Expositions
This is the first time a group exhibition featuring works from Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s collection have been shown in Rome, presenting an important selection of Italian and International artists who have made the story of art from the Eighties up to today.
The fourth appointment of Macro Wall:Eighties are back! focuses on sculptor Vittorio Corsini (Cecina, Livorno, 1956). Vittorio Corsini’s work stems from a meditation on living space, which is analyzed considering its most intimate conceptual and poetic features, through a series of works in different materials, from rope to glass, from iron to plastic.
Twenty years ago, when digital media began to rise in importance, Benedetto Marcucci made the first book in oil. Now the artist presents at the MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma - a project conceived in the nineties but never achieved: the Treccani in oil.
The new installation by Bik Van der Pol – a house with hundreds of butterflies inspired by Mies van der Rohe’s popular Farnsworth House – is the work chosen to inaugurate the new wing of the MACRO museum.
On the occasion of the International Rome Film Festival, on the fiftieth anniversary of La Dolce Vita and ninety years after the birth of Federico Fellini, the Film Library of Bologna pays tribute to the great master with an exhibition-event.
MACRO hosts two installations by Riccardo Benassi and Tomaso de Luca – the winners of the first edition of the 6ARTISTA prize – in confirmation of the constant attention of the Museum to the new generations of artists living or working in Rome.
The first exhibition in Italy of the British artist Antony Gormley, one of the most respected sculptors of the contemporary art scene.
An extraordinary audio-visual exhibition dedicated to one of the great protagonists of the documentary: guided by the words of Franco Simongini, visitors can see some of the greatest Italian artists of the twentieth century and listen to their voices.
Hiker Meat is the new project of the English artist Jamie Shovlin: a collaged film, consisting of over one thousand clips of found footage of a never released film, a memory of a past experience.
An amazing immersion into the heart of the creativity of Mario Schifano, one of the most innovative international artist of the second half of the twentieth century.
An extraordinary visual journey, through images, places, languages, cultures and the people who have lived in international and experimental milieu of Rome in the Sixties.
After Alfredo Pirri and Luigi Carboni, the series of exhibitions dedicated to the "art histories" of the 80s continues with Nunzio, one of the most original artist of the generation blossomed in those years and still a leading figure in the Italian and International scene.
Nico Vascellari, a young artist of international renown, presents “Blonde”, a project conceived for the curved walls of the Museum, that aims to give these transit areas a new life and new meanings.
The hall of the museum is transformed into a large sculpture that can be crossed, thanks to the space scanning proposed by Nicola Carrino: the artist has specifically created this work for the heart of the museum to welcome the visitor.
MACRO presents a new setting of its collection that aims at redefining the concepts of space, form and sign, marking a new nature of the universe that embraces figuration and mechanicness.
Third event of the "Roommates" series, a project that invites two young Roman (or working in Rome) artists to share the same exhibiting space and to dialogue with each other.
On display, for the first time, “Homines” by Mario Ballocco: disturbing, cruel and desperate, stylized entities, that embody the dynamics of anthropological and social aspects of our daily lives: falling in love, conflicts, submissiveness, betrayal, cultural and political commitment and much more.
MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma - hosts in the hall two large works by the Italian artist Sergio Ragalzi that have recently became part of the collection of the Museum.
The new edition of FotoGrafia, Rome's international festival of photography, whose theme this year is FUTURSPECTIVES, or “can photography predict the future?”
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.
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.
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.
Al via la prima edizione della Festa dell’Architettura di Roma, ospitata in quattro location - la Casa dell’Architettura all'Acquario Romano (9 giugno), l’Auditorium Parco della Musica e il MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo (10 giugno), il MACRO Testaccio (11 e 12 giugno), con un fitto programma di incontri, lezioni, mostre, convegni e conferenze e oltre settanta eventi collaterali in tutta la città (fino al 27 giugno ).
La Festa dell’Architettura di Roma ha l’obiettivo di raccogliere le riflessioni sulla città proposte sia da esperti, sia dalla comunità culturale e civile, attraverso il confronto con altre metropoli.La proposta culturale della Festa è l’osservazione analitica della città di Roma, del suo sviluppo e del suo ruolo futuro nel panorama architettonico internazionale contemporaneo.
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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.
MACRO will dedicate one of its large galleries to a solo show from the young American artist Aaron Young (San Francisco, California, 1972), curated by Costanza Paissan. Called upon to create a site-specific installation, Young re-imagined the exhibition space by infusing it with urban ambience and exposing how the diverse stories and languages of a city can coexist.
The four videos in the show were shot in a variety of locations from the Palace of Versailles to a frozen lake in New York State. The camera is constantly being flipped upside down and kicked around by the artist until it is fully destroyed. The resulting footage creates a melange of sights and sounds, catching the viewer off-guard and upsetting his sense of space. One of the videos, created specially for this exhibition presents a liberal and disillusioned interpretation of Rome’s classical image and that of a symbolic monument, the Colosseum.
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.
MACRO inaugurates the entrance to its new wing with a site specific installation by Jacob Hashimoto. Silence Still Governs Our Consciousness creates a floating realm which anticipates the journey from MACRO’s present to its future.
