– Chiara Gatti –

Next Saturday, on the occasion of the Giornata del contemporaneo promoted by AMACI, the Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums, the MAN proposes a round table on the theme “Museum and community“. The lunge is aligned with the topics under discussion, namely the museum and plural education, the museum and education, but above all the museum as a place for sharing experiences and knowledge.

The MAN, as a museum that has always operated in the area, trying to listen, preserve and enhance the identity of the place and its tangible and intangible heritage, today questions itself on what other walls to tear down so that it is possible to leave its spaces entirely to inhabit the areas of the community, spreading into the neighborhoods on the margins, encroaching on the landscape.

Not an action of appropriation, typical of many historical land art interventions, but of respectful grafting between polarities, where the vitality of the museum can be welded with that of the territory on which it stands, generating and nourishing – by botanical metaphor – the foliage of an exemplary future. Each part, while preserving its own identity, would thus enrich the other and, at the same time, a common fabric. Participation, sustainability, collectivity, are the words that return in today’s lexicon of art. And we are witnessing, in fact, the opening of museums to natural contexts, but also peripheral ones, where the need for dialogue becomes more urgent.

The MAN saw Virgilio Sieni dance on the nuraghe of Tanca Manna; he accompanied the artists in residence along the paths of the Supramonte; he financed (with the Academy of Sassari) a sailing trip off the coast of Planargia, and then entered the quarries of Suni; and, again, he baked ritual breads with the citizens of Villaurbana in the touching project by Ilaria Turba, I pani del desiderio, currently exhibited in the project room.

During the round table – animated by speakers who know and live within the community – we will talk about many important stages of a cultural journey of which the physical building of our museum represents only a rest station, an intermediate stop on the map of a widespread experience