Tonight on Rai 5 double documentary on MAXXI L'Aquila and Zaha Hadid

On the occasion of the opening of the new MAXXI L’Aquila, this evening Art Night on Rai 5 offers an evening entirely dedicated tocontemporary architecture, including a documentary dedicated precisely to MAXXI L’Aquila. The appointment is at 9:15 p.m. with an episode of the program by Silvia De Felice and Massimo Favia and Marta Santella (directed by Andrea Montemaggiori).

The documentary on MAXXI L’Aquila will take the audience directly inside Palazzo Ardinghelli, a magnificent example of Baroque architecture in the heart of L’Aquila. It is one of the symbols of a city destined, at secular cadences, to collapse and be reborn from its rubble. Redesigning its profile each time, according to the spirit of the age, imbuing itself with traces of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque. Its medieval base was born after the 14th-century earthquake, while its Baroque form sprouted from the rubble of the 1703 earthquake. And today, having dressed the wounds of the last earthquake, the building is preparing to become an art hub on a planetary scale, hosting the L’Aquila branch of MAXXI.

It is a settlement that fits fully into the city’s centuries-old history. L’Aquila has always attracted and allowed artistic experiences of the highest caliber to germinate within it. In the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, L’Aquila was called “the little Arcadia,” a destination for the great painters of the Neapolitan school. In the last decades of the twentieth century, however, it was called “the Parnassus,” because the local Academy of Fine Arts and the city theater became a magnet for artists and theatrical performers of the caliber of Piero Sadun, Joseph Beuys, Carmelo Bene, Sylvano Bussotti, Gino Marotta, Gigi Proietti, Alida Valli, Antonio Calenda, and many, many others. The great L’Aquila painter Marcello Mariani, appreciated worldwide, was inseparable from his L’Aquila, which he dubbed “little Salzburg.” After the 2009 earthquake, he knew how to revitalize the rubble, turning it into works, into precious fragments of memory. Witnessing that art, through beauty, can lovingly medicate the wounds of a battered city. A principle shared by the Off Site Art project, created to convene artists from all over the world, to cover the scaffolding of reconstruction with great works. The birth of MAXXI in L’Aquila opens a new chapter, confirming the city’s centuries-old artistic vocation and projecting it toward an international future. This documentary is an original Rai Cultura production, written by Silvia De Felice and Giuseppe Sansonna, and directed by Giuseppe Sansonna.

Next, Art Night features the documentary dedicated to Zaha Hadid: a never-before-seen portrait of the architect who designed the MAXXI headquarters in Rome, creating an iconic image of the museum. Arriving in London from Iraq in 1972 to study at the Architectural Association, Hadid established her own firm in 1980 and initiated a pioneering form of design that enabled her to create buildings and objects with unprecedented plasticity. Counted among the world’s most famous architects, she was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004. Since then, she has multiplied amazing projects: museums, towers, bridges, opera houses, stadiums, many in Italy such as the Afragola (Naples) Station.

Tonight on Rai 5 double documentary on MAXXI L'Aquila and Zaha Hadid

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