Exhibiciones
The exhibition marks the reopening of the Galleria with three itineraries focusing on key themes that run through the whole chronological span of the collection, presenting the masterpieces in an absolutely unprecedented perspective.
Please note: the exhibition has been extended to September 30, 2012.
Modern Art (from the XV to the XIX century)
For the first and possibly only time in history, one hundred original and priceless documents selected among the treasures preserved and cherished by the Vatican Secret Archives for centuriesy leave the Vatican City walls. And they will do so in order to be housed and displayed in the beautiful halls of the Capitoline Museums in Rome.
MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma is pleased to present CREATIVE COUPLES/when design is by four hands: a program of two-month-length design exhibitions in the museum’s space Area by creative couples from the Italian landscape.
First invited are German designers Catharina Lorenz and Steffen Kaz, who founded Lorenz * Kaz studio in Milan in 2001.
First event of the "Collezionismi" project dedicated to the investigation and speculation on the value, principles and perspectives of both public and private collections. The Berlingieri collection, started in the mid-sixties with a strong inclination towards minimalist and conceptual art, has been gradually enriched with works that retain a strong visual-analytic imprint.
Maloberti has designed for the Enel white room two installations where imagination and physical energy, stamina and speed, order and disorder, are compared and combined in a spectacular way.
Please note: the exhibition has been extended to 3 June, 2012.
The project MACROeo(electronicOrphanage) conceived by the artist Miltos Manetas, is a platform that focuses on new technologies and the possibilities opened up by new media.
The exhibition features works especially conceived for the MACRO. The title he chose, the Latin motto Sic transit gloria mundi, provides a clue about the topics explored by the artist: beauty, time, life and death, and about the characteristics of his work, which combines, as in an ancient allegorical representation, sacred and profane, seriousness and humor.
Please note: the exhibition has been extended to 3 June, 2012.
Pascale Marthine Tayou's work suggests a different and correct use of plastic bags, which have become emblematic objects of the contemporary human condition, a symbol of globalization, rampant consumerism, but also of the nomadic lifestyle that increasingly characterizes today's society.
The exhibition dedicated to Vettor Pisani, few months after his death, is the first appointment of the "Tributes", a focus on the artists that have shaped the historical roots of today's contemporary art.
The exhibition, sponsored by the Associazione Amici di Villa Strohl-Fern, pays tribute to the patronage exercised by Alfred W. Strohl-Fern who hosted in his Villa, founded in 1879 in the Villa Borghese park, several Italian and foreign artists for a period of about eighty years.
Arabic calligraphy has a special spiritual significance – as it is used for writing the Koran, the Islamic sacred scriptures – and an intrinsic decorative value that plays an important role in Islamic art.
"Io amo l'Italia!" (I love Italy!) was a phrase that the New York-based photographer liked to say after his first visit to our country in 1956.
MACRO/1:1projects ARCHIVE is an archive dedicated to young artists: an indispensable point of reference for research, open to the public and available to scholars and researchers. The initial core of the collection is formed by the material and the documentation collected by the Associazione culturale 1:1projects, given on loan to MACRO for a long-term period.
The exhibition features works by Karen Blixen, Luigi Ontani, Erik Satie, Luchino Visconti, four great European artist who may truly be considered Great Dandies, for their works, their choices, and especially for their lifestyle.
The most remarkable achievements of Russian art in the XX century - Cubo-Futurism, with its unique synthesis of European trends of the time, the originality of Abstract art, Constructivism, with its architectural compositions, and Suprematism with its geometric purity - are represented in this single major exhibition: Russian Avant-gardes.
On display a series of six maps by Louis-Albert-Bacler-Ghislain d'Albe, dedicated to the Napoleonic campaigns in Italy, donated to the Napoleonic Museum in Rome by Count Pompeo Campello.
On display reproductions of old photographs, paintings, watercolours, engravings, all coming from the collections of the Museum of Rome Palazzo Braschi and the Museum of Rome in Trastevere, a valuable documentation of the vast area of Prati di Castello, the current Prati, before the first stone of the monument to Cavour was laid in 1885.
16 poems by Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987, printed on original special wooden forms made by the artist.
An exhibition of images from the latest edition of the World Press Photo Award, one of the most important awards available for aspiring photojournalists. The Photo of the Year 2011 is by the Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda.
Exhibition organized by the Embassy of Latvia in Rome in the framework of the 2012 Festival of Europe, aims to present the beauties and eclectic styles of the architecture in Riga.
These 80 shots aims at showing the other side of the planet, the unknown wonders of the sea and its creatures.
Presentation to the press: 10 May, 2012.
FOTOGRAFIA in collezione presents 35 works from Rome Commission: the FOTOGRAFIA Festival Internazionale di Roma’s section that, since 2003, commissions to Italian as well as international artists a phographic portrait of the city.
Studio degli allievi della Scuola d’Arte e dei Mestieri del Comune di Roma “Scienza e Tecnica”.
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