This exhibition opens to the public the totally renovated rooms of Villa Malpensata, now home to the MUSEC. For many years, Villa Malpensata was the meeting point between great art and the City of Lugano. Today, the historic building complex overlooking Lugano’s lakefront has been renovated and modernised, becoming larger and even more welcoming. Thus, it is preparing to return to the centre of the cultural scene in Ticino and the entire Insubria Region. After a few previews, Villa Malpensata thus inaugurates its new exhibition rooms with an exhibition promoted by MUSEC and the Museo Nazionale Romano with Electa. The project is curated by Francesco Paolo Campione with Maria Grazia Messina. After an initial stop at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome, it continues with a dialogue between eighty works including sculptures by great masters of the 20^th century and masterpieces of ethnic and popular art dating from the 18^th to the early 20^th century, together with a selection of pre-Columbian works. Je suis l’autre is a thematic journey through the act of creation, the unconscious and myths, and is conceived as a map guiding the visitor through the formal revolution of 20^th century sculpture, born precisely from the encounter between avant-garde artists and ethnic and folk art. From the beginning of the 20^th century, in fact, that process of language renewal that had already involved painting also began for sculpture: with the desire to break free from the canons of verisimilitude, sculptors took up the idea of being able to express their inner worlds. The naive, spontaneous and life-affirming expressive universe of so-called ‘primitive’ art was, in this sense, a true ‘revelation’.