Expositions
The event offers a series of initiatives aimed at promoting Serbian artistic and cultural heritage with art and photographic exhibitions
A very special Christmas gift to all visitors from Roma Capitale, thanks to two special loans from the Fondazione Guglielmo Giordano and the Fondazione Sorgente Group: the exhibition of two paintings by Pinturicchio in the Capitoline Museums.
On display at the Museum of Rome a small group of works belonging to its permanent collection, closely connected to the topics discussed at the international conference entitled 'Roma fuori di Roma’: modern art from the pontificate of Pius VI to Italian Unification (1775-1870), which took place on December 13-15, 2011 at the British School at Rome, an Art History conference organized by Liliana Barroero (Università Roma Tre), Giovanna Capitelli (Università della Calabria) and Fernando Mazzocca (Università Statale di Milano). Supported by PRIN (Progetto di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale).
MACROwall: Eighties are Back! is a project, curated by Ludovico Pratesi, that involves a review of Italian art in the Eighties in a series of solo exhibitions of artists representing different types of artistic production in the decade.
The sixth and final exhibition of the series features Mario Dellavedova, Daniela De Lorenzo, Massimo Kaufmann, Felice Levini and Marco Tirelli.
“Umanità” (Humanity) is the title of the retrospective exhibition dedicated to the photojournalist Gianni Giansanti, who became famous for documenting the tragic kidnapping of Aldo Moro: from the images of the Via Fani massacre on March 16, 1978 to the exclusive shot of the discovery of the statesman’s corpse on via Caetani on May 9. The latter shot became popular and earned him a mention at the World Press Photo of the same year, when he was only twenty-two.
The photo exhibition - conceived and curated by Contrasto for the Umberto Veronesi Foundation - collects ninety memorable and award-winning shots by great reportage photographers such as Capa, Salgado, Pellegrin to name but a few, illustrating the more recent conflicts, from Spain in 1936 to Afghanistan in 2007, with the aim of stimulating ideas and draw attention to the impact of war. The initiative is part of Science for Peace, the international project launched by Umberto Veronesi, whose purpose is scientific research and practical solutions for peace.
The exhibition aims to illustrate the work of Vincenzo Fasolo (1885-1969).
An exhibition dedicated to Steve McCurry, one of the greatest photographers of our century.
On display “ Double Carousel with Zöllner Stripes“ by the Belgian artist Carsten Höller, the winning work of the Enel Contemporanea Award 2011, the prize organized by Enel within the Enel Contemporanea project, now in its fifth year, that leads to the production of artworks on the theme of energy by artists of different nations (www.enelcontemporanea.com).
The Art of Taxidermy:
When an animal dies and nothing is preserved of it, it dies twice"
II edition of 6ARTISTA 2011: Adelita Husni-Bey / Elisa Strinna
On display the works by Adelita Husni-Bey and Elisa Strinna, winners of the second edition of 6ARTISTA, the prize promoted by the Associazione Civita and the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere .
This display is featured as part of an exchange of works of art from prestigious European and American museums, the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth loaned to the Capitoline Museums refined bronze head of an Apoxyomenos, a figure of an athlete, who has just finished exercising, depicted in the act of cleansing himself in a traditional manner. With a slightly larger head size and, until recently, mounted on a draped bust of Renaissance date, the statue was probably a version of the bronze datable to the fourth century BC.
One hundred photographs divided into three sections documenting the history of the city built on sand dunes overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The first section features photographs of Abraham Soskin (1881-1973) describing the Tel Aviv from 1906 to 1936, the second presents images by Rudi Weissenstein, the only photographer invited to document the founding of the state of Israel from 1936 to 1970. The last section features photos by Viviana Tagar showing the contrast between the ancient and the contemporary city.
Russian Cultural Month part of the “Arte e cultura dell’Europa dell’Est a Roma” (Art and culture of Eastern Europe in Rome) project.
The exhibition presents an extraordinary collection of gold jewellery, held at the Georgian National Museum and recently exhibited in some of the most prestigious museums in the world.
On display the works by 15 great Indoneasian asrtists: Agus Suwage, F.X. Harsono, Yuli Praytno, Melati Suryodarmo, Mella Jaarsma, Heri Dono, Made Wianta, Eko Nugroho, Entang Wiharso, Ugo Untoro, Titarubi, Astari Rasyid, Arya Pandjalu, S. Teddy Darmawan and Budi Kustarto.
