THE CURATORS' QUADERNO - ISSUE 6 Now or Never: 13 Artists at Museo Sant'Orsola

The Curators' Quaderno - Issue 6, ph. Claudio Ripalti

Thirteen contemporary artist band together to reconstruct the history of an ancient convent in the center of future, soon to be a new museum.

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Museo Sant’Orsola is celebrating its final show prior to the complex’s restructuring and renovation: ‘The Rose that Grew from Concrete’, curated by Morgane Lucquet Laforgue. The exhibition showcases site-specific works by 13 international contemporary artists, as they respond to the venue’s multi-century history.

Now or Never is our sixth issue of The Curators’ Quaderno, and its title was taken from curator Morgane Lucquet Laforgue’s musings: “For the thirteen artists participating in this show, ‘The Rose that Grew from Concrete’, it is ‘now or never’, in the sense that they have embraced the opportunity to interact with Sant’Orsola as a construction site, in a way that will never be possible again, even after it is renovated. There are thirteen visions, on top of my own, but Sant’Orsola is, for everyone, the main protagonist.”

This edition of the notebook-style publication, created by Calliope Arts, with The Florentine, is sponsored by Christian Levett and FAMM, the first museum for art by women in Europe. To purchase your copy, press the image above.

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