exhibition
17 October 2019 > 19 January 2020
Enzo Cucchi
opening hours
Monday closed
Tuesday to Friday 11 am – 7 pm
Saturday and Sunday 11 am – 8 pm
the ticket office is open until 1 hour before Museum closing
notice
more informationAccess to the Museum requires the presentation of the EU digital COVID certificate, in accordance with the regulations in force on the day of the visit, together with an ID card. The provisions do not apply to children under 12 years of age or to persons with specific medical certifications.
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