On display at the Museum of Rome - Palazzo Braschi 35 nineteenth-century photographs by Stefano Lecchi (1804 – 1859/63), compared with 15 modern prints illustrating the siege of the Roman Republic.
Contemporary Chinese art is the fruit of a long pictorial journey, which evolved from an initial manual skill and remains in the same tradition.The current relevance of abstract painting by Chinese artists lies in the powerful flow of a work that has found a balance between conceptual process and formal outcome. American minimal and conceptual art, which tends towards dematerialization of the object, has generally favoured the moment of planning over that of execution.
As part of the International Biennial of Culture "Vie della Seta" (The Silk Road), the exhibition traces the history of Dvin, the capital of early medieval Armenia and an important city on the road that connected East and West, highlighting the deep cultural layers that have shaped its development from the IV to the XVI century.
The exhibition includes unique archaeological and numismatic exhibits, ethnographic objects and historic photographs from the Historical Museum of Armenia.
For the first time, an exhibition of sixty-six drawings that aims to provide a detailed comparison between two great masters of the Italian Renaissance.
On display about 30 works, paintings and photographs, by Marco Tamburro.
A TRIBUTE TO AUDREY HEPBURN IN SUPPORT OF UNICEF: Unpublished photos, videos and personal fashion items belonging to one of the icons of our time
Tribute to the great architect and designer Gio Ponti with ceramics designed for Richard-Ginori between 1923 and 1930.
As part of the International Biennial of Culture "Vie della Seta" (The Silk Road), 100 giant posters signed by popular photographers, illustrating the beauty, attractions and contradictions of one of the most important cities of the world: Beijing.
As part of the "Voci della periferia" (Voices from the periphery), the exhibition is the final event of a competition that saw the participation of dozens of young artists, aged between 18 and 35 years.
Con un programma di 11 mostre di grande livello - che spaziano dalla storia all’archeologia, dall’arte contemporanea all’attualità - e con un calendario di conferenze ed eventi, la Città di Roma, profondamente impegnata nell’ambito del dialogo tra civiltà e religioni, in qualità di Capitale culturale e luogo di incontro internazionale, inaugura la Biennale Internazionale di Cultura dedicata a quei Paesi del Medio ed Estremo Oriente che, fino al XIII secolo, in sostanza fino ai viaggi di Marco Polo, hanno costituito un mistero per l’Europa.
The exhibition features about 400 works of art by some of the world’s most famous contemporary Japanese artists, who have taken a stab at various painting techniques of the Japanese tradition.
Una mostra fotografica ripercorre i 50 anni della Storia di Telespazio e dell'Italia dalle trasformazioni nel campo delle telecomunicazioni a quelle nell'industria spaziale.
An exhibition dedicated to Ukraine, on the twentieth anniversary of its independence, presenting the works of three artists: Olilga Milentiy, Nadiya Stoyko and Galyna Chukal, who wish to express the spirit of their culture through a journey that conveys emotions, feelings and impressions of the characteristics of their country of origin.
A symbolic vision of a vital and critical journey projected into the future.
“La dottrina è la luce” and “Paradiso o Santuario” by Olilga Milentiy
“L’anima dell’Indipendenza” by Galyna Chukhal
“Dolore, Amore,Speranza” by Nadiya Stoyko
Italian Pop Surrealism is a group show that features an eclectic mix of works by our most talented Italy-based artists.
Through his works, the American artist Chaim Koppelman, ideally opens the doors of New York to Napoleon, a recurring figure in the artist's long career.
MACRO Museum hosts in its foyer the new extension of the Postcard from... project, sponsored by the Pastificio Cerere Foundation and created by its Artistic Director Marcello Smarrelli. On display Massimo Grimaldi's Finally, a poetic tale about the artist's figure in the written on a large billboard.
An exhinition of works in ceramics and installation with music.
An installation with music by Silvia Lanzalone and sculpture by Debora Mondovì.
