Exhibitions
The districts, narrow streets and houses of times past shown in the watercolours painted by Ettore Roesler Franz (1845-1907) provide a record and a reminder of how Rome looked up until the end of the 19th century.
The exhibition features a selection of visual images, archive material and period journals divided into six sections, each of which provides an in-depth perspective of different aspects of Trastevere: changes to the fabric of the district and events it has witnessed, its historic heritage, the history of the River Tiber, the history of places in Trastevere that have provided succour, education, imprisonment and of local productive activities and last but not least, social and cultural changes.
The exhibition to mark the 500 years since the building of St. Peter’s Basilica first began will set out a chronological record of views of the Patriarchal Basilica as captured through the lens of a camera.
This unstructured and easy-going display comprises more than one hundred comic/cartoon sketches and strips, both in black and white and colour all about women in the workplace and aspects of that world that continue to surprise.
Exhibit dedicated to the famous German photographer Herbert List (1903-1975), with a selection of his most celebrated masterpieces and an unpublished collection of images shot in Rome and throughout Italy between the 1930s and the 1950s.
His “metaphysical photography” encounters views of Rome’s piazzas and streets; portraits of great Italian intellectuals alternate with the faces of ordinary people - holding up a mirror to a generation just emerging from the drama of World War II.
For this his first individual show in an European museum, Avish Khebrehzadeh has selected a series of previously unseen works: two video animations that are projected on to large pictures done in ink and pencil on Japanese kozo paper that has been treated with resin and olive oil and a few oil paintings done on wooden plaster boards.
An anthology dedicated to Giuseppe Gallo, a member of the New Roman School. The exhibition is just one of a series featuring Roman artists, specifically those who were part of the San Lorenzo group and follows on from earlier displays that featured Nunzio, Gianni Dessì and Piero Pizzi Cannella respectively.
The title for this exhibition was inspired by the title and the thought provoking content of Boccioni’s 1910 futuristic painting and the display route has been designed as an exploration into the nature of construction, its materialism, the immediate impact and illusion created by buildings visually and symbolically, but also how they represent the desire to achieve Utopia.
For decades now, the icons of contemporary cinema - the most famous actors, the most shy and modest directors and the biggest, party-going stars have been happy to let Timothy Greenfield-Sanders turn his camera lens in their direction and for the first time ever, his work is finally being shown in Rome.
Dedicated to the “Il Diaframma” gallery, which Lanfranco Colombo opened in Milan in 1967, the exhibition illustrates various aspects of the history of Italian and international photography from the Sixties to today: including reporting and research, portraits and naturalistic photography, fashion and still life.
The Lord of the Rocks, the Steinbeck, sometimes known as an Ibex, makes his way down from the Alps and into Rome’s Museo Civico di Zoologia, where members of the pubic will have the opportunity to admire rare, perfectly preserved exemplars of the species and learn about the complex biological and evolutionary history of one of Italy’s favourite mountain animals.
The exhibition is dedicated to the great Japanese sculptor who creates pure shapes, reducing language to basics. The sculpture, set along an exhibition route that forms a small semi-circle between the Via Biberatica and the Grande Aula, seem to be living presences inviting visitors to contemplation and silence. The works of art have been created by the artist in Carrara marble, bronze and black granite.
The City of Rome, on the suggestion of the Archive of the School of Rome, has instituted, inside the Main House of the Villa Torlonia, the permanent museum of the School of Rome, with works by the most important artists who have been part of it.
Rocce e nuvole, l’infinitamente leggero e l’infinitamente pesante della Natura, vengono rappresentate nella loro costante mutevolezza dagli specchi di Paolo Hermanin che, nella sua prima personale a Roma, espone 7+2 opere realizzate con una tecnica unica, utilizzata per la prima volta 25 anni fa.
A retrospective which, with approximately 360 costumes and rare, archived materials celebratesValentino’s 45 years of creativity, through a spectacular display at the Museum of the Ara Pacis.
