Expositions
The project MACROwall: Eighties are Back! wants to reinterpret Italian art of the Eighties thorough a cycle of exhibitions featuring 10 artists whose different researches have characterized the production of the decade. Each artist is invited to display on the same wall two of his most representative works, an “historical” one and a more recent one, in order to allow the public to rediscover the vitality of art forms in the last years. The works are accompanied by critical reviews coming from two different generations: the younger art critic will interpret the “historical” work and vice versa.
Une occasion unique pour admirer 111 des 119 aquarelles de la série « Rome Pittoresque. Mémoires d'un temps qui passe » d’Ettore Roesler Franz, mieux connue sous le nom de « Rome disparue ».
Renewables are the new frontier of the energy that does not pollute and that governments around the world are exploiting to curb carbon dioxide emissions which are harmful to humans and the environment.
A documentary exhibition dedicated to the Italian police movies of the Seventies.
The exhibition, which is curated by Federica Pirani and presents a selection of 53 large oil paintings painted between 2007 and 2010, examines the pictorial research on the portrait and on landscape conducted by Tullio Pericoli, revealing lesser known aspects of this popular illustrator.
An exhibition of video interviews recorded around the globe showing women and men talking about universal themes such as philosophy and life experiences.
The growth of the suburbs of Rome and its transformations emphasize the need for a critical approach in the perception of the urban dimension of the city.
The exhibition Past Forward Toward Future, curated by 3/3, and sponsored by the Comune di Roma, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e della Comunicazione - Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali, in the framework of Rome Architecture Festival – Index Urbis, takes in examination this dimension making a comparison between two projects by Joel Sternfeld, which retrieve suggestions from the past and the inspirations for the future of the city.
The exhibition, organized on the occasion of the celebration of 90 years of friendship between the Knights of Columbus and the city of Rome, traces through photographs, portraits, documents and newspaper articles, the history of the Catholic mutual aid society “Knights of Columbus”, which was founded on October 2 1881 by Father Michael J. McGivney.
A master of contemporary art rethinks one of the MACRO’s rooms, turning it into a space of pulsating energy and immersing the visitor in a total experience, both physically and psychically.
Thanks to a project conceived by Gilberto Zorio specifically for the rooms of the MACRO, one of the halls of the museum will be transformed into one of his great work aimed at the physical and emotional involvement of the audience. As often happens in his works, Zorio’s exhibition is a sort of work in progress, which gives the space a constantly changing identity, through the signs and the traces of different, unusual, changeable and unstable materials.
The hall on the second floor of the MACRO, which was recently renovated and is connected to the new wing of the museum, is dedicated to the Portuguese artist João Louro. A world where nothing is as it seems, a universe in which vision short-circuits with language and create original expressive works of art.
One of the halls of the Museum houses My Dark Places, a solo exhibition of the Portuguese artist João Louro (Lisbon, 1963), curated by Luca Massimo Barbero. The exhibition space showcases new works – part of the series Blind Images – created especially for the exhibition. A selection of works closely linked together, inspired by the seemingly unrelated concepts of “fear” and “pleasure” and by literary references to James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia and the works of the Marquis de Sade.
The formal minimalism and the chromatic purity of the large monochromes contrast ironically with the quotes at the bottom of the work, which are similar to captions or subtitles. The observer does not find a simple explanation or description in these texts, but new suggestions which open the mind and the senses to different and distant worlds, full of philosophical and literary quotations.
The exhibition Philip Guston, Roma to be held at the Museo Carlo Bilotti
On display, for the first time in Rome, a selection of works, drawings and archival materials coming from the sculptor’s studio in Trieste, lent by the family of Attilio Selva.
From 22nd April to 5th September, an exhibition of Pio Pullini’s works coming from private collections and from the Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna (Municipal Gallery of Modern Art) will be held at the Museo di Roma - Palazzo Braschi.
Percorsi del Novecento romano (20th century art in Rome) presents a selection of about seventy paintings and sculptures, important examples of Italian art and culture of the first half of the Twentieth century.
Le projet quinquennal “Les Jours de Rome” s'ouvre par une grande exposition de chefs-d'œuvre de l'art antique provenant des plus grands Musées européens et datables de la période qui a suivi les campagnes de conquête en Grèce (de la fin du III° siècle à la seconde moitié du I°siècle av. J.-C.), l'un des moments fondamentaux pour la future identité culturelle et artistique romaine, pas seulement de l'époque républicaine.