Issue after issue, the chosen topics will be tackled from a dual perspective: that of ‘physics’, with an analytical and philological approach, at times genuinely scientific, and that of ‘metaphysics’, to support a vision of a narrative and philosophical nature. The title of the series takes this dual nature into account, paying homage to Giorgio de Chirico, the father of Metaphysics, one of Cerruti's favourite artists and of whom ten paintings are part of the collection.

The first three issues of the Journals will be edited by Andrea Cortellessa, literary critic and literature historian, to whom the conception of this dual approach and of the series title is owed.

Journal no. 2, Morals of the Collection traces a phenomenology of the contemporary collector through the ‘metaphysical’ contributions of the writer Michele Mari, entitled Homo collector and the art historian and collector Giuseppe Garrera, who signs Self-Portrait as a Bourgeois Collector. The ‘physical’ perspective of being a collector is explored by the writer Elio Grazioli starting from the place that holds the collection, in The Collector’s Home; and at the end of the issue, from a text by Marco Vallora in A Friend’s Memories, already published in the Catalogue of the collection(2021). The publication also includes an intervention by the artist Gala Porras-Kim (Bogotà, 1984) from the project Least likely to be on view, an investigation into the meaning of works in the deposits of museum and institution collections.