The themes structuring this eclectic and eccentric collection show an interest in manual skill – materialized in a conspicuous collection of “hands” – and in work, literally “sung” by the cement mixer by David Hammons. The collector’s attention naturally turns to architecture: bricks by Andre alongside photographs by Basilico, buildings by Günther Förg and projects by Dan Graham and Vito Acconci. The problems relating to living are dealt with by the reflections on migration by Paci and Xhafa, by Armin Linke’s images of topographic distorsion as well as the homeless shelters by Brinkmann. This is, on the other hand, the cul-de-sac defined by the installation by Kirchoff. The interest in the work by Airò and Garutti is therefore no surprise. The former explores the architectural dimension of the imagination and the latter offers an emotive re-qualification of the public space. In this context, a look at the problem of the collection is necessary: from the rock picking by Long, one goes to the Dadaist accumulations by Hirschhorn, then to the playful erotica of Harem by Dal Pont. In the amplitude of this collection, the absences reverberate with multiplied force: among the hundreds of artworks, an attentive eye would easily spot them, because usually they coincide with historical periods in which art falls back on itself, like in the Expressionism and Citationism of the eighties.

On this occasion, there is a limited number of pieces from the collection of Elena Matous Radici, who in the nineties with her husband Fausto - to whose memory the space is dedicated - created an interesting experiment of artworks specifically made for their factory. The photographs of Carlo Valsecchi are part of this project, documenting the work space through a palette of pastel colors tending to monochrome, which gives rise to images where documentary precision and poetic abstraction come together.

There are also some works from the Academy of Visionaries, a group of friends who meet up periodically to discuss matters of art and to chose artworks to collect together. If visionary nature has always been the trigger of action which, throughout time, has changed reality, this could be the key to the interpretation of ALT’s aspirations: a place aiming to improve life through the visionary nature of art and where anyone can enter to transform a vision into a reality.