The Histories of Art.Anemic Photoplay. Marcel Duchamp and movement image | With Marco Senaldi
other events of the Le Storie dell'Arte 2017 cycle

for young people aged between 18 and 25 (not yet turned 25); for groups of 15 people or more; La Galleria Nazionale, Museo Ebraico di Roma ticket holders; upon presentation of ID card or badge: Accademia Costume & Moda, Accademia Fotografica, Biblioteche di Roma, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Enel (for badge holder and accompanying person), FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Feltrinelli, Gruppo FS, IN/ARCH – Istituto Nazionale di Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma, LAZIOcrea, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Amici di Palazzo Strozzi, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Scuola Internazionale di Comics, Teatro Olimpico, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro di Roma, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Youthcard; upon presenting at the ticket office a Trenitalia ticket to Rome purchased between 27 November 2024 and 21 April 2025
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for groups of 12 people in the same tour; myMAXXI membership card-holders; registered journalists with valid ID
under 14 years of age
disabled people + possible accompanying person; minors under 3 years of age (ticket not required)
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.
16 Feb 2025 05.00 pm
MAXXI with the familyDi Spazio in SpazioDivento Spazio
18 Feb 2025 06.00 pm
stories of artLecture on bluewith Marcella Beccaria
19 Feb 2025 04.30 pm
MAXXIperTUTTIDalla materia al simbolotactile lab
19 Feb 2025 06.00 pm
talkPESATOby Enzo Cucchi
19 Feb 2025 06.30 pm
books at MAXXIIl coccodrillo di Palermoby Roberto Andò
Guidi Reni Room – entrance € 5; Buying the ticket entitles you to a reduced-price ticket for the museum (€ 8) within one week of issue.
€ 4 for holders of the myMAXXI card
Four lessons on the great artists who have redesigned and revolutionised art in the last sixty years.
What do The Photoplay, namely the first essay on cinema, written by psychologist Hugo Münsterberg in 1916, and Anemic Cinéma, the abstract cinema masterpiece by Marcel Duchamp, made ten years later, have in common? The work of Duchamp has been interpreted in many ways, but his media interventions, his forays into cinema, his exhibition devices, and even his TV appearances have been incredibly underestimated. A careful re-reading of the “hidden”, physiological, psychological, media sources of Duchamp’s art provides an alternative genealogy not only of ready-made, but also of his entire body of work, and enables a new understanding of contemporary art from a “movement-image” standpoint.
Marco Senaldi, Media aesthetics professor in many universities, including Milano Bicocca, IULM Milano and LUISS Roma, currently teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera. He has published several essays, organised conferences and events with philosophers and artists as well as several modern art exhibits.
The Histories of Art.
11 March – 22 April 2017
The Histories of Art has reached its fifth edition. Such series of lectures, given by professors, historians, writers and critics, focuses on the most important phases of contemporary creatvity, from Marcel Duchamp up to the present day.
The Histories of Art project is carried out with the support of MINI, Partner of MAXXI Public Programs