Rimini museums

The Museum of Regards assembles relics found in various continents by numerous travellers and collectors. For this reason it talks, at the same time,of the curiosity of these men as well as of those they were interested in.

It is generally well-known that the point of view which westerners observe other population has changed in time, sometimes with reference to the particular conditions in which they came into contact with these others. But it is also known that this change has not been  very linear and in relation to the other, new images can be added to the old without the latter disappearing straightaway.

Nowadays, for instance, in Europe, we have a much more common , familiar pictures of Africans and Asian. But that does not stop us presuming to evoke the mysterious character of the African and Asian continents.

The museum of Regards would like to render its visitors more attentive to the reflective dimension of our relationship with the art of the others, by revealing it from the  different aspects that it has assumed according to our gaze:scandalous, in the first >Christian glance which succeeded in perceiving exotic proof of the existence of the devil;surprising, in the gaze of the first travellers of the scientist who began to catalogue the wonders of nature; instructive, in the eyes of the archaeologists and the first ethnographers who discovered the first  signs of life and culture; disturbing, for the first representatives of modern art - surrealist  or cubist painters- who saw in this “other” art another vision of the world, a different view that find different to theirs; sublime, at times, in the eyes of those who have a revelation of the formal splendour of some of the objects without fretting about ethnological knowledge. Nowadays, we are all more or less accustomed to the varied, stereotype forms of” tourist” art, created for trade, way beyond any metaphysical or religious  concern .But “indigenous” art is also a stimulus for the plastic arts that search for new sources of inspiration in this era of globalisation and aesthetic uniformity. A thousand paths, a thousand renewed invitation to dream, to reflect and to try to follow the signs on a journey along a known itinerary that will lead us from yesterday to tomorrow, from scandal to admiration, but that we can follow in all senses, retracing our footsteps when necessary because we constantly need to be surprised, to understand and to admire.