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Gio Ponti. Loving architecture
REOPENING: 22-23-24/29-30-31 May and from 2 June on the usual opening days and hours
40 years on from his death, MAXXI is dedicating a major retrospective to him that studies and presents his versatility, starting out with an account of his architecture.
At Home 20.20
progetti per l’abitare contemporaneo
RIAPERTURA: dal 18 giugno 2020
Una ricognizione che spazia dai progetti di edilizia economica e popolare del dopoguerra a nuovi modi di abitare il pianeta, sperimentali ed ecosostenibili
Architecture, silence and light. Louis Kahn in the...
The exhibition re-opens on Friday, 2 October.
A focus show on the architecture of Louis Kahn through the photographs of Roberto Schezen.
Giovanni Gastel. The People I like
200 people, 200 portraits of a never seen Gastel. Faces who: «Have passed on something to me, taught me, touched my soul».
Isaac Julien. Lina Bo Bardi — Un meraviglioso groviglio
«Time is not linear, it is a marvellous tangle in which, at any moment, ends can be chosen and solutions invented, without beginning or end».
YAP ROME AT MAXXI 2020
The Young Architects Program, launched and coordinated by MoMA, reaches its 8th edition at MAXXI.
CASA MONDO
Seven leading international designers have been asked to investigate and present their vision regarding seven themes and functions of habitation.
Prix Italia. Settantaduesima edizione Public Service and the Virtual Newsroom: Back to the Future?
Per la prima volta dopo l’emergenza Covid19 si riuniscono broadcaster provenienti da tutti i continenti. Parte così la settantaduesima edizione del Prix Italia, concorso organizzato dalla Rai per programmi di qualità radio, tv e web.
THE INDEPENDENT. Max Fletcher
Three canvases combine words, painting and gestures in a critical rethinking of the past as a means of building friendships, solidarity and alliances.
Upcoming
Alketa Xhafa Mripa in conversazione con Hou Hanru
Donne, diritti umani e società, al MAXXI incontriamo l'artista kosovara sostenitrice della verità.
Sandro Veronesi. Abitare la scrittura
Un incontro tra letteratura e architettura, tra cambiamento e storia del nostro modo di vivere la casa.
Virus sovrano? L’asfissia capitalistica di Donatella Di Cesare
Il virus ha messo allo scoperto la spietatezza del capitalismo e mostra l’impossibilità di salvarsi, se non con l’aiuto reciproco, costringendo a pensare un nuovo modo di coabitare.
Cino Zucchi e Barbara Gallavotti | L’architettura fondamentale
All'interno del Festival Change una serie di progettisti e i pensatori dialogano su un domani in chiave sostenibile, innovativa, responsabile.
Alberto Boatto. Lo sguardo dal di fuori
For the first time, MAXXI dedicates a focus to a critic's archive, direct witness to the radical transformations taking place in art during the 20th century.
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The Centro Archivi curates and manages the MAXXI's architecture collections and provides the possibility, inside the Sala Studio, to directly consult the documents and database of its twentieth and twenty-first century collections.
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Alberto Garutti. Ai nati oggi
Piazza del Popolo
project curated by Hou Hanru and Monia Trombetta
extended until 6 January 2020
A public art project set in Rome’s Piazza del Popolo to celebrate the universal event of birth, moving a sudden and sincere emotion.
The ambitious project created by Alberto Garutti connects the square’s lampposts with the Policlinico Agostino Gemelli IRCCS’ maternity ward. Every time the light pulses it means a baby is born: the installation is dedicated to him (or her) and all the newly born that day in the city. Garutti, a significant public art’s representative, develops his research starting from works that leave the museum’s spaces to enter the urban landscape and create total engagement and sharing from the audience.
Pushing a button on every birth’s occasion – by the Policlinico Agostino Gemelli IRCCS’ ward staff – the lampposts light intensity will increase a bit for approximately thirty seconds before returning to its regular power. At every pedestrian entrance/exit route of the Piazza an iron plate is positioned with the caption’s high-relief:
The streetlights of Piazza del Popolo are connected to the maternity ward of Policlinico Agostino Gemelli.
Every time the light blinks, it means a child is born.
The work is dedicated to that child and all the children born today in this city.
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