From 11 February to 30 April, the MAC Museum of Contemporary Art in Lissone opens Instants of History , a solo show by Maurizio Galimberti (Como, 1956) curated by Francesca Guerisoli and Denis Curti.

The exhibition presents the cycle inspired by the history of the twentieth century and its protagonists : sixty large-format works made up of photographic snapshots that reproduce some of the most "iconic" images of recent decades, through which the artist reinterprets collective memory.

The exhibition itinerary traces an itinerary by presenting reworkings of symbolic images drawn from current events, from cinematography and entertainment (the symbolic image of the film Easy Rider, Anna Magnani in Rome open city, the crying of Sofia Loren 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 entry of the Red Army into Berlin in 1945, the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the Middle East crisis and the terrorism of the 1940s 70, Mani Pulite, the attack on the Twin Towers); retraces the painful traumas of childhood (the child of the Warsaw Ghetto, the children of Mengele, the famous photo of the Vietnamese girl burned by Napalm); lingers in front of the greatest 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) up to the pandemic of Covid-19. The exhibition itinerary ends with a touching re-reading of the tragedy of Marcinelle, when on the hot summer day of 8 August 1956, one of the most serious mining accidents in history took place just outside the Belgian city: 262 dead, including 136 immigrants Italians. Maurizio Galimberti's cycle on history was produced on the basis of an idea by Paolo Ludovici and the works are part of the LUCHI Collection.