The exhibition and the catalogue DNA: From the twentieth century to today. The MAN collection they are the photograph not only of our collection but also of the museum as an institution, one of the most important testimonies of its growth, its evolution and its constant work. It shows that we believe that one of the museum’s missions is to research, acquire, conserve and exhibit the works of its collection, a complex and difficult job, made up of accelerations, stasis and new impulses that define a perpetual path that began in 1999 with our first one hundred and thirty works, the initial nucleus of the collection at the time of the museum’s opening. In the meantime we have tried to fill the gaps, enriching with purchases, donations and loans a collection that we illustrate today in its entirety, taking stock, describing the here and now because a collection is always evolving, always growing to become richer and important, also for this reason we thought of a new definition, not any more An art journey in Sardinia in the 20th century but From the twentieth century to today. There MAN collection, with an acronym DNA, which seems to us to be a splendid synthesis of what it represents: our roots, our essence and our future, what makes us unique, different, special, our genetic map where the potential of the future is found in nuce. The future asks us to prepare the way for it, and we prepare new exhibitions by selflessly cultivating the visitors of tomorrow through an increasingly accurate and incisive Education department and Teaching section, with the precise intention of eliminating the distances between people and the museum.
The exhibition saw the display, in a new layout, of over 200 works through a chronological path full of thematic ideas (women, landscape, still life), small cameos dedicated to individual artists (Biasi, Ballero, Ciusa , Delitala, Nivola, Pintori, to name a few), the largest public collection of drawings by Salvatore Fancello, up to Antonio Secci, Gino Frogheri, Rosanna Rossi, Maria Lai and others.
