Chereditary characteristics and genetic mutations is the title of the exhibition that the MAN Museum inaugurated by bringing its collection into dialogue with six living artists who, translating the momentum of From the twentieth century to today, confirm the contemporary vocation of the museum and the need to represent the legacy that our era will leave as a legacy. The declination of the project involved a male and a female gaze with the six artists of different generations relating to the works of the Collection.
The artists are represented by the very young Rachele Sotgiu, the solid Giusy Calia and the vigorous Zaza Calzia who pulverizes any doubts about her vision of the world, while the artists are Graziano Salerno, Vincenzo Pattusi and Vincenzo Grosso: a talented promise and two brilliant bets of this territory. The Collection is one of the most important testimonies of the growth, evolution and constant commitment of the museum. A complex and difficult work, made up of accelerations, stasis and new impulses that define a continuously evolving path that does not end in the exaltation of some fixed points, but which makes his singular research in the isolated artistic panorama an exclusive characteristic that gives space to lesser-known, but no less interesting, works and authors, who, thanks to the results of their journey, provide a context of exquisite and unexpected richness.
In an attempt to redefine the perception of heritage and identity, the MAN invited contemporary artists to an open dialogue, creating suggestive spaces of suspension, contemplation and short circuit, real stations on a path that weaves together precise conversations with the masters of the history of art in Sardinia. The shared space invited reflection and at the same time offered as a whole an effective image of the quality of the different artistic languages. On this occasion the works that each artist chose functioned as a sort of punctuation of their speech, a device that to some extent helped to define its meaning and rhythm. For the inauguration Giovanni Carroni read Graziano Salerno’s story The legend of the freed man .
