One of the most wonderful aspects of Azuma the man and the artist was his awareness that reality is always in the act of becoming, even when it seems to have ended. This consideration is also true of his work, work in which the material does not hide its limits but rather contains something of the process in it, a quality that gives the viewer the impression that it is ever in the process of becoming. This exhibition was conceived by Azuma and myself with the help of his son and my friend Anri. The fact that one of the three of us will not be physically present at the inauguration confirms the fact that the dialogue is still open; that there are still things to be said, that an infinite colloquy can exist, just like the MU.
Matteo Lorenzelli
