LA COLLEZIONE. Per una storia del Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna

The Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna’s collections have undergone a complex yet necessary reconfiguration after MAMbo’s opening in May, 2007, as well as in view of the forthcoming definition of new exhibition spaces within Palazzo d’Accursio – which will grant visibility to its set of works from the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century. The institution’s various seats will hence cooperate in an integrated municipal system, ideally crowned by the Museo Morandi, already endowed with the richest collection of works from the bolognese master and on the verge of opening to the public the artist’s home in October, 2009. The picture is completed by the extraordinary example of civil testimony offered by Christian Boltanski’s installation in the Museo per la Memoria di Ustica.

Within this system, MAMbo is the seat most devoted to contemporary artistic research, to innovative cultural projects and to the need for an up-to-date critical assessment of languages and trends in present art. Such tendency has always characterized the activities and institutional goals of the Galleria d'Arte Moderna; keeping up with this tradition, however, requires an unrelenting and perhaps paradoxical methodological transgression which MAMbo interprets today as the need for a cross-eyed overview of emerging art, without losing sight of those artistic occurrences which, more than merely involving the Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, have grounded its foundation. Study of the present and investigation of presuppositions: these are the main research guidelines the museum is currently engaged to. Such sections offer a self-representation of the history of the museum’s collections themselves, and are temporarily titled “Arte astratta e informale”, “Arte e ideologia”, “Per una storia della GAM (1968-2008). Estratti”, “Focus on Contemporary Italian Art”.