In cinema, suspense represents an unresolved conflict, an obscure situation, an accumulation of dark anguish. This mode of narration arose in the years following World War II, and almost immediately acquired a new meaning in the context of the second wave of European existentialism, wonderfully adapting itself to portraying the irrational melancholy that pervaded the world in the aftermath of the war.
The first complete retrospective (curated by Peter Benson Miller, Barbara Drudi and Alberta Campitelli) dedicated to the career of American photographer and art critic Milton Gendel (b. 1918).
Rome’s International Photography Festival reaches its 10th edition this year with a project that confirms the event’s growing national and international prestige and its ever more concrete attention to original productions and strong initiatives. Its overall purpose is to promote contemporary photography in its different forms and languages, and to support talents now emerging at the national and international levels.
Unter Deck / Lower Decks is a photo series which was started in Vienna in 2007 and was continued in Bern and Munich, Saint Petersburg, Budapest, Florence and Rome.
It focuses on the objects of natural history museums, which are kept in their cellars, long-term storage, and bunkers and are waiting to be brought back to life. Various animal families and species meet randomly in these underground quarters.
The series takes the objects out of the context of the museum and breathes new life into them. Their animated expressions - which people intended, transform their coincidental arrangement into unintended communication. The collection of photos follows the concept of the "ready-made": situations are kept exclusively as they are found.
The technical realization is done without additional aids and uses only the available light.
Therefore the cape buffalo of the African savannah meets the Antartic polar bear in the glowing neon light of the underground storage. An unintended conversation begins through the lens of the camera. The momentary exposure of an imaginary arc- precisely the "lower deck."
The exhibition aims to provide a historical and iconographic interpretation of the Risorgimento through the works of art and creativity published in newspapers and magazines of the time by the most talented Italian illustrators.
On September 20, 2011 Massimo De Carlo, together with Ludovico Pratesi as coordinator, brings to Rome Three Amigos, a unique and unpublished project which includes three different solo shows of three young, internationally renowned American artists, Dan Colen, Nate Lowman and Dash Snow, at Palazzo Rospigliosi, at the American Academy in Rome and at MACRO. Three significant places that symbolize Rome’s historical, influential and contemporary soul, thus become specialized venues in which the artists develop three distinct projects appositely studied and realized for this specific occasion.
MEET SHOW is an itinerant show with the title “ Design, an Italian story,” curated by Marco Romanelli. Great masters and young designers, critical analysis and research. A new and special selection of items offers an overview across different types of design from 1948 to present and describes the great work of Italian designers and entrepreneurs.
The exhibition aims to present the work of Pino Settanni (1949 - 2010), one of the most important Italian photographers of our century.
Exhibition pays homage to New York in the 10th anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers
Exhibition marking the centenary of the discovery of the archaeological site of Machu Picchu.
An installation by the artist Chiara Castri on display in the area in front of the entrance to the Museo Barracco.
The exhibition aims to highlight and make understandable to visitors, both Roman citizenss and foreigners, the recent major renovation of the archaeological site and museum, which lasted for several months.
L'iniziativa intende coniugare, nella settimana dell'Alta Moda a Roma, arte, moda e solidarietà .
La mostra presenta Oslo e la Norvegia attraverso un viaggio che iniziando dalla capitale nordica si spinge verso il lontano nord, per raccontare di un paese che non coincide con la sua città più importante.
In mostra le opere e i progetti di Snøhetta, studio-icona dell'architettura contemporanea norvegese, fondato a Oslo 20 anni fa da cinque giovani architetti.
Esposizione documentaria nell'ambito del "Trastevere Noir Festival". In mostra 82 diverse testate e 120 fumetti, vissuti, segnati e passati di mano a sottolineare la scelta del curatore a favore della rappresentazione di un vissuto che ha accompagnato le avventure nere e misteriose di una generazione di adolescenti.
1900-1959: the places of 'contemporary' art in Rome from the CRDAV collections.
A selection.
Curated by MACRO - CRDAV, Centre for Research and Documentation of Visual Arts. Library, Level II.
