Space design for the exhibition "La Collectionneuse" curated by Luca Lo Pinto, from January 24 to March 14 2025 at La Società delle Api in Monaco
"La Collectionneuse is an exhibition born of an invitation to design a project based on Silvia Fiorucci's collection. An exhibition with no other subject than the idea of a collection as a portrait of a person. Based on a selection of works from Silvia Fiorucci's collection, La Collectionneuse aims to evoke the figure of an imaginary collector. Unlike public institutions, private collections respond to the tastes and interests of an individual, although the collector's desire is to make them a common good, and so they are returned to the community. In this sense, the criteria that determine their nature are quite variable: they can be formal, conceptual or personal. As Goethe famously said, “Collectors are happy people”. [...]
The layout of the works is deliberately dense to suggest a place halfway between a collector's home, a living room and a studio. A work of art, once in the hands of an individual, becomes a sentimental object that doesn't have to meet the criteria of cultural valuation and analysis, as would be the case in a museum, but exists solely according to the wishes of the person who owns it. For example, one might decide to install a work of art in an unusual space (such as a bathroom), hang a painting above a sofa according to an exclusively chromatic logic, use a sculpture as a simple utensil, personalize a work of art with a fancy frame or display. Under these conditions, there are no rules, no consistency to be respected, everything is subjective. [...]
The selection of works and the scenography that hosts them develop a narrative in which the original function and value of individual elements are transformed, making the objects presented signs prone to acquiring and generating other meanings."
Luca Lo Pinto
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