A conference to analyse the transition from a single-faith artistic tradition to practices of sharing sacred places, up to the current role of architecture and museums in promoting interfaith dialogue.
Historically, sharing sacred places has not been a central issue for artists, architects and patrons, who were concerned with promoting their own religion. This monoconfessional dimension of artistic production revealed the gap between institutional discourse and lived practices, in which themes, motifs and devotions circulate from one religion to another.
The widespread practice of converting places of worship following political changes marks the porosity of the artistic field, while contemporary creation, particularly in architecture, has been able to capture interreligious dialogue. This is also the ambition of museums, which, through their collections, strive to highlight shared sacred places.
programme:
4 pm > 5:30 pm – I round table
Showing religion in sharing. Collections, museography and contemporary challenges
introduction and moderator
Raphaël Bories Mucem
speakers
Dionigi Albera CNRS-AMU
Olga Melasecchi Jewish Museum of Rome
Manoël Pénicaud CNRS-Centre Jacques Berque
Umberto Utro Department of Christian Antiquities, Vatican Museums
6 pm > 7:30 pm – II round table
Shared architecture and religious art. Influences, reuses and contemporary creations
introduction and moderator
Eleonora D’Alessandro historian of religions
intervengono
Susana Calvo Capilla Università Complutense di Madrid
Margherita Guccione Grande MAXXI Chief Scientist
Simona Malvezzi Kuehn Malvezzi Architects, NABA
Isabelle Saint-Martin EPHE-PSI
In collaboration with the French Embassy to the Holy See – Institut français Centre Saint-Louis and the French Academy – Villa Medici, on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Shared Sacred Places. A Journey Through Religions’.
individual seats reserved for myMAXXI cardholders by writing to mymaxxi@fondazionemaxxi.it, by the day before the event
A conference to analyse the transition from a single-faith artistic tradition to practices of sharing sacred places, up to the current role of architecture and museums in promoting interfaith dialogue.
Historically, sharing sacred places has not been a central issue for artists, architects and patrons, who were concerned with promoting their own religion. This monoconfessional dimension of artistic production revealed the gap between institutional discourse and lived practices, in which themes, motifs and devotions circulate from one religion to another.
The widespread practice of converting places of worship following political changes marks the porosity of the artistic field, while contemporary creation, particularly in architecture, has been able to capture interreligious dialogue. This is also the ambition of museums, which, through their collections, strive to highlight shared sacred places.
programme:
4 pm > 5:30 pm – I round table
Showing religion in sharing. Collections, museography and contemporary challenges
introduction and moderator
Raphaël Bories Mucem
speakers
Dionigi Albera CNRS-AMU
Olga Melasecchi Jewish Museum of Rome
Manoël Pénicaud CNRS-Centre Jacques Berque
Umberto Utro Department of Christian Antiquities, Vatican Museums
6 pm > 7:30 pm – II round table
Shared architecture and religious art. Influences, reuses and contemporary creations
introduction and moderator
Eleonora D’Alessandro historian of religions
intervengono
Susana Calvo Capilla Università Complutense di Madrid
Margherita Guccione Grande MAXXI Chief Scientist
Simona Malvezzi Kuehn Malvezzi Architects, NABA
Isabelle Saint-Martin EPHE-PSI
In collaboration with the French Embassy to the Holy See – Institut français Centre Saint-Louis and the French Academy – Villa Medici, on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Shared Sacred Places. A Journey Through Religions’.
individual seats reserved for myMAXXI cardholders by writing to mymaxxi@fondazionemaxxi.it, by the day before the event