An exhibition that highlights the vitality of "contemporary" art in the capital from 1900 to 1959 using he extraordinary documentary material of MACRO’s Centre for Research and Documentation of Visual Arts, on display in the library. The exhibition is a chronological sequence of rare catalogues, brochures, invitations, and flyers, which reconstruct "a world": one in which, by going to exhibitions, galleries, cafés, libraries, and restaurants you could meet the entire literary and artistic world of those years. The exhibition is divided into two sections: 1900-1959: from the Palazzo delle Esposizioni to the Obelisk and 1950-1959: the original year. The exhibition also includes anthologies published by the galleries about their activities over the years, anastatic reproductions of published exhibition catalogues, monographs on exhibition themes and art periodicals (from Emporium to Spazio).
Adrian Tranquilli: All is violent. All is bright
Curated by Gianluca Marziani. Conference room and terrace.
Adrian Tranquilli’s project "All is violent. All is bright" is a narrative which, in two large installations full of surprises and bewildering effects, transforms the museum into a theatrical performance of the fight between Batman and Joker, archetypal characters from the artist’s iconographic universe. The figure of Batman, which is visible from outside the museum because it is placed at the highest point on the terrace above the new Via Nizza entrance, stands on sinuous surfaces, designed by architect Odile Decq, as a mysterious figure in an amphitheatre of surrounding buildings. On the roof of the conference room, the heart of the museum, the other half of the narrative emerges unexpectedly: Saint Peter’s Basilica made of thousands of playing cards depicting different ‘faces’ of the Joker, repeated and alternated to the point of obsession, creating a quasi hypnotic effect. By exploiting the outside and inside of MACRO, Tranquilli suspends time and recreates atavistic feelings, mysterious rituals, revelations and wanderings. A sculptural vision of the universal themes and values that characterize human nature.
Carlo Bernardini: La rivincita dell’angolo (the corner’s revenge)
Elevator shafts
For the elevator shafts of the historic wing of the MACRO building, Carlo Bernardini has created an installation, on different floors, consisting of two stainless steel sculptures, placed in the corners of the shafts; a spatial drawing is then created using optical fibres. The installation redraws the areas, literally sculpting the darkness, thus totally changing the perception and completely reconfiguring the space to create a new architecture of light. The real material used in Bernardini’s work is indeed "space", which, shaped by the medium of light, is taken by the hand to “another” dimension: the place of thought.
Esther Stocker: Destino Comune (common destiny)
Curated by Elena Forin. I Floor.
MACRO presents Common destiny, Esther Stocker’s new installation, produced in collaboration with Oredaria Arti Contemporanee. In Common Destiny, Esther Stocker creates a structure made of black sticky tape, which covers the room and marks out shapes. The starting point of the artist's work is a regular geometric grid, which is broken by the insertion of appropriate "errors", representing "damage to the system." Walking across the room thus transformed, the viewer enters a dimension that is no longer fully recognizable, an area where it is the errors that give the coordinates and capture one’s attention: the individual thus becomes part of this imprecision, a system of rules that is no longer defined but characterized by a kind of vagueness.
Flavio Favelli: The Empress Theodora
Special Project for MACRO. Curved walls, first floor.
Flavio Favelli continues the cycle of projects specially designed for the curved walls of the atria of the historic wing of MACRO, twin spaces at the entrance of the exhibition halls.
Conceiving these walls as areas for images, and to make use of unconventional environments as exhibition areas, MACRO selects Italian artists from the international scene to implement this project. After Francesco Simeti, Luca Trevisani, and Nico Vascellari, it is now Favelli’s turn, whose installation - two large pvc tarpaulins - entitled The Empress Theodora, transforms these architectural elements in new spaces for the imagination and memory.
The hall of the museum thus becomes a place for the expression of emotional tensions and conflicting forces, involving the public in the artist’s private and universal memories.
Giovanni De Angelis: Water Drops
Curated by Costanza Paissan - III Floor.
Giovanni De Angelis’s photographic project, "Water Drops", looks at the theme of twin births from two perspectives, social and anthropological, embarking on an in-depth exploration of the ideas of identity, uniqueness of the individual and relationships with others. Intrigued by the stories and news from Candido Godo, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, the photographer left for the South American town to see with his own eyes what is called "the land of twins", developing the project together with the psychotherapist Luisa Laurelli, who met and interviewed a number of twins. The two faces of research, artistic and scientific, have thus been integrated in a thorough investigation of the social, psychological and individual reality of this place and its inhabitants.
