Installation with audio loop (8:00, 4 channels), original poster, and documents at MAGA Museum, Gallarate, for the exhibition “Voglio vedere il mie Montagne”, 7.2 – 15.3 2015.

The Installation refers to an exhibition of Italian amateur painters organized in 1964 at the Gewerbemuseum in Winthertur, Switzerland. A voice audible via the MAGA Museum’s loudspeakers reads the list of the participants of the 1964 show, including their name, place of residency in Switzerland, profession and work-titles. Because of their special status as temporary migrant workers, this population was often not allowed to bring their families over to Switzerland. The question of their ‘tempo libero’ (free-time) was then perceived as a ‘problem’ by the Swiss authorities. The soundscape of names, places and work-titles interacts in various ways with the artworks by Italian post-war masters such as Fontana, Boriani or Colombo, which are displayed in the same section of the exhibition at MAGA.