At MAXXI an exhibition on a critic: Alberto Boatto

From Oct. 1 to 10, MAXXI in Rome presents the exhibition Alberto Boatto. The Gaze from Outside, curated by Stefano Chiodi. For the first time, a focus dedicated to the archive of a critic, Alberto Boatto (Florence, 1929 - Rome, 2017), one of the most original and influential figures of the second half of the Italian 20th century, a direct witness of the radical transformations in artistic practices contemporary to him.

The project presents a significant selection from Boatto’s personal archive, generously donated by his family to MAXXI in 2019, consisting of correspondence, manuscripts and his numerous publications. It includes all aspects of his intellectual work, exchanges with friends, artists, critics and writers, notebooks, early drafts of his books and some unpublished texts of great interest. The sum of a lifetime of thinking and writing that is now offered for public attention and scholarly research.

Boatto’s was a “gaze from the outside,” the gaze of both the castaway and the space explorer, that is, of one who observes the world from an external, solitary, remote point and grasps its new and surprising physiognomy.

For all information you can visit MAXXI’s official website.

Ph. credit: Massimo Piersanti

At MAXXI an exhibition on a critic: Alberto Boatto

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