2013
Mart
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corso Bettini 43
38068 Rovereto
Italy
The Mart’s rich collections have often been presented in thematic exhibitions, with a focus on a particular circumscribed group. The anniversary exhibition instead aims to construct a more extensive overview of the collection.
About 1200 works will enable the public to explore the Mart’s holdings in their integrity and variety, offering an experience that will have a fresh and unexpectedly powerful impact on visitors.
Frequently the taste directed by the obsessions typical of every collector has directed the creation and development of many of the collections donated or loaned to the Mart.
This is the starting point for “The magnificent obsession”, and will fill the whole of the Mart’s second floor. An unprecedented project for the Mart, this exhibition has been defined with an accumulation of adjectives by its director, Cristiana Collu: “Self-taught, water-diviner, auto-da-fé of works. Victim or protagonist, recomposed collection, disturbing and provocative, maniacal and fetishist. Obscure object of desire. Secret, sharing, intoxication, celebration. Giddiness of blending”.
The magnificent obsession” will offer a vision that is radically free of any temporal dimension; the works will be placed alongside each other in line with a criterion that might be defined a “preview of the present” or “archaeology of the future.