The prison of the body and the impossibility of the gaze, a reflection on the condition of modern man and its isolation is the basis of the work of Bernardí Roig (born in Palma di Maiorca in 1965) and his first solo show in Rome.
A selection of 70 watercolours which document various aspects of the city that have disappeared or changed radically in the course of time. An exhibition, in homage to Achille Pinelli, one of the most prominent figures of the artistic world of nineteenth century Rome and the son of the more famous Bartolomeo, is an occasion to celebrate the vast heritage conserved in the collections of the Museum of Rome.
An exhibition which transfers onto canvas the horror od the photos taken in the Iraqi prisons of Abu Gharib and published in 2004.
This exhibition, curated by Maurizio Calvesi, will bring to the attention of the public an artist who for too long has unjustly languished in obscurity. It consists of 62 paintings, 15 of which are views of the Villa Borghese.
A wide selection of works by Paolo Pellegrin, curated by Giuseppe Prode.
After Pedro Cabrita Reis’ exhibition for MACRO HALL now is the moment of the Van Lieshout Atelier with Technocrat, a site specific installation: a huge machine which recycles organic material. The Van Lieshout Atelier, a multidisciplinary group founded in 1995 by Joep van Lieshout, works at an international level in the field of contemporary art, design and architecture.
Their aim is to surpass the barriers characteristic of the visual arts, and which have often coerced them. Contradicting the myth of the single inspired creator, the members of the workshop work together as a creative team in continuous interdisciplinary collaboration in architecture, painting, sculpture and design.
Approximately forty works from Ghada Amer’s new exhibition (Cairo 1963) are on display at MACRO.
Paintings on canvas and drawings on paper as well as installations characterised by embroidery with coloured threads, a favourite stylistic trait of the Egyptian artist, who has always used the needle and thread as artistic tools. A selection of works covering twenty years of an artistic career, divided into four main themes: reflections on words and writing, works inspired by the female condition, eroticism, and drawing explored from various angles.
In MACRO’s Nothing from Nothing exhibition, Paolo Canevari presents a new series of works made up of drawings on large size paper, video projections, and a sculptural installation.
They are a collection of works based for the most part on political and environmental themes, the result of the most recent developments in the artist’s research.
It is difficult, perhaps not even legitimate, to talk of a work of art by an artist who makes his practice a continual experimentation, as in the case of Angelica D’Ottavio.
Versatile in all his characteristics, Angelica’s painting, and his sculpture, are open to the most diverse experiences and the most various techniques.
Le Jeu de’Hombre. The development of the courtly virtues, curated by Antonio Arévalo, is the Roman contribution to Twin Muses, the exhibition of contemporary art, an initiative which has for years involved many of the cities of Italy. This year 24 museums will be hosting the exhibition.
En esta exposición se presenta una estudiada selección de 30 esculturas, 10 pinturas y 20 dibujos de las fases más relevantes de la vida artística de Antonietta Raphaël, desde finales de los años 20 hasta principios de los 70 , una de las artistas italianas más importantes del siglo XX.
The oldest known perfume factory in the Mediterranean, buried by an earthquake in the IInd millenium B.C. has been brought to light in Pyrgos on the island of Cyprus by research from 1998 onwards by the Italian Archaeological Mission of CNR.
This exhibition presents more than 100 archaeological finds from the excavations and the nearby Museum of Limassol, as well as the fragrances themselves, which have been recreated using the techniques of experimental archaeology.
Una mostra multimediale che raccoglie foto, manoscritti, filmati e sceneggiature, una retrospettiva tematica e lezioni spettacolo. Un viaggio ideale tra l'opera di Rossellini e quella dei grandi umanisti suoi maestri e ispiratori.
To halt the images of the film camera and transfer their flow to the fixity of paper. This is the difficult task of a set photographer, called to narrate the essence of a film through sequences “without movement”.