Giuseppe Stampone: Saluti da L’Aquila (Greetings from L'Aquila)
Sala Bianca - I floor.
Giuseppe Stampone presents the next phase of his project: "Greetings from L'Aquila," an opportunity for visitors to participate actively in his work through a brand new installation. The images of the new architectural face of the city devastated by the earthquake are the subject of thousands of postcards that Stampone has created and sent all over the world since January. For MACRO, the artist has chosen some new images that were sent from Rome: these pictures tell the story of an aesthetic development blacked and locked in the scaffolding which for more than a year has enclosed buildings that are still in a state of disrepair.
MACROradici contemporary art: Bice Lazzari. The balance of space
Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero and Francesca Pola. II floor.
The fourth exhibition of "MACROradici contemporary art" features Bice Lazzari: one of the most complex figures in the international abstract art scene, whose work spans the twentieth century from the lyric abstraction of the twenties and thirties to the minimalist sixties and seventies, and who in this exhibition is again brought to the attention of the general public, her articulate and groundbreaking artistic vision as topical as ever. The exhibition brings this artist back to the city of Rome, where she produced some of her most extraordinary works, and like a great autobiography of Lazzari’s work it confirms the anticipatory role she played in different periods and highlights her international importance. Thanks to the cooperation of the Bice Lazzari Archive, the exhibition includes a significant selection of her works on canvas and paper, many of them never seen or exhibited before. Looking at these secret images, on the walls or in the special MACRO cabinets, the visitor is astounded by Bice Lazzari’s extraordinary creativity, her structural rigour, refined chromatic sensitivity and intense humanity.
MACROwall: EIGHTIES ARE BACK! Vittorio Messina
Curated by Ludovico Pratesi - III Floor
Vittorio Messina is featured in this edition of MACROwall: Eighties are Back! The project involves a review of Italian art in the eighties in a series of solo exhibitions of artists representing different types of artistic production in the decade. Each artist is invited to exhibit two works on one wall, an early work and one that is recent, to allow the public to rediscover the vitality of the artist’s production over the years. The works are accompanied by fact sheets written by two art critics of different generations: the younger critic reviews the early work and vice versa. On this occasion, the two works being compared are "Balconi Meridionali" (southern balconies) of 1987, reviewed by Guglielmo Gigliotti, and “Melancolia verticale” (vertical melancholy) of 2011, reviewed by Laura Cherubini.
Pietro Fortuna: GLORY II. The tears of an angel
Hall
On display in the MACRO hall is Pietro Fortuna’s Tears of the angel, the second part of "Glory," a project divided into a series of major exhibitions and stemming from the artist’s reflections on the concepts of good, sharing and common space. After exhibiting in August 2010 at the Tramway in Glasgow, Fortuna presents at MACRO a large installation in the hall, an area of fundamental importance for the osmotic relationship that the museum has with the city and the neighbourhood.
Riccardo De Marchi: Roman Forum
Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero and Elena Forin . III Floor.
Riccardo De Marchi’s installation is a blend of irony, quotation, writings, individuality and work space. Focusing on the narrative as an outline of content, a representation of really and a method to penetrate it, the artist presents a series of works, such as album covers, directly on the museum surfaces, making holes in the back wall of the room, which then becomes, like works in aluminium, steel and plexiglass, a surface area for his "Martian" writing. A hole or a perforation is De Marchi’s starting point for an analysis of things. He has fun "freely mapping various famous artists - from Fontana to Derrida and Pollock", developing an indecipherable language. To the accompaniment of the notes and rhythms of new musical recordings, areas of light and shade, and playing with the presence nothingness on the surfaces, he communicates new and curious biographies to the public.
roommates/coinquilini: Guendalina Salini / Marinella Senatore
Curated by Benedetta Carpi de Resmini / Benedetta di Loreto . Project conceived and coordinated by Constance Paissan . II floor.
This is the fourth in the series of roommates/coinquilini exhibitions, a project in which the Museum opens its doors to the works of young artists and curators from the Roman scene. On this occasion, Guendalina Salini and Marinella Senatore transform the exhibition area into a theatre of the soul and memory, a reflection on different facets of the local community.
