In the middle, the title of the exhibition which inaugurates the new exhibition season of the MAN Museum, alludes to and implies a series of references ranging from the personal details of the six artists presented to their personal research path, from the proposed themes to today’s particular situation of MAN, to go so far as to refer to the beginning of what we celebrate as the next equally fortunate decade.

None of these artists has ever exhibited one of their works at the museum, had never been invited before this event and is not even present in the collection: in fact, the new MAN survey looks at the work of those who, despite having so far been constantly followed and esteemed , for random and various reasons he had never been invited to exhibit.

In the middle brings together six artists, including a designer, each of whom was asked to tell a story, with The right distance as Soddu’s title states, following Spatial Dynamics (Lostia) and scattering Precious Seeds (Idili). There are those who have done it by shooting with the brush Frames with horizon (Garau) and those who have held Black Suns with the camera (Delogu), everyone has drawn up a Mitjariga (Nieddu), a half line, a very permeable watershed between a before and after that perhaps does not exist in inexorable and silent transformations.

For this reason, with the six artists we shared the irony that we should all have when they ask us to make a budget that does not take into account the future, that next moment that we, at least we, would not want to miss. May this beauty and this irony catch us every time in the midst of any situation in our lives.