Exhibitions
Roma Capitale, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e Centro Storico – Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali and MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma are proud to present the winners of the MACRO 2% competition: “Rope” by Arthur Duff and “Orizzonte Galleggiante” by Nathalie Junod Ponsard.
Exploiting the potential of light – the Competition’s theme – Arthur Duff (Wiesbaden, Germany, 1973) and Nathalie Junod Ponsard (Compiegne, France, 1961) offer the Museum and its visitors two public art installations. With a new approach to space, they transform transit areas into a meeting ground for the public and contemporary art to come together.
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.
Tribute to the great architect and designer Gio Ponti with ceramics designed for Richard-Ginori between 1923 and 1930.
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.
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.
After the success of recent events aimed at enhancing works in the collection - notably the exhibition “Percorsi del Novecento romano dalla Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna”, held at Villa Torlonia - Casino dei Principi in 2010, and “Poesia della natura. Acquerelli di Onorato Carlandi dalle collezioni della Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna”, held at the Museum of Rome in 2011 - the inaugural exhibition of the museum on via Crispi presents an original reading of the masterpieces of one of most important collections of modern art in Rome.
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.
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"
An exhibition dedicated to Steve McCurry, one of the greatest photographers of our century.
The exhibition aims to illustrate the work of Vincenzo Fasolo (1885-1969).
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.
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.
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.
For the program Postcard from…, a project conceived by Marcello Smarrelli and promoted by by the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome, a poster by Damien Hirst titled Nucleohistone, taken fom the work of the same name he made in 2008/2011, will be on display at the main entrance of the MACRO in conjunction with the exhibition at the Pastificio.
A selection of more than fifty shots by one of the most talented photographers: Evgen Bavčar. The pictures by the blind Slovenian artist, philosopher and photographer, are evocative visions of space, lights, shapes and smells of childhood, snapshots of tactile and sensory perceptions captured by his daring and poetic inner eye. Evgen Bavčar teaches us how to “see” from another perspective.
Epic Painting is the title chosen by Gianni Mercurio for the exhibition hosted at the Museo Carlo Bilotti dedicated to Santo Tomaino, clearly alluding to the most striking and evident peculiarity of his painting: the epic narrative quality of his images.
The work of the Korean artist Minjung Kim is a projection of the imaginary and the imagination. The encounter between East and West in the Minjung Kim's work is played on contamination, exchange, stratification, a "breakthrough" of signs and spots. Signs and spots that go beyond representation and give way to the vitality of the gesture. These are not landscapes, portraits or other items, but paper-ink-brush-combustion assembled all together.
The exhibition, curated by Simona Rossi and Dominique Lora in collaboration with Gao Zhen e Gao Qiang (also known as the Gao Brothers) focuses on the latest trends of Chinese contemporary art scene. A glocal perspective, as Achille Bonito Oliva would define it, where traditions and cultural identity meet towards a transnational creative model.
Stefano Cioffi, born in Naples and working in Rome, is an artist and a musician. His photographic exhibition at Museo Carlo Bilotti, the very heart of the Villa Borghese park, is both a musical and visual consideration on the concept of rest and time. The artist captures evasive actions, expectations, marks, chasing stories narrated in simple details seen through lens that capture the secret music of places. The photographer integrates black and white photographs with a video directed and scored by the artist and a slideshow installation with 150 images played in loop.
Contemporary arts of the XX and XXI century