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Therefore, MUCIV involves its public in participating in the reflections around the rearrangement of the collections and the gradual restitutions\u00a0to\u00a0the community. In this process, the various chapters of the <strong><em>Museo delle\u00a0Opacit\u00e0<\/em>\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>(<strong><em>Museum of Opacities\u2019)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0project\u00a0go in-depth\u00a0on individual aspects and thematic focal points, bringing into dialogue\u00a0<strong>historical evidence with new research, contemporary art interventions, and the involvement of the interested communities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In this second chapter, which follows the one that opened in 2023, the focus is on the relationship between\u00a0<strong>agriculture and colonial architecture<\/strong>\u00a0analysing\u00a0&#8211; through\u00a0<strong>documents, photographs, and works of art from the era<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; aspects such as the economic exploitation of\u00a0human, environmental, and geological, resources, or the relationship between art and propaganda in the history of Italian colonialism in\u00a0<strong>Eritrea, Somalia, Libya,<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Ethiopia<\/strong>.\u00a0Emblematic,\u00a0in this second\u00a0chapter,\u00a0is the selection of photographic documentation of some of the main colonial exhibitions that took place on Italian territory, starting from the\u00a0<strong><em>International Exhibition of Navy and Marine Hygiene<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(<strong><em>Esposizione Internazionale di Marina e Igiene marinara<\/em><\/strong>) in<strong>\u00a0Genoa<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0<strong>1914<\/strong>\u00a0to the\u00a0<strong><em>First Triennial Exhibition of Italian Overseas Lands<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(<strong><em>Prima Mostra Triennale delle Terre Italiane\u00a0d&#8217;Oltremare<\/em><\/strong>) in\u00a0<strong>1940<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0<strong>Naples<\/strong>, passing through\u00a0<strong>Rome<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Milan,<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Bari<\/strong>. The\u00a0<strong>documentary funds<\/strong>\u00a0of the former\u00a0<strong>IsIAO\u00a0<\/strong>(<strong>Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient<\/strong>) also contribute to sharing the ongoing research, which complements the exhibition thanks to the collaboration with the\u00a0<strong>National Central Library in Rome<\/strong>.\u00a0Some in-depth tools integrate the exhibition path, allowing the selected materials to\u00a0be\u00a0contextualised\u00a0within the more general framework of colonial policies and economies, and a\u00a0programme\u00a0of guided tours, educational activities, and public events will offer further moments of discussion.<\/p>\n<p>The connection to the contemporary scenarios is entrusted, in this second chapter, to two installations:\u00a0<strong><em>Rights to Seeds, Rights of Seeds<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>Cooking Sections<\/strong>, acquired thanks to the\u00a0<strong><em>PAC-Piano per\u00a0l&#8217;arte\u00a0contemporanea<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by the Italian Ministry of Culture, and\u00a0<strong><em>Entity of Decolonizations: Ashes<\/em><\/strong>, which represents the concluding intervention of the three-year research conducted at the museum by\u00a0<strong>DAAR &#8211; Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti<\/strong>\u00a0as\u00a0<em>Research Fellow<\/em>. Works of art from the historical collections of the former Colonial Museum include contributions by the artists\u00a0<strong>Domenico De Bernardi, Gariesus Gabret, Laurenzio Laurenzi, Giorgio Oprandi, Yohannes Tesamma, Giustino Varvelli, Teodoro Wolf Ferrari, and Yitb\u0101rak<\/strong>, in dialogue with three works from the MUCIV Contemporary Art Collections, by\u00a0<strong>Peter Friedl, Jermay Michael Gabriel, and Adelita Husni-Bey.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a0Wednesday, May 21st, 2025, the\u00a0MUCIV-Museum of Civilizations\u00a0presents\u00a0Museo delle Opacit\u00e0 (Museum of Opacities) #2.\u00a0Colonial Agricultures and Architectures\u00a0is the new chapter of the project,\u00a0curated by Rosa Anna Di Lella, Gaia Delpino, and Matteo Lucchetti,\u00a0dedicated to the reorganization and re-displaying of the collections of the\u00a0former Colonial Museum of Rome, which became part of MUCIV in 2017 and are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":270682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[1259],"mec_speaker":[],"class_list":["post-275245","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-rearrangement"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Museo delle Opacit\u00e0 #2 al MUCIV-Museo delle Civilt\u00e0<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Museo delle Opacit\u00e0 #2. 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