L’antico alla prova del contemporaneo. Intersezioni tra archeologia ed arte nelle pratiche espositive del tempo presente / The past as challenged by the present. Intersections between archaeology and art in the contemporary exhibition practices

Hand in hand with the definition of Public Archaeology, increasingly in the last decade, museums and archaeological parks have become a crossroads of theoretical reflections, verifications and experimentation for contemporary art. The mapping of this active dialogue between archaeology and art gives a complex cartography of museums and archaeological sites that have modified their cultural proposal opening up to the contemporary art. This trend has characterized not only the museums and international sites programming, but has even oriented the research of small museums. Thus, through temporary exhibitions and permanent collections, archaeology has rethought its own theoretical foundations, its relationship with the public and society, turning its gaze to the trajectories of contemporary art. This essay reflects on the methods and methodology of this dialogue between the past and the present and analyzes some exemplary cases of this experience.