Beatrice Bertini and Benedetta Acciari were invited to curate an exhibition for Casa Italia that could strengthen the values shared by art and sport; this is how the MUSA project was born.

In addition to being protectors of the arts, the Muses are those who preserve memory and inspire and protect all human knowledge. In classical mythology these figures accompanied the gods, who were believed to watch over the physical and spiritual education of the young. From our knowledge of the ancient world, we know that myth is necessary to open up a precise explanation for what cannot be explained empirically; thus, for the Greeks, the Muses represented the phenomenon of inspiration—that moment in which one gains access to a stroke of genius, to an intuition that will change ourselves, history, and the world around us.

Artists: Claudio Abate, Juan Araujo, Arman, John Armleder, Atelier dell’Errore, Matteo Attruia, Per Barcley, Jessie Boswell, Fernando Botero, Christo, Ifeyinwa Joy Chiamonwu, Elmgreen & Dragset, Slawomir Elsner, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Chung EunMo, Geltin, John Giorno, Itamar Gov, Wang Haiyang, Keith Haring & L.A. II, Craigie Horsfield, Bryan Hunt, Joseph Kosuth, JR, Hayv Kahraman, William Kentridge, Jannis Kounellis, Susanne Kutter, Sol LeWitt, Miltos Manetas, Matta, Gerhard Merz, Mario Merz, Jonathan Monk, Davide Monteleone, Vik Muniz, Shirin Neshat, Denis Oppenheim, Adrian Paci, Park Eun Sun, Van Pei-Ming, Alejandra Varela Perera, Laura Pugno, Davide Rivalta, Ugo Rondinone, Anri Sala, Eva Sajovicc, Daniel Spoerri, Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Newsha Tavakolian, David Tremlett, Iihi Turjeman, Tursic & Mille, Cy Twombly, Ben Vautier, Uwe Wittwer, Sislej Xhafa.

Photo: Omaggio a Wilson Bentley 14, 2019, pigment and snow on paper, 70 x 50 cm