The Academy of Fine Arts of Macerata is pleased to announce Men, Only Men, Simply Men, an important group exhibition featuring forty leading figures in Italian art and culture. The exhibition will be held at GABA.MC – the Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts of Macerata, located in Piazza Vittorio Veneto 7.
Exactly one year after the exhibition Women (held in the same space), which emphasized the desire to move beyond simplistic gender labels to present a project free from passing trends—and which, through Tomaso Binga, expressed the wish to view the artist as a person who belongs to the world (“the artist is neither man nor woman, but a person without age, without nationality: they belong to the world”)—this new event, showcasing fifty-one figures from the Italian art scene, is not meant as a counterpoint or as a rigid separation into stereotypical male and female categories. Rather, it offers a perspective on the vibrant and diverse landscape of contemporary art.
This project aims to be free—free to choose without being constrained by linguistic correctness, free to construct a narrative untouched by the ceremonial clichés that, through sexisms and trendy phrases like politically correct, have in recent decades produced a parade of hollow exhibitions. It is also free to reaffirm the relevance of Italian art in a curatorial world increasingly confined by the senseless and narrow bounds of uncritical foreign-worship.
Men, Only Men, Simply Men is a journey mapped out through fifty-one cultural voices—voices that are deliberately and exclusively Italian—once again leaping over the boundaries of labels and gender to create a transgenerational dialogue.
This is not an exhibition that seeks to follow trends or champion a cause—particularly not in a time so often compromised by the shallow preoccupations of current politics. Nor is it an ideological formula aiming to represent something or someone. It is simply one of many possible snapshots of Italian art today—showcasing its vitality, professionalism, and creative energy.
Thanks to:
Archivio Vettor Pisani (Roma), Ex Elettrofonica (Roma), Fondazione Filiberto e Bianca Menna (Salerno-Roma), Galleria Alfonso Artiaco (Napoli), Galleria Tiziana Di Caro (Napoli), Galleria Umberto Di Marino (Napoli), Galleria Nicola Pedana (Caserta), Galleria Lia Rumma (Milano-Napoli), Galleria Paola Verrengia (Salerno), P420 (Bologna), Prometeo Gallery (Milano-Lucca), Shazar Gallery (Napoli), Studio Sales (Roma), Studio Stefania Miscetti (Roma), Galleria 100mq Arte Contemporanea (Santa Maria Capua Vetere), Otto Gallery (Bologna), Galleria Vannucci Arte Contemporanea (Pistoia).
Giulia Perugini
