event
Thursday 17 October 2019 6.00 PM - 7.00 PM
– 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;
– upon presentation of ID card or badge: Accademia Costume & Moda, Accademia Fotografica, Biblioteche di Roma, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Enel (for badge holder and accompanying person), FAI Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Feltrinelli, Gruppo FS, IN/ARCH Istituto Nazionale di Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma, LAZIOcrea, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Amici di Palazzo Strozzi, 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;
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;
– upon presentation of ID card or badge: Collezione Peggy Guggenheim a Venezia, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Sotheby’s Preferred, MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie;
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.
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Foto © Liliane Tomasko
Sean Scully was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1945. Four years later his family moved to a working-class area in southern London. After various jobs as an apprentice, builder and typewriter, in 1965 at the age of 20, Sean Scully began studying full-time at Croydon College of Art in London, before moving to Newcastle University in 1968. In 1970, Sean Scully won the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation award, and in 1974 the John Moores Painting Prize, he was also awarded the Frank Knox scholarship to attend Harvard University. In 1975, at the age of 30, Scully received the Harkness scholarship with which he moved to New York. Today, Scully lives and works in New York, Bavaria and London. He has been selected twice for the Turner Prize and his work is in the collection of almost all the major museums in the world. In 2014, he became the only Western artist to have had a retrospective exhibition in China (Follow the Heart: The Art of Sean Scully 1964 – 2014 including over 100 paintings and traveling from Shanghai to Beijing). Current personal exhibitions include the first exhibit at the US Museum of the Landline series at The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, a retrospective entitled Vita Duplex at the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe, Germany, and the first major exhibition of his sculptures at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, United Kingdom, among others. In 2019 Scully held soloshows at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut; National Gallery, London; the Albertina, Vienna; Villa Panza,Varese and San Giorgio Maggiore for the 58th Venice Art Biennale.
Foto © Liliane Tomasko
Graziella Lonardi Buontempo Hall – free admittance until full capacity
10 individual seats reserved for myMAXXI cardholders writing to mymaxxi@fondazionemaxxi.it by the day before the event
A meeting that traces the career of the master of international painting.
During the on the spiritual matter of artexhibit, the master of international painting, Sean Scully, meets the critic and curator, DaniloEccher, to trace the phases of his career, the evolution of his artistic path, and his relationship with the spiritual and immaterial dimension of art.
Sean Scully received two nominations for the Turner Prize. His works are in the collections of major museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the National Gallery of Australia, the Tate Gallery in London. His traditional and highly material painting is a direct expression of the artist’s presence, a human gesture that, in the abstraction of representations, turns towards the spiritual.
Sean Scully