Monstra: a prodigious exhibition - Trentino Historical Museum Foundation
From 8 March to 8 June 2025 at Le Gallerie di Piedicastello you can visit the exhibition "Monstra: una ...
From 8 March to 8 June 2025 at Le Gallerie di Piedicastello you can visit the exhibition "Monstra: una mostra prodigiosa".
More than just an exhibition of contemporary art, MONSTRA: A prodigious exhibition, is an intense journey into the depths of the human soul where fascination and thrill for the monstrous are intertwined in a single, inescapable embrace.
Through the languages of visual art, from painting to sculpture, video, installation and performance, the exhibition proposes a reinterpretation of the imaginary linked to the monster, or rather to the MONSTRAs that have come to our present.
Contemporary art, therefore, but not only: the collaboration with the Fondazione Museo storico del Trentino has been fundamental for an archival research of what were the monsters of the twentieth century: propaganda, war, colonialism, social differences; thanks to the loans of the MuSe it will also be possible to find on display some mirabilies related to the scientific world and pseudosciences; in addition, thanks to the collaboration with the METS of San Michele all 'Adige (TN), there will be the opportunity to dive into the cultural anthropology of the territory through the discovery of some monstrous masks of the carnival tradition.
The even more surprising aspect of the exhibition is the amount of references to these worlds apparently distant from each other, but united by the attraction for what, deep down, we do not know, and which belongs to the still unexplored realm of fantasy. It will be the task of the 26 artists on display to tie back the thematic references behind the symbol of the monster, break down the barriers of prejudice and guide visitors through a deliberately fluid set-up path full of free associations, proposing figurations that suggest new hybridizations and chimeras, small apocalyptic worlds and references to the inner monster that, with an effort to reverse perspective, we try to hide behind our daily masks.
