Moda / Museum Of Deposition Art /

On Thursday, 13th May 2010, at 7:00 pm, Fondazione Morra Greco will open the exhibition Moda / Museum Of Deposition Art / by Robert Kusmirowski and Glimpse by Roman Ondak.

The large installation produced by the Polish artist Robert Kuśmirowski especially for the basement of the Foundation centers on memory and on the ephemeral destiny of artworks. Kuśmirowski’s museum of lost works is a sort of archive in progress where, through donations and loans, mnestic traces and documents of lost artworks are kept and handed back to the future. Many times, especially in our contemporary world, complex artworks, large installations or even entire exhibitions live only for the duration of the show, afterwards being destroyed, dismantled or turned into something else. Nothing is left of them but the memory of visitors, photographic traces, some fragments and the mental project of the artist who conceived and produced them.
The purpose of Kuśmirowski’s museum is to collect these memorial residues, and to catalogue and organize them according to museum criteria in a sort of columbarium of lost creativity. Every work will be documented visually – through found pictures and images; physically – through small fragments of the materials they were made of, and theoretically – through abstracts of texts, accounts or anything that could help reconstruct their memory. All this documents will be archived into urns similar to those found in graveyards, playing the function of time capsules that will project their energy into the future. The first unit of the museum features fragments of works by Kuśmirowski and some of his artist friends, waiting for the contribution of other donors to enrich the archive with new elements, stories and documents. Kuśmirowski’s work, just like many of his artistic interventions, is bound to be extended for an indefinite time, as a growing organism, occupying new physical and mental spaces. New contributions are waited from donors willing to prolong the life of their lost works, as if driven by a sort of modern “piety” towards man’s creativity and his artefacts.

All images Courtesy Fondazione Morra Greco, Napoli
© Photo Danilo Donzelli