Scheda opera Archivio Maria Morganti

The Work File was formulated by the artist when the archive was set up in 2010.
In 2023 a decision was made to integrate the work, which had already been done painstakingly and independently by Maria Morganti due to the need to organise her output, with a few revisions and additions which allow the cataloguing of the works to be brought into line with ministerial archival parameters. These do not alter the individuality of this archive, but instead identify questions which at the same time broaden its meaning.
The Work File is currently divided into sections that allow the information to be organised into precise conceptual areas.
The IDENTIFYING CODES permit the creation of an unequivocal connection between the work itself and its file and to officially record its archiving within the system. The archive number is recognised by the artist as the work’s ‘genetic baggage’.
The GENESIS OF THE WORK section contains all the information relating to how, where and when the work took conceptual and physical shape and specifies what phase of its material conformation and transformation (created, not created, destroyed, etc) it is in. Regarding the dating, a multiple system has been integrated that allows you to find three fundamental phases: conception, creation and production. Together, this information permits you to have an image of some fundamental concepts of the artist’s poetics: time, physicality, imagination and the work’s precariousness.
The IDENTIFYING INFORMATION provides the schematic and exhaustive description of what the work is composed of in its material aspects (title, technique, dimensions, inscriptions) and permits a conceptual reconnection of the work to the classification system by Series, Type, Colours that was devised by the artist right at the start of the archive’s existence.
The new section ARTIST AND OTHER ENTITIES is a segment of information where it is possible to acknowledge other professionals who have contributed to the development and creation of the work in some way, in line with what the artist has stated about the work of art not being solely the result of her individual production but – due to its nature – is the result of relationships and exchanges with the collective.
The TEXTS provide a more detailed description of the work and provide historical-critical interpretations that contextualise it both within the artist’s production and the artistic panorama of reference.
The section LOCALISATION AND ESSENTIAL CONDITIONS permits the identification of the
owners, the location, the state of conservation and the material events that have concerned the work over the years.
The CONCEPTUAL CONNECTIONS, RELATED and/or GENERATED WORKS, DOCUMENTS and EXHIBITIONS section allows you to create respectively the conceptual relationships between the works (identified in the first instance by the artist), ‘family’ relationships between them to emphasise the generative process that characterises the artist’s research. It also tells you where they were published, mentioned and exhibited.
The COMPILATION fields allow you to indicate the state of the file and to annotate any further procedural information for its cataloguing.
Lastly, the file can be integrated with various kinds of IMAGES, VIDEOS, AUDIO and ATTACHMENTS.
 
Structured in this way, the work file permits the integration of information relative to the material, historical and critical nature of the work as well as information about the artist’s work and research methods. It therefore allows us to respect both the cataloguing standards in force in the contemporary art panorama and to state contents on the artist’s specific practice with the aim of giving a classification code that can be interpreted independently by external observers without renouncing the peculiarities of the works that are inserted into the Archive work-system.
The artist recognises the file as having the status of a work precisely because she recognises the structure as being moulded to her specific requirements, making this archival work tool a means of conceptual reasoning on a par with other elements already present within the archive. As she herself states: ‘a poetic is expressed through the file, things that are considered essential for expressing a vision are emphasised’.

Apparatuses
"I decide to use all of those elements usually considered as equipment, tools, systems which transmit the work, such as the caption, the site, the archive etc., as an integral part of my work. It is almost as though I were going to define a sort of ecosystem, a world that is capable of defining itself.
All the works that are part of other series also belong to this one." Maria Morganti (2023)

Tool
Opere che possono essere utilizzate come strumenti per fare qualcos’altro nello studio e nell’archivio