valid until 9 April due to the Museum’s first-floor closing
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MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.
31 Mar 2024 ore 11:30
guided toursJannis KounellisNotte
31 Mar 2024 ore 16:30
MAXXI in famigliaAlla scoperta del MAXXI con Stella
3 Apr 2024 ore 17:30
books at MAXXIIl Ducettoby Alessandro De Nicola
5 Apr 2024 ore 18:00
books at MAXXILo Stemmaby Fulvio Abbate
10 Apr 2024 ore 17:00
Visita guidata per docentiIl MAXXI incontra la scuola
10 Apr 2024 ore 18:00
libri al MAXXIA te vicino così dolcedi Serena Bortone
Asterios Polyp
Presentation of the graphic novel by David Mazzucchelli
Friday 20 April, 18.30
MAXXI B.A.S.E. Meeting Room – admittance free
The protagonist of the graphic novel by David Mazzucchelli (Rhode Island, 1960), one of the most innovative authors in this genre, is a fifty-year-old architect Asterios Polyp. Born to a Greek father and an Italian mother, he is a successful New York professional, a “paper architect”, a professor more famous for his projects that his built work. His vision of architecture and the world is a rigid duality composed of irreconcilable oppositions: rational and irrational, straight lines and curves, art and life.
MAXXI is hosting an encounter/dialogue discussing the disciplinary, existential and narrative issues aroused by the book and conducted by Renato Pallavicini, a journalist, architect and comic book expert, who will illustrate the plot and meanings of the book, with the assistance of the projections of drawings, plates and details.
The other invited guests are: Franco Purini, an architect who has made drawing is particular tool of research and who will discuss “paper architecture”, enriching the account with his own theoretical-graphic reflections; Francesco Pacifico, writer, journalist and translator of the Italian edition of Asterios Polyp, will examine the relationships between literature and the graphic novel and those between the characters and real life.