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on the spiritual matter of art
An exhibition dedicated to those artistic paths that seek another dimension, of absolute, between universal, material and immaterial, immanent and transcendent.
Gio Ponti. Loving architecture
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. Projects for contemporary housing
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
Altan. Pimpa, Cipputi e altri pensatori
Il mondo di Altan raccontato con disegni originali, poster, illustrazioni, quadri, schizzi, tavole, libri e filmati.
Talk. Andrea Carandini in conversation with Bartolomeo...
The spiritual in relation to the history of the city of Rome, starting out from the myth of its foundation and the sacred rituals of the era.
Alessandro Valeri. An Iron Ring
An island of tolerance in the foster home of Tzippori, Nazareth: a story told through video, images and site-specific installation.
KKL Italia Onlus Mano nella Mano
«Mi ha colpito come tutti si tengano per mano – racconta Carlo Mogiani – sempre in ogni vicolo, in ogni piazza, si cammina mano nella mano».
Municipio Creativo Contest di Street Art
Sei residente o domiciliato a Roma? Hai tra i 14 e i 35 anni? Partecipa al contest di Street Art promosso dal Municipio II di Roma.
Municipio Creativo Contest di Cortometraggi
Sei residente o domiciliato a Roma? Hai tra i 14 e i 35 anni? Partecipa al contest di Cortometraggi promosso dal Municipio II di Roma.
Architecture, silence and light. Louis Kahn in the...
A focus show on the architecture of Louis Kahn through the photographs of Roberto Schezen.
Upcoming
Gio Ponti e le arti con Francesca Zanella
Quattro incontri per conoscere la poliedrica attività di Ponti, dall'architettura al design, all'insegnamento e l'editoria, dalla decorazione alla scenografia.
Giornata della Memoria 2020
Tramandare la memoria collettiva perché le nuove generazioni siano “testimoni dei testimoni”.
Gio Ponti. Loving architecture
A guided tour of the exhibition "Gio Ponti. Loving architecture".
From At Home to Casa Baldi
A unique tour starting from the At Home exhibit to the iconic Casa Baldi.
La convivenza degli opposti
Tre incontri per riflettere sulla spiritualità e indagare in dialogo tra il visibile e invisibile, tra quello che pensiamo e ciò che sentiamo. In occasione "della materia spirituale dell'arte".
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Architecture Archives Centre
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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