ANDREA SALA
@ LA COLLECTIONNEUSE
CURATED BY LUCA LO PINTO
24 JANUARY - 14 MARCH, 2025
Scenography: Maria Magdalena David, Leah Friedman, Illona Rougemond-Mosconi
La Collectionneuse is an exhibition that grew out of an invitation to develop a project on the basis of Silvia Fiorucci's collection. It is a show without any other theme than the idea of a collection as a portrait of a person. While based on a selection of works carried out by Silvia Fiorucci, La Collectionneuse aims to evoke the figure of an imaginary collector. Unlike public institutions, private collections reflect the tastes and interests of an individual, although the collector often aspires to turn them into a shared resource, ultimately restoring them to the community. In this sense, the criteria that determine their constitution can be absolutely variable, whether these are formal, conceptual or personal. In the words of the famous maxim by Goethe, “collectors are happy people”.
In choosing the works to be displayed, I adopted a similar approach, opting for those that differ in terms of language, geography and imaginary aspects, following an intuitive and associative approach. The exhibition has been conceived as a composition, a mise-en-scène aimed at transforming the Quai's space into a domestic environment in which design objects, paintings, sculptures, drawings and carpets are freely juxtaposed to suggest the wunderkammer – cabinet of curiosities – of the collector. While the usual way of exhibiting works in a museum is intended to convey some self-proclaimed neutrality and objectivity, here we have sought to create a total environment that requires no explanation and where those who enter are invited to let their curiosity guide them.
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Image: Pierre Morrel
