Exhibitions
In the evocative space of La Pelanda in MACRO Testaccio, Bernardo Siciliano presents Naked City, an exhibition curated by Maria Ida Gaeta and Lea Mattarella: on display large canvases of female nudes and small or medium sized paintings of New York, where the artist has been living for more than ten years.
An exhibition of the paintings of Princess Wijdan Al-Hashemi, Jordan's ambassador to Italy.
Works, drawings and installations by the Ecuadorian artist Amaru Cholango
An exhibition of posters, photos, lobby cards, and other movie memorabilia, with original paintings on the theme of the event by Marina Cenci, Ilaria Piacentini and Massimo Ranieri. The exhibition traces the history of the city of Rome in the fascinating period between the 1950s and 1960s.
MACROwall:Eighties are Back! is a project that revisits Italian art of the 1980s via a collection of ten artists who represent the diverse types of research that characterized the artistic production that occurred in the decade. Each artist was invited to feature two pieces, one recent work and one from the 80s. to allow the public to examine the evolution of the creative process over the years. Each piece is accompanied by commentary from two art critics who represent the generations during which each work was made, the younger critic providing an analysis of the older work and vice versa. The audience is given the opportunity to observe how the creative process evolves over time.
The first instalment of MACROwall: Eighties are Back! features Alfredo Pirri (born in Cosenza in 1957): author, painter, sculptor and installation artist. His works are born of the union between the figurative and the abstract, reality and fiction, elements that alternate and overlap to arrive at artistic expression through expression of purity of form. The seemingly minimalist work on display at MACRO highlights the link found between color and light. Visitors observe the intense dialogue between light and color as they play out on the same wall and then experience the charge of energy from the interchange.
MACRO is pleased to offer its visitors this special preview of the Museum’s new wing designed by Odile Decq, featuring a selection of artworks which will highlight the potential of these new spaces. This exceptional event will take place May 29 and 30: a weekend which will make of Rome a global capital of contemporary art.
Visitors will also be able to preview the exhibits in MACRO's Via Reggio Emilia galleries.
To reserve a free visit of MACRO please book on-line:
www.macroeventi.org
World Press Photo is known for organizing, since 1955, the world’s largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest. The World Press Photo exhibition is the result of a worldwide annual competition attracting entries from leading photojournalists, agencies, newspapers and magazines from across the globe. Prize-winning photographs are assembled into a travelling exhibition that is visited by over two million people in some 45 countries worldwide. A yearbook presenting all prize-winning entries is published annually in six languages.
An exhibition of Paola Crema’s sculptural-jewellery held at the Casina delle Civette (House of the Owls) and the dépendance of Villa Torlonia.
Following the success of his book of photographs on New York, in 1956 a young William Klein (painter, graphic artist and photographer), arrived in Rome to assist Federico Fellini in the direction of the film Nights of Cabiria (1957). Taking advantages of a delay in the shooting starting, Klein with his camera, strolled about the city with Fellini, Pasolini, Flaiano, Moravia, and other avant-garde Italian writers and artists serving as his guides. The young American photographer captured the magical atmosphere of the Fifties, depicting a new powerful photographic fresco of Rome.
A great master of contemporary art, Daniel Buren conceived his first major permanent work in Rome for the museum while observing and exploring MACRO’s spaces. Imagined for the area known as the “belvedere,” Buren’s reflective work with its wonderful play of light and perspective will become a part of the museum’s future. It will participate a few months from now in the birth of the new wing designed by Odile Decq, while already “reflecting” its growth.
DigitaLife is an opportunity to offer a complex-free perspective on the future:without naivety but without solemnity. an assumed future.
The exhibition displays 164 photographs which illustrate the methodical exploration of landscapes in the work of Stephen Shore and its strong parallel with conceptual art.
Arriving in Rome just one week after the 70th anniversary of the birth of Fabrizio De André, the multi-medial, inter-active exhibition, put together by Studio Azzuro, lays out the life, music, experiences and passions that made “Faber”, as he was sometimes known, such a unique and universal artist.
The restless and hard life of Princess Charlotte, Napoleon’s niece.