While Tornabuoni is well-known for presenting museum-quality Italian post-war art, the curator Fatoş Üstek, drawing inspiration from the homonymous novel by the Czech-born, French writer Milan Kundera, has looked at a wide and international array of artists in the collection, who experimented with untraditional media and new and influential artistic positions. The curator has sought to link works through a conceptual, rather than chronological thread, juxtaposing works by artists of different generations and nationalities and creating new dialogues between them. Although Üstek is a specialist in contemporary art, she is drawn to art of the post-war period, finding that it offers fertile ground for looking at a world of social and political unrest and for exploring human relationships and tensions through the lens of artistic experimentation.