Nico VascellariFalena
Museum’s lobby – free admittance

single ticket valid until 17 April, for all ongoing exhibitions, due to the refurbishment of 2 galleries
– for young people aged between 18 and 25 (not yet turned 25);
– for groups of 15 people or more;
– La Galleria Nazionale, Museo Ebraico di Roma ticket holders;
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valid for one year from the date of purchase
– minors under 18 years of age;
– myMAXXI cardholders;
– on your birthday presenting an identity document;
– upon presentation of EU Disability Card holders and or accompanying letter from hosting association/institution for: people with disabilities and accompanying person, people on the autistic spectrum and accompanying person, deaf people, people with cognitive disabilities and complex communication needs and their caregivers, people with serious illnesses and their caregivers, guests of first aid and anti-violence centres and accompanying operators, residents of therapeutic communities and accompanying operators;
– MiC employees;
– journalists who can prove their business activity;
– European Union tour guides and tour guides, licensed (ref. Circular n.20/2016 DG-Museums);
– 1 teacher for every 10 students;
– AMACI members;
– CIMAM International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art members;
– ICOM members;
– from Tuesday to Friday (excluding holidays) European Union students and university researchers in art history and architecture, public fine arts academies (AFAM registered) students and Temple University Rome Campus students;
– IED Istituto Europeo di Design professors, NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti professors, RUFA Rome University of Fine Arts professors;
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for groups of 12 people in the same tour; myMAXXI membership card-holders; registered journalists with valid ID
under 14 years of age
disabled people + possible accompanying person; minors under 3 years of age (ticket not required)
MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.
Museum’s lobby – free admittance
A reference to the sun and its radiant rays, shining two and a half metres on the Museum’s concrete wall like the creative and regenerative power of the mother star.
Consisting of over one hundred gold-plated scythes, Falena symbolises fertile nature while reaping death; using the agricultural tool also accommodates an essential social and political dimension that tells of labour and the workers’ struggles of the second half of the 20th century. Finally, the very title of the work alludes to the profound dichotomies that characterise the nocturnal insect constantly in search of light and can be found in Vascellari’s twenty years of research: day and night, light and darkness and, in the extreme, above and below, life and death.
Nico Vascellari is one of the most interesting eclectic experimenters in the Italian art scene. Vascellari’s practice ranges from immersive installations to performative actions to participatory and relational moments in absolute freedom of creation in which art is seen beyond any categorisation.
A reflection on man, nature and the divine, Falena encompasses various themes dear to the artist and, as for all his poetics, is rooted in a cultural environment where legends, myths, and popular rites have always characterised human history.
The work will become part of the MAXXI Collection.