until Wed. January 20 2016

Musee de Art Modern et Contemporaine de Saint-Etienne Metropole
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La Terrasse
42 006 Saint-Etienne
France

PASSAGES

The Musee de art modern et contemporaine de Saint-Etienne Metropole is glad to host for the first time outside of Italy and in a public museum, the Fondazione VOLUME !.
The Foundation will present the exhibition Passages dedicated to the activity that takes place since 1997 in its historical space in Rome.

Passages is like a journey into the history of VOLUME!, that takes shape in the wide rooms of the Museum, as a village made up of several small “housing units”. The meaning of this element is not just architectonic but it can be found in the story of the exhibition space and as a permanent feature that has often tied the theme of the work to the space.
Each space contains a trace of the work that the artist realized in via San Francesco di Sales, maintaining its uniqueness and its transient state, and, at the same time, leads to the surface the memories layered on the walls of VOLUME!. In this unusual occasion, each work comes into a close relationship with the other, not only in a spatial system, but placing themselves on the same temporal level. This makes even more evident the primary purpose of the Foundation: that of being a place of total freedom, where the artist has the possibility of working autonomously, of modifying the space unconditionally, of giving a form to his idea, and offer it to the public. The exhibition path, designed by Anomia Studio, will be accompanied and highlighted by some works set on the walls of the exhibition space, contributing to the total transformation of the museum.