The selection of works from the MAMCO collection started from an initial exploration which, taking into account the MNBA collection, gave rise to the key elements of these interferences. The concept of randomness with its diverse modalities of intervention in the logic of selection is established as one of the essential notions. The other is related to the conditions of exhibition and materiality from the canonical account of artistic historiography and its perspectives – parodic, conceptual, deconstructive – on the basis of contemporary works.
Thus, this selection of works including One by Robert Filloux and Ideale Bildtemperatur by Thomas Huber as the spearhead of the series within this conceptual exercise is showcased in the historical halls on the ground floor of the MNBA. This project seeks to encourage other insights into contemporary art and into those works included in the canonical account of artistic historiography that look as though we have seen them already even before we lay our eyes on them. Thus, this clash between the past and the present resulting from the encounter of two collections equally valuable and distant from each other, aims to deactivate the inertia of the spectator and to open new roads for reflection.
