Le (in)felici coincidenze. Progetti mai realizzati e arte nello spazio pubblico attraverso l’archivio di MoRE. a Museum of refused and unrealised art projects

MoRE is a digital museum that collects, preserves, and exhibits online refused and unrealized art projects of the 20th and 21st centuries. The museum, born in 2012 and curated by a group of researchers and art historians, is available at www.moremuseum.org. The museum collects and exhibits projects that have not been realized due to technical, logistic, ideological, economical, or ethical reasons, or which were simply utopic or theoretical exercises around the theme of the unrealized. Among the over one hundred projects collected from artists’ studios and archives, there are many designed for the public space which have been presented on the occasion of calls and prizes, at the invitation of private and public institutions, since the early 2000s. This intervention is intended to focus on the perspectives around the public art unrealized project preservation, on its cultural potential and on how several factors – such as the different structure of each prize, the opportunities, the client, and the context – dialogue and affect the artists’ design strategies.