In her work Non troverai mai i confini dell’anima (you will never find the boundaries of the soul), Guendalina Salini creates a large mandala of coloured rods, a structure similar to a sort of impermanent and playful city plan, reminiscent of oriental figurines made of coloured sand, creating a circular diagram of symbolic value. Marinella Senatore instead creates a "theatre of memory" entitled Electric Theatre, in which she performs stories, anecdotes and memories of events and happenings of the past.
SHE DEVIL
V-tunnel, foyer.
For the video screenings in the V-tunnel, MACRO presents She Devil: the latest all-female exhibition of video art that Studio Stefania Miscetti has been successfully producing for years. As in previous editions, the review includes numerous international curators and artists, the aim being to set up an open platform for new and different experiences. She Devil, the name of a Marvel comic hero and title of a famous 1989 film by Susan Seidelman, alludes playfully to the diabolical and bizarre spirit with which artistic experience explores and interacts with everyday life. The videos focus on a female-oriented research and compare different research paths. The initiative aims to arouse, sometimes with humour and at times with realism, the collective consciousness on issues such as female identity, the body as a place of representation and meaning, and personal experience, which has a universal dimension even when it is the intimacy of artists that is brought to the foreground.
New works are continuously presented in MACRO. Because of the close working relationships that MACRO has established with major partners such as UniCredit, institutions, foundations, archives, private collectors and the MACROAmici Association, the museum has a dynamic and constantly growing collection. On display in the new wing are works by Paolo Grassino, Giorgio Griffa, Alfredo Jaar, Arcangelo Sassolino, Tracey Moffatt, Tano Festa, Urs Lüthi, and Fabio Mauri, new photographs from the project “Così come sono / The Way They Are”, developed with the support of UniCredit, and finally the works of the winners of the MACROAmici prize 2011: Claire Fontaine and Seb Patane. On the third floor of MACRO’s historic wing is an exhibition of works by great masters such as Nicola de Maria, Giulio Turcato, Leoncillo, Bice Lazzari, Gianfranco Baruchello, Mimmo Rotella and Pietro Consagra.
Sala Bianca and other areas.
Tomas Saraceno: Cloudy Dunes. When Friedman meets Bucky on Air-Port-City
Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero. Sala Enel.
MACRO presents "Cloudy Dunes. When Friedman Meets Bucky on an Air-Port-City", a special project by Argentinean artist Tomas Saraceno for the spacious Enel Gallery, following in the tradition of Yona Friedman and the theories of Richard Buckminster Fuller. In this work, the artist completely re-designs the room, turning it into an "air-port city", a "cloudy dune" that fertilizes the environment, social life and people’s minds. By interspersing this installation - more than 500 dodecahedra made up of 18 km of electric cable pipes – with video images of the unique natural environment of Lencois Maranhenses Park in northern Brazil, Saraceno transforms the 1200 square metre exhibition hall into an extraordinary floating and suspended universe, in which the visitor can experience new shapes and images and discover new ways of living, travelling and communicating.
Vittorio Corsini: Xenia
Curated by Adriana Polveroni. Terrace.
The installation devised by Vittorio Corsini for the MACRO terrace involves the public emotionally in an unusual story of the city of Rome. The artist organizes space within the social fabric in a way that makes the public the real protagonist of his work. It is a reflection on living space, which is analysed, emphasising the most intimate and poetic conceptual features, by means of a comfortable outdoor sofa. Like a surreal American garden, enclosed by a white fence, visitors can sit on a couch and listen to stories and poems about the city of Rome, written and narrated by Melanie G. Mazzucco and Valerio Magrelli.
An exhibition dedicated to the works and career of Giorgio Forattini.
Prima personale in Italia di Xu Longsen, uno dei protagonisti dell’arte cinese contemporanea
The exhibition aims to raise awareness of the artistic work of Ernesto Che Guevara in the field of photography, a unique opportunity to learn about the artistic side of a revolutionary iconic figure through his own eyes.
The exhibition celebrates a particular "exotic wedding" between seemingly distant cultures, highlighting their little known relationship, through the lives of the many figures, from Columbus to the present day.
Le forme ed i colori dei fondali del Parco marino di Bunaken, Nord Sulawesi, Indonesia. Mostra composta da 45 splendide foto scattate da Vittoria Amati nello straordinario ambiente marino indonesiano, immortalato in tutta sua microscopica ricchezza di particolari anche grazie alla elaborazione grafica di Domenico De Arcangelis.
