A museum as precarious as an errant boulder, which isn’t where it should be, or in place without a reason. A contrary to a non-place, without being a monument. A museum of fragility, chaos, emergency, contradiction, precariousness, of human nature or rubble. A museum dedicated to slight actions that serve to remind us who we are, or what we might become. A central and marginal place at the same time. kunsthalle novi is a “museum” inspired by the great twentieth-century tradition of “canned museums” or portable museums, derived from Duchamp. It is, to be more precise, an “artist-run space” founded through the initiative of local artists, currently located in a small niche on the external wall of the Town Hall in Novi Ligure, but that could be in the future relocated elsewhere in the city. It has its own wall-plate. We like to consider kunsthalle novi (whose acronym echoes a fundamental text of the Italian abstractism, Carlo Belli’s Kn) as a proponent of a desirable participatory practice, closer to contemporary theories of architecture and landscape where the disorientation, the processuality, the error, the rules of harmony dictated by chance take on profound feelings and affections. kunsthalle novi was established on Oct 10th, 2015 on the occasion of Materia, a group show curated by Massimo Palazzi in the historical center of Novi Ligure, Italy, including Andrea Botto, Sara Enrico, Giancarlo Norese, Elisa Strinna, and Luca Vitone.