Hashimoto conceived this “cloud of 7000 kites” specifically for MACRO’s new exhibition gallery. The work fills the room like a “diaphanous canopy” evoking in its spectators the sensation of being “surrounded by a mist filled forest of kites and strings - a quiet, meditative, sculptural environment.” The piece synthesizes nature and technology to yield a fluid and organic landscape. This encourages meditation and evokes new readings of the gallery: as a void, as space, or as time.
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.
Micro, Aureo, Adela is the project MACRO commissioned from Spanish artist Jorge Peris (born in Alzira, Valencia, 1969). Specially realized for this space, the installation is the fruit of Peris recent work. Recreating the environment of a salt mine, Peris turns one of the Museum’s galleries into an extreme ecosystem. Exploring the relationship between salt and water, he brings his audience on a journey into the infinite past.
Jorge Peris consulted with physicists and marine biologists, in order to study the dynamics of the origins of life. The artificial ecosystem which resulted from this research is based on the memory of salt and accompanies the visitor on their journey into the past, according to the rhythms of the golden mean. The formation of the saline stalactites is governed by the Coriolis effect and creates a corridor of time-space continuum, a window onto our ancestral past. The Artemia Salinae are forms of primordial life that have maintained their original characteristics through the millennia, harking back to the origins of life on earth.
The MACRO SPECIAL PROJECTS program, begun in the summer of 2009, brings young artists the possibility of interacting with the Museum’s alternative gallery spaces. Artists such as Francesco Simeti and the Cuoghi Corsello duo took over the open-plan elevator shafts and semi-circular walls in the atrium bringing a new life and meaning to the spaces. The metamorphoses of these spaces continues with Luca Trevisani, breathing new life into Museum’s corridors.
An evolution of Gibbous and Waning, Trevisani’s work Space is a Garden to Cultivate, through its at once organic and artificial forms represents the lunar phases within cosmic space. The images evoke tidal rhythms, astral movements, stellar geometry, and the forces and entities which, determining times and seasons, govern human life. Interested by the influence the moon exerts on individuals, the artist uses industrial PVC surfaces on which he represents forms to evoke the gravitational pull on bodies. Two complimentary images face each other and dialogue in a game of attraction and repulsion, thus generating a celestial choreography based on complimentary, reciprocal, and multiplying points of view.
After the extraordinary response from our visitors, Rome, We Were the Avant-Garde will remain on view for the entirety of the summer exhibition season. This show has managed to cross the boundaries that traditionally divide generations and has opened dialogue with all types of public personalities. MACRO has decided to extend this show in a summer full of cultural activity because the memory of avant-garde Rome is relevant to the city’s interaction with the international community
MACRO continues to celebrate the avant-garde art and architecture of Rome by presenting again the show Oscar Savio: Architecture in Black and White during the summer exhibition program. The exhibition is being brought back as an editorial program, proposing a “treasure hunt” of sorts in the city, a race through stories and symbols that surprise the viewer and stimulate interest in the rediscovery of Rome.
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.
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Il 28 aprile 2010, alle ore 18.30, lo IED – Istituto Europeo di Design – di Roma, in collaborazione con il MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma – presenta Forward>>Looking una mostra evento all’interno degli spazi espositivi del MACRO FUTURE, a cura del collettivo Cur’Art-Emergenze Contemporanee che propone i progetti di 16 curatori emergenti. L’iniziativa è promossa dal Comune di Roma, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e della Comunicazione – Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali.
Forward>>Looking espone i progetti di sedici curatori emergenti in un importante luogo del contemporaneo, MACRO FUTURE, contraddistinto dall’indagine sulle nuove “generazioni” delle arti visive. Si metteranno a confronto ricerche curatoriali accomunate dalla necessità di narrare storie messe in scena in un luogo condiviso. Dall’ideazione di una residenza, alla gestione di uno spazio espositivo stabile, all’evento site specific, la mostra pone al suo centro l’arte e la pluralità delle sue declinazioni.
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.
La hall del Museo ospita una visionaria torre di Enzo Cucchi, composta da tre forme cilindriche sovrapposte in metallo praticabili dal visitatore, il quale è invitato ad entrarvi per scoprire l’universo di immagini in esse racchiuso, fatto di presenze antropomorfiche e volumi sospesi (teste, teschi, agglomerati di pittura, sfere sottili), che risuonano come un contrappunto al contempo emotivo e visivo: un “costume interiore” appunto.
Nell'ambito della presentazione di un nuovo allestimento della collezione del museo, MACRO espone The Blue Carpet di Ilya & Emilia Kabakov. Una grande sala del museo sarà occupata da un enorme tappeto blu, sul cui perimetro gli artisti hanno scelto di collocare una serie di piccoli quadri. Lo spettatore, entrando in questo luogo protetto e in penombra, non solo avvertirà il senso di una tranquillità silenziosa e raccolta, ma potrà anche prendere possesso dell’ ambiente stendendosi nel mare di pensieri che può evocare.
Con Valentino Diego e Pietro Ruffo, proposti rispettivamente dalle curatrici Sabrina Vedovotto e Ilaria Marotta, inizia il secondo appuntamento del ciclo di mostre roommates/coinquilini, grazie al quale il MACRO si apre al lavoro di altri giovani curatori e artisti della scena romana. Una stanza del museo diviene così un appartamento “artistico” in cui convivono identità diverse – un contesto in cui le differenze rimangono visibili e allo stesso tempo si determinano situazioni di incontro e di scambio.