Dal 9 giugno al 20 luglio (ore 9.00-19.00; chiuso il lunedì) - Sala della Balena
Ingresso gratuito incluso nel biglietto di ingresso al Museo.
Info: 060608 tutti i giorni dalle 9.00 alle 21.00
Unicità d'Italia. Made in Italy and National Identity. 1961/2011, fifty years of Italian know how shown through the ADI Compasso d'Oro Award
The exhibition is staged from an unusual and original perspective, identifying Made in Italy as one of the most dominant and significant factors that has, since 1961, helped to build the national identity. The route through this display of items from the Compasso d'Oro historical collection and the products selected for the XXII award is complemented by video clips and other items that provide historical context for key moments, allowing the exhibition to tell the story of Italian know how over the last half century.
Il sogno fotografico di Franco Angeli 1967-1975 (Franco Angeli's photographic dream, 1967-1975).
On display a brand new collection made of secret and private black and white photos of the artist Franco Angeli, one of the leading figure of the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo, that he chose to to leave to Marina Ripa di Meana, who was his partner for eight intense years, from 1967 to 1975.
On display at the Ara Pacis the collections coming from the building that houses, since 1959, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The works and installations in the exhibition reveal the evidence a lack that becomes a story.
On display the works by the sculptor and painter Ercole Drei, born in Faenza but Roman by adoption, he has left some of his best works in the eternal city.
MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma – and DEPART Foundation present “Lay Me Down” American artist Sarah Braman’s first solo show in Italy. Four sculptures, one of which was specially created for MACRO during her stay in Rome, use light, colour, and matter to investigate and reveal the hidden and surprising desires of our world. “Lay Me down” is made possibile thanks to a joint venture between MACRO and the Fondazione DEPART.
The annual World Press Photo Exhibition is the best known of World Press Photo's activities and is a leading event in the organization's calendar.
Every year following the World Press Photo Contest, the winning images go on tour. In April, the exhibition is officially opened in Amsterdam and can be seen at venues around the globe until March of the next year. The tour program takes in approximately 100 cities in 45 countries and is still expanding.
The exhibition is a showcase for creativity in photojournalism and a platform for developments in the profession, part of World Press Photo's aim of encouraging and stimulating the work of press photographers around the world. The show also attracts a broader public and, because of the wide-ranging focus of the contest, forms an eyewitness record of world events from the previous year.
Images, objects and videos of an extraordinary life tell the story of man who has marked an era: Pope John Paul II. An exhibition that aims to reveal even the Pope's intimacy, a man who gave all of himself to God's people, becoming a beacon of peace.
The Museo di Roma Palazzo Braschi presents (until October 2, 2011) approximately seventy never seen works previously in storage.
This exhibition, the first of its kind in Europe, documents the use of cast iron and its success in the field of applied art.
More than 300 painted eggs are on display, icons on glass and various objects of Romanian tradition.
An exhibition dedicated to these cats and mice - mysterious and fascinating the first, disturbing and controversial the other second- both have inspired writers, musicians, illustrators, poets, artists. The exhibit is divided into several sections, collects old and new materials: paintings, drawings, sculptures, furnishings and decor, books, newspapers, magazines, comic books, collections.
A photographic exhibition documenting the development of the suburbs of Rome
A representative selection of paintings, sculptures and drawings by Mirko Basaldella
Giuseppe Mazzini and music, a special and rich relationship, on display at the Museum of Rome in Trastevere. On display are the three beloved guitars of the "Father of the Republic" along with original documents, personal items coming from the Domus Mazziniana in Pisa and the Mazzini Institute in Genoa. A personal passion with a political spin.
MACRO–Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma – is showing the works of two young Italian artists, Beatrice Pediconi and Roberto De Paolis, who use photography to investigate the fragile, precarious nature of the figures and subjects they capture in their shots. These are presences that acquire a position in space only to the extent that they lose their forms in space itself.
MACRO–Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma presents “New York Shots”, a new project by American photographer Howard Schatz devoted to boxing icons. From March 25, the Museum Hall will become a unique, stunning artistic ring, and an arena for ten large photographs in which Schatz investigates the theme of the body and its role in Italo-American culture.
