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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.
Architecture, silence and light. Louis Kahn in the...
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.
Art collections
The collections of the MAXXI art present themselves as a strong nucleus that witnesses the national and international artistic production
Architecture collections
The MAXXI Architettura collections comprise all those artefacts and documents that, in various ways, represent the material and conceptual complexity of architecture.
Architecture Archives Centre
The Centro Archivi curates and manages the MAXXI's architecture collections and provides the possibility, inside the Sala Studio, to directly consult the documents and database of its twentieth and twenty-first century collections.
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Project and Utopia
Architecture Archive Centre
Two restoration interventions on the Architecture Collection shed light on the importance of conservation in contemporary collections.
The museum presents to the public two works belonging to the MAXXI Architecture Collection: the model used for the Competition for the Chamber of Deputies from the Vittorio De Feo Archive and Paolo Soleri’s Space IV scroll.
At first glance the two works may seem very different from each other. One (Vittorio De Feo’s model) is made of wood and the other (Paolo Soleri’s scroll) is made of paper; one is a proposal for an urban project and the other is the graphic representation of an utopia; one is created by a working group and the other the result of its Artist’s choice to live isolated when he retreated in Arizona. Yet, they have a common thread: both are part of the Architecture Collection, they are the physical representation of the design process that runs through the mind of the architects; both represent new and alternative solutions to a world that does not seem satisfactory.
The Project and Utopia exhibit is the result of a work carried out in 2019, carried out in collaboration with the Fondazione Paola Droghetti, which has made two scholarships available to young graduates, the ISCR (Higher Institute for Conservation and Restoration) and the ICRCPAL (Central Institute for Restoration and Conservation of the Archival and Book Heritage), in charge for the scientific direction of restoration activities.
The exhibit is accompanied by a catalogue curated by Patrizia Cavalieri, Francesca Romana Liserre and Carla Zhara Buda (Gangemi Editore).
In collaboration with the Paola Droghetti non-profit foundation, ISCR The Higher Institute for Conservation and Restoration, and ICRCPASL The Central Institute for Restoration and Conservation of the Archival and Book Heritage.
