In Lissone, Maurizio Galimberti's solo exhibition with instants of 20th century history

From February 11 to April 30, 2023, MAC Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Lissone presents Istanti di storia, a solo exhibition by Maurizio Galimberti (Como, 1956), curated by Francesca Guerisoli and Denis Curti.

On display for the first time to the public will be the complete cycle inspired by the history of the twentieth century and its protagonists: sixty large-format works formed by assemblages of photographic snapshots that repropose some of the most iconic images of recent decades, through which the artist rereads collective memory.

Galimberti selects photographs by other authors, among the most representative of the events that have marked the most recent past, photographs them several times from different perspectives, and breaks them down and recomposes them into a mosaic. “These mosaics do not intend to explain facts, nor do they intend to give precise answers about the course of history, but, when viewed in their totality, they appear as a sampler of memorable events that through artistic intervention are freed from historicized documentation to take on the ethereal appearance of contemporary relics,” Denis Curti comments.

The exhibition itinerary develops chronologically, presenting reworkings of iconic images taken from the world ofcurrent events, cinematography and entertainment (the moon landing, the iconic image of the film Easy Rider, Anna Magnani in Roma città aperta, Sofia Loren’s weeping in La Ciociara, Jimi Hendrix with his guitar, the tragedy of the Grande Torino); delves into the darkness of history (the Battle of Iwo Jima, the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the Red Army’s entry into Berlin in 1945, the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the Middle East crisis and terrorism of the 1970s, Clean Hands, the attack on the Twin Towers); traces the painful traumas of childhood (the Warsaw Ghetto child, Mengele’s children, the famous photo of the Vietnamese girl burned by Napalm); dwells before the great personalities of the twentieth century (Che Guevara with his famous cigar, Martin Luther King, Pope John Paul II, Aldo Moro, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, Michail Gorbačëv and Boris Yeltsin, Nelson Mandela) until the Covid-19 pandemic.

The exhibition itinerary ends with an unprecedented work: a touching reinterpretation of the Marcinelle tragedy, when on the hot summer day of August 8, 1956, not far from the Belgian town one of the most serious mining accidents in history took place: 262 people died, including 136 Italian immigrants.

The exhibition is produced and promoted by Comune di Lissone.

For info: www.museolissone.it

Hours: Wednesday and Friday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Thursday 4 to 7 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to noon and 3 to 7 p.m.

Free admission.

Image: Maurizio Galimberti, Disinfestation in Wuhan, 2020 (2021), mosaic with Fuji-instax, 148 x 95 cm. LUCHI Collection

In Lissone, Maurizio Galimberti's solo exhibition with instants of 20th century history

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