#MUSEO LABORATORIO

The Laboratory Museum is a civic institution under the aegis of the City of Sant'Angelo's municipal administration, the Cultural Alderman of the Pescara Province and with the support of the Abruzzi Region. The Cultural Affairs commission of the regional has recognized the museum government since the March of 2002. While occasional projects have received either corporate or individual support, the museum relies on its artists' and patrons' generous contributions of both skill and time.
The management of the Laboratory Museum operates according to its criteria of openness and contamination among artists. Projects receive non-profit support. It is hoped that the works produced within the laboratory setting will become part of the permanent collection of purchased and donated works.
If the current risk is to consider ourselves wireless, that is without bonds, the Laboratory Museum of the City of Sant'Angelo is to make ties, roots and leaves connecting people and things: an abode of worker bees between earth and heaven, of mountain and sea vapors, a cistern of rain water for all.
In 2001 the Laboratory Museum, under the artistic direction of Enzo De Leonibus, was created within a former tobacco works. The purpose was to maintain the open space of the existing building and to dedicate it to the ongoing experimentation of all forms of contemporary visual arts. The Laboratory Museum is primarily a meeting and a working place for artists rather than an exhibition area. As Enzo De Leonibus describes it, the Laboratory Museum strives "to create a determining atmosphere of interpersonal relations for the artists' lives and projects, a place of increasing importance in the contemporary art world. It is to be a sort of no-man's-land to modulate and carry out projects and obsessions."

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