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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.
Altan. Pimpa, Cipputi e altri pensatori
Il mondo di Altan raccontato con disegni originali, poster, illustrazioni, quadri, schizzi, tavole, libri e filmati.
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A focus show on the architecture of Louis Kahn through the photographs of Roberto Schezen.
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In the year of its 10th anniversary, MAXXI chooses to give great space to Italian creativity, by hosting the winners of the competition held by the MiBACT Italian Council.
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Alberto Boatto. Lo sguardo dal di fuori
For the first time, MAXXI dedicates a focus to a critic's archive, one of the most important intellectuals and writer of the last half-century, who died at the age of 87 in 2017.
Aldo Rossi. The Architect and the Cities
A retrospective on the extraordinary theoretical and practical contribution of an “unusual architect”. On display materials from archives and collections from all over the world.
Omaggio a Claudia Gian Ferrari
In occasione del decennale dalla scomparsa della studiosa, gallerista e collezionista, il MAXXI le rende omaggio con un focus nella sala del museo a lei dedicata.
senzamargine. Passages in Italian Art at the Turn of the Millennium
In conjunction with the Museum’s 10th anniversary, celebrated on 30th May 2010, a great new re-installation has enhanced the museum with a new cluster of Italian artworks from the turn of the century.
Il teatro della vita. Dal Living Theatre all’Arte Povera con Gianfranco Maraniello
Cinque appuntamenti per raccontare l’evoluzione di un linguaggio che ha saputo attraversare gli ultimi decenni di storia.
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Kemang Wa Lehulere. Bird Song
Gian Ferrari Hall
curated by Britta Färber and Anne Palopoli
How many stories are to be found in our history? Some have been erased, rewritten or forgotten. How should they be told and by whom?
History and time, memory and the artist’s role in society are just some of the major themes tackled in the work of Kemang Wa Lehulere, the Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year 2017, whose first solo show in Italy is being presented by MAXXI together with Deutsche Bank.
Bird Song is a unitary project focusing on the dialogue between the works of Kemang Wa Lehulere and those of Gladys Mgudlandlu (1917-1979) who in the Sixties was one of the first black artists to exhibit their work in a gallery in South Africa: landscapes and numerous birds, which earned her the nickname “Bird Lady”.
Kemang Wa Lehulere, who grew up in the same quarter in Gugulethu, searches for traces of those paintings, bringing to light a number that inspired this project.
The works of the two artists establish a dialogue of back-and-forth references: We Lehulere places his works alongside those of Gladys Mgudlandlu, allowing the works themselves to comment on and respond to one another.
Kemang Wa Lehulere, My Apologies to Time, 2017 (detail)