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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
projects for contemporary housing
REOPENING: from 18 June 2020
A review that ranges from the low-cost housing projects of the post-war years to new experimental and sustainable ways of inhabiting the planet
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».
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.
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.
Aspettando la Notte Europea dei Ricercatori “Roma e l’acqua”. Trekking scientifico
Tra storia, scienza, arte e mobilità sostenibile, un’intera giornata alla scoperta di una città nelle sue impareggiabili e diversificate espressioni.
Upcoming
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».
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.
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.
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Enzo Cucchi
Gian Ferrari Hall
«Painting recognises no customs. Children do not know gender. Art hates painters».
One of the most influential figures on the contemporary art scene presents a new project designed specifically for the spaces of the Gian Ferrari Hall at MAXXI. An extraordinary inventor of powerful and enigmatic images, Cucchi incorporates an aesthetic that ranges between time and history, thus synthesising individual myths and collective imagination.
Enzo Cucchi proposes a single work on display: a radical gesture in his rarefaction of a single object, of modest dimensions in relation to the architecture of space designed by Zaha Hadid, exhibited on a base that itself becomes an integral part of the work. A putto, to whose big toe a scorpion appears to cling, hands to eyes in the gesture of the telescope for focusing the vision, reinterprets in an extremely contemporary image the classic iconography of the naked child, with references that recur in the history of art and that go from the Roman statuary to the great Baroque frescoes.
With this work/gesture, the fiercely modern Enzo Cucchi finally returns to talk about Rome, his adopted city, in whose cradle he has always nourished himself and in which he captures the sense of personal and civil resistance to the unstoppable progress of a world based on speed and emergency and of a culture of technology and science that increasingly drains the spaces of desire and freedom of thought every day.
Photo © Mark Peckmezian, 2017
