The macLYON has exhibited its collection since its creation through a series of selected works, a kind of striptease that alludes to the totality of the collection yet to be discovered. Here, we have some thirty or so artworks: nine were exhibited as part of the various Biennales de Lyon, and eight are artworks that are on show for the first time. The remaining works have been presented in the various exhibitions and retrospectives organized by the museum.

In recent times—a decade or two ago—art defi nitively adopted as its guiding principle ‘a disregard for rules’, a surpassing of the limits and categories that had been laid down a century or two previously. The form, medium, narrative, and even the subject or the object of a work of art have undergone the inexorable erosion of multiple deconstructions. Today, in art, anything and everything is possible. The artwork is no longer concerned with such and such a form, it can make use of them all; the medium is no longer a single one, it can be multiple, selected by chance or for its relevance; the narrative eschews linearity; and both the subject and object can be either present or absent.