Post Scriptum. A museum forgotten by heart
Curated by Luca Lo Pinto
MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome
4 October 2024 – 14 February 2025

Forgetting by heart is an expression coined towards the end of the 1960s by Vincenzo Agnetti (1926-1981). The title of the group exhibition that concludes the programming of MACRO under the artistic direction of Luca Lo Pinto borrows the phrase to suggest an approach to the results of a project that over a span of five years has led the museum, as an institution, to question its own identity, its own modes of production and relation with artists and the audience.

The works on view include pieces by historically acclaimed artists like Luciano Fabro, Isa Genzken, Simone Forti, and by some of the most outstanding exponents of the younger art scene, such as Issy Wood, together with the opportunity to come across more rarely seen figures like Pierre Guyotat or Absalon, or others who have brought an artistic perspective to fashion, such as Maurizio Altieri, and to design, including Paolo Pallucco & Mireille Rivier. The overview also focuses on emerging artists like Hamishi Farah and Sandra Mujinga.

Post Scriptum. A museum forgotten by heart is an exhibition that mirrors Editorial, the group show spreading through the entire museum in 2020, launching Lo Pinto’s programming with a statement of intentions and directions. Following the metaphor of a magazine, the project has developed across five years with an editorial structure of eight thematic sections, corresponding to the various rooms of the museum. Some have investigated the idea of the exhibition itself, while others have challenged its conventions, incorporating figures from outside the system and other languages like design, music, publishing: a palimpsest composed of over 60 exhibitions, involving 250 artists, under the title of Museum for Preventive Imagination.