Nell’ambito dei festeggiamenti del 150° anniversario dell’unità d’Italia, si inserisce l’evento espositivo mostra delle opere degli artisti: Enes Lević, Slavko Medunić, Ruža Gagulić, Loretta Dorbolò, Franco Zerjal, Aleksander Peca
Poetry of nature. Onorato Carlandi's watercolours from the collections of the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art.
The exhibition presents 130 vintages from the CRAFarchives and is dedicated to Italian photography between 1945 and early 1960s, when Mario Giacomelli introduced a new figurative language.
The exhibition brings together, for the first time, some of Alessandra Giovannoni's best work: her poetic view of Rome.
The Oath. Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy
On display, for the first time, the letter sent by Giuseppe Mazzini to Giuseppe Giglioli on July 21, 1831 containing the oath of membership to the " Giovine Italia” (Young Italy). The exhibition is sponsored by the Prime Minister's Presidency and Roma Capitale.
Second in the series “I giorni di Roma” (The days of Rome), this exhibition offers the chance to ponder on Roman portraits, a real communication tool used to affirm political and social prestige in public and commemorative monuments, tombs and private houses from the late Republican age.
MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma – unveils a new design for the ENEL Gallery with works by (international artists) Arcangelo Sassolino, Ernesto Neto, and Dan Perjovschi.
An ideal showcase for different art forms, with these three artists MACRO is offering multisensorial experience, inspiring a greater awareness of our own position in space and allowing us to take full possession of the works.
MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma – unveils a new design for the ENEL Gallery with works by (international artists) Arcangelo Sassolino, Ernesto Neto, and Dan Perjovschi.
An ideal showcase for different art forms, with these three artists MACRO is offering multisensorial experience, inspiring a greater awareness of our own position in space and allowing us to take full possession of the works.
On display are the copper axes (2500-2300 BC) from the Royal Palace of the ancient city of Batrawy (northern Jordan), discovered by the archaeological mission of the Sapienza University of Rome, after the restoration carried out by the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione e il Restauro in Rome.
The artist captures the disturbing and mysterious appearance of the sirens. Ulysses had the chance to listen to their songs without being drawn th them.
MACRO presents “Canone Aureo” (“The Golden Ratio”), an exhibition of new works by Giorgio Griffa, one of the greatest names in contemporary Italian painting. Specially created by the artist for the Museum, four large canvases interpret its architecture and create an immediate dialogue with its surfaces.
MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma – is presenting the outstanding, sophisticated ceramic works of Pablo Echaurren on the walls of the central Hall. Six works create a most unsuspected interaction between Baroque and rock music, in an intermingling of genres and worlds that disorients both eye and mind.
From 12 February, two new works that have recently entered the collection will go on display, interacting with the architecture of the Museum and revealing unexpected vistas through their use of different media. Giuseppe Pietroniro’s photograph Interno MACRO Roma (2010) will be shown thanks to collaboration with the Associazione Giubilarte Eventi of Valentina Ciarallo. An important partnership is continuing with UniCredit, whose support allows MACRO to present the Untitled installation (2010) by the ZimmerFrei collective. The Museum collection is thus continuing to expand, with loans and donations giving it greater wealth and complexity.
MACRO presents in the Enel Gallery the latest work by the Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi: an ironic, caustic, contemporary fresco that reflects on the infinite contradictions of the modern world through the freedom of sign and word.
Perjovschi will be the first artist to work directly on the skin of the new MACRO, and visitors will be able to watch him as he creates his work. In a performance lasting a number of days, and entirely visible to the public, Perjovschi will realize a large satirical work brought to life by paradoxical drawings and epigrams.
L'artista rumeno Dan Perjovschi sarà il primo artista a lavorare direttamente sulla pelle del nuovo MACRO, mentre i visitatori potranno assistere alla sua creazione “in tempo reale”: attraverso la performance di alcuni giorni, Perjovschi darà vita a una grande opera satirica, animata da epigrammi e disegni paradossali.
The exhibition aims to investigate in depth the relationship between two Masters of International Photography: Paul Strand and Walter Rosenblum, adding further significant insights to their works.