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senzamargine. Passages in Italian Art at the Turn of the...
A new large display enhances the Collection’s project. On display nine masters, representing the vitality and diversity of artistic research in Italy.
Giovanni Gastel. The People I like
200 people, 200 portraits of a never seen Gastel. Faces who: «Have passed on something to me, taught me, touched my soul».
Isaac Julien. Lina Bo Bardi — Un meraviglioso groviglio
«Time is not linear, it is a marvellous tangle in which, at any moment, ends can be chosen and solutions invented, without beginning or end».
MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE 2020
MAXXI and Bulgari together for young contemporary art.
Talk. La Cina contemporanea. Incontro con Giada Messetti, Simone...
Intelligenza artificiale, veicoli a guida autonoma, tecnologie green, riconoscimento facciale: sembra che il nostro futuro prossimo stia già accandendo in Cina. Ma quante “Cine” esistono in realtà?
Architecture, silence and light. Louis Kahn in the...
The exhibition re-opens on Friday, 2 October.
A focus show on the architecture of Louis Kahn through the photographs of Roberto Schezen.
Alberto Boatto. Lo sguardo dal di fuori
For the first time, MAXXI dedicates a focus to a critic’s archive, direct witness to the radical transformations taking place in art during the 20th century.
Italian Architecture Prize and YAP Rome at MAXXI
An exhibition dedicated to two major architectural prizes
Upcoming
Animal Cinema di Emilio Vavarella
Disponibile online, solo per pochi giorni, il film interamente girato da animali che si sono ritrovati "faccia a faccia" con una videocamera. E se ne sono impossessati.
Scopriamo la Collezione: Anna Maria Maiolino
Un laboratorio per scoprire l’opera di Anna Maria Maiolino nella Collezione del MAXXI.
Photobook. L’immagine di un’immagine di Silvia Bordini
Come si legge la fotografia sulle pagine di un libro?
Isaac Julien with Hou Hanru
The artist talks about the genesis and the evolution of his exhibition "A Marvellous Entanglement" and its position within his artistic path.
Aldo Rossi. Pictures at an another exhibition
Tutti i punti di vista per leggere il lavoro enigmatico e poliedrico del grande architetto.
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The Japanese House. Architecture & life after 1945
Gallery 2
curated by Pippo Ciorra in collaboration with Kenjiro Hosaka (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo) and Florence Ostende (Barbican Centre, Londra). The Chief Advisor is Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow-Wow / Tokyo Institute of Technology).
Between tradition and innovation the architecture of the Japanese house recounts an entire culture
Co-organized by the Japan Foundation, Tokyo and MAXXI – the National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, and coproduced by the Japan Foundation, MAXXI, Barbican Centre and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, this exhibition describes the importance of house design in Japan through the work of archistars such as Kenzo Tange, Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima and Shigeru Ban, as well as their masters less well known in the west such as Shirai, Shinohara, Sakamoto and extraordinarily promising youngsters.
A combination of architectural tradition and innovation, of nature and artifice, ancient and technological advanced materials: the domestic space is the key to the entire metropolitan culture of contemporary Japan.
The exhibition presents the essential aspects of the Japanese house, revealing the expressive richness of the designs and their capacity for creating an unexpected harmony between man, building and context.
Drawings, models, period and contemporary photographs, videos, interviews, film clips, mangas and works by artists make up the exhibition along with full-size models of fragments and sections of particularly significant buildings, in an installation designed by Atelier Bow-Wow in collaboration with the museum.
MAXXI in the world
BARBICAN CENTRE | London
March 23 – June 25, 2017
MOMAT | Tokyo
July 19 – October 29, 2017
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