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The Museo Archivio Laboratorio per le Arti Contemporanee Hermann Nitsch is located in a former factory built in 1892 for the production of electricity; conceived as a space for the documentation and in-depth study of the philosophical, poetic and visual themes developed by the great Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch (Vienna 1938), it is a place where the works (relics) of the actions of the Orgien Mysterien Theater (Theater of Orgies and Mysteries) regain consistency through a path open to synaesthetic experimentation. In 1957 Nitsch began to write the grammar of the Orgien Mysterien Theater, a complex form of total artwork/gesamtkunstwerk focused on BEING and on the sensual experience of real events (aktion) experienced through all the senses, possibly in synergy. The Museo Archivio Laboratorio per le Arti Contemporanee Hermann Nitsch, in the heart of the lively Pontecorvo district, was created by Giuseppe Morra, a friend of the Maestro and patron of his work since the 1970s. The exhibition itinerary - reformulated according to a two-yearly dynamic - proposes a lectio magistralis of the Viennese author whose vibrations, beauty, interweaving of codes, ritual celebration of life can be understood: "...only through art, artistic experience, can I reach very deep levels, and it is only at these deep levels that I want to celebrate existence" (H. Nitsch). Highlighting deep links of anthropological consistency, the Museum Archive Laboratory for Contemporary Arts Hermann Nitsch is proposed as a diversified territory of planning and reflection around the very essence of art, its languages, its dramaturgy, its phenomena, to support a broadening of knowledge of young people, artists, intellectuals, in a vision of openness to advanced research and scientific culture, in connection with a network of structures and national and international institutions with which the museum maintains relationships of mutual cooperation.
