videogalleryPassagesThe Lemaitre Collection between video art and cinema
videogallery – free admittance
curated by Maria Laura Cavaliere
Monday closed
Tuesday to Sunday 11 am – 7 pm
the ticket office is open until 1 hour before the Museum closing
Saturday 24 December 11 am – 4 pm
Sunday 25 December closed
Monday 26 December 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday 31 December 11 am – 4 pm
Monday 2 January 11 am – 7 pm
Friday 6 January 11 am – 7 pm
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available at the Museum ticket office.
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for young people aged between 14 and 25 (not yet turned 25); for groups of 15 people or more; registered journalists with a valid ID card; La Galleria Nazionale, Museo Ebraico di Roma, Villa Medici: Accademia di Francia a Roma ticket holders; Palazzo delle Esposizioni and Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini ticket holders on the occasion of the exhibition “Pier Paolo Pasolini. Tutto è Santo” from 19 October 2022 to 12 March 2023; upon presentation of ID card or badge: Accademia Costume & Moda, Accademia Fotografica, Biblioteche di Roma, Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Enel (for badge holder and accompanying person), FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano, IED – Istituto Europeo di Design, IN/ARCH – Istituto Nazionale di Architettura, Interclub Welfare Card, ISFCI – Istituto Superiore di Fotografia, Sapienza Università di Roma, LAZIOcrea, Officine Fotografiche, Ordine degli Assistenti Sociali, Ordine dei Medici Chirurghi e degli Odontoiatri, Ordine Psicologi Lazio, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Amici di Palazzo Strozzi, Rinascente, Romaeuropa Festival, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Scuola Internazionale di Comics, Teatro Olimpico, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro di Roma, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Youthcard.
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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.
videogallery – free admittance
curated by Maria Laura Cavaliere
Monday closed
Tuesday to Sunday 11 am – 7 pm
the ticket office is open until 1 hour before the Museum closing
Saturday 24 December 11 am – 4 pm
Sunday 25 December closed
Monday 26 December 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday 31 December 11 am – 4 pm
Monday 2 January 11 am – 7 pm
Friday 6 January 11 am – 7 pm
The Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaître collection represents one of the rare private collections entirely dedicated to video art and consists of over 150 works by international artists from five continents. The French collectors played a central role in the enhancement of video art, thanks to numerous initiatives promoting the work of young talents, such as the establishment of the Prix Studio Collector, rewarding creations of emerging artists, students of Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains in Tourcoing, France.
The Lemaître family began collecting moving images in the 90s, when a generation of video artists emerged finding a new playground for visual experimentation in cinema. Their choices are dictated by “coups de cœur”, by enthusiasm and personal taste. Every encounter with a work is also an encounter with an artist, with a vision of the world:
“video is the medium of our time and we want the collection to reflect our role in this era”
The selection includes both historical works and new acquisitions and traces the recent history of video art, characterized by the influence of cinema as an aesthetic horizon and cultural model.
The video medium asserts itself as a place of passage and contamination between cinema and video art, analogue and digital, still and moving image, challenging the status of the contemporary image. The screening of the 18 videos is divided into two sections: the aesthetics of the documentary and the deconstruction of cinematographic language.
PART I – The aesthetics of the documentary: Theresumption of the documentary genre characterizes the visual writing of many artists from the late 90s to today. Geopolitical and social issues related to the effects of globalization turn video practices towards a documentary aesthetic, exploring the frontiers of representation, between documentary film and video art, reality and fiction, direct testimony and the creation of fictitious archives.
PART II – The deconstruction of the cinematographic language
The methodical deconstruction of the cinematographic language codes defines the practice of this second group of artists, who developed experimental research through the mise en abyme of the narrative structures belonging to the film industry and the recontextualization of iconic elements belonging to cinematographic culture and the collective imagination, such as appropriation, détournement, remake.