At MAXXI in Rome, the exhibition chronicling the plurality of Italian and international artistic research

From June 28 to Feb. 25, 2023, the exhibition Fuori Tutto, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi; architecture section curated by Pippo Ciorra, Laura Felci, Elena Tinacci, and photography section curated by Simona Antonacci; Videogallery curated by Irene de Vico Fallani, Giulia Lopalco, Archive Wall curated by MAXXI Arte Archive Center, can be visited at MAXXI in Rome, in Gallery 1 and Gallery 3.

The exhibition aims to recount the vitality and plurality of Italian and international artistic research among painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, video, installation, performance and sound experimentation. Artists featured include Rosa Barba, Elisabetta Di Maggio, MASBEDO, Jannis Kounellis, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Pedro Reyes, and Patrick Tuttofuoco. Among the architects, projects by Giorgio Grassi, Matilde Cassani, Francesca Torzo and DEMOGO have been selected to create a long-distance dialogue between authors of different generations, united by the international dimension of their design activities.

The exhibition also becomes the place to narrate the working process behind MAXXI’s photographic commissions, such as the collective photographic project Atlante Sapienza, in collaboration with Sapienza University of Rome, involving Iwan Baan, Antonio Biasiucci, Silvia Camporesi, Marina Caneve, and Carlo Valsecchi on the University City, and Valentina Vannicola’s La Processione, a photographic transposition of the XXIX canto of Dante’s Purgatorio.

Conceived as an open repository, Fuori Tutto presents the experimentation of the most current creative scene, between the most recent acquisitions, the great masters and the younger generations. The exhibition unfolds in different spaces of the museum: Gallery 1, Gallery 3, Videogallery, Archive Wall and the Claudia Gianferrari Room, which houses the restoration site open to the public.

On display in Gallery 1 are Marcello Maloberti ’s light sculpture entitled Without Knowing It, Night Imagined Day, Elisabetta Benassi ’s work La città sale made for Maxxi L’Aquila and Abdoulaye Konaté’s large tapestry Ocean, Mother and Life. Also, MASBEDO ’s video installation Protocol no. 90/6, produced by In Between Art Film for Manifesta 12 in Palermo (2018) and remounted here for the first time thanks to the collaboration of the same Foundation. In the exhibition itinerary, iconic works that have contributed to the success of some of MAXXI’s best-loved exhibitions also alternate with new acquisitions that have never been exhibited before, and works by the great masters of contemporary art dialogue with those of younger generations. Such as Incontri in luoghi straordinari by Giulia Crispiani, winner of the Young Collectors Prize for Quadriennale d’arte 2020, two large canvases by Mario Schifano, Inventario (1973 - 74) and Veduta con segnale animale (1986), the installations Produttivo by Giorgio Andreotta Calò and On the corner where we stand by Patrick Tuttofuoco, accompanied by works by Jannis Kounellis, Fabio Mauri and Michelangelo Pistoletto. Gianfranco Baruchello’s Piccolo Sistema is also on display. Also on display are Where Angels Fear to Tread (2007), the five-pointed star made from police car flashing lights by Kendell Geers, and the suspended piano strings of Rosa Barba’s installation NO - Orchestra with Tape, the result of extensive research at the Archivio Storico Ricordi in Milan. The section is closed by Carola Bonfili ’s work L’Osservatore Nascosto (2022) made with the support of Meta, which thanks to a VR visor allows the visitor to immerse himself in a virtual external body.

Gallery 3, on the other hand, opens with a series of projects by Giorgio Grassi, whose entire archive, on public display for the first time, became part of the Maxxi’s Architecture Collections in 2021, and with photographs from Lisetta Carmi’s I Travestiti series. Then one encounters Greetings from Venice by Elisabetta Di Maggio, a mosaic of more than 100,000 stamps that evokes the floor of St. Mark’s in Venice; the work Mare Vostrum (2017) by Nicolò Degiorgis, winner of the first edition of the Piero Siena Preis Prize; and Disarm (Mechanized) II (2014) by Pedro Reyes, an orchestra of musical instruments made from various components of firearms. It then goes on to the space dedicated to the project Atlante Sapienza: an important photographic commission on the University City of the Capital, realized in collaboration with Sapienza University of Rome, which involved the photographers Iwan Baan, Antonio Biasiucci, Silvia Camporesi, Marina Caneve, and Carlo Valsecchi. This second section concludes with an area entirely dedicated to the new acquisitions of the Architecture Collection, with projects by DEMOGO, Matilde Cassani and Francesca Torzo, the latter the winner of the first edition of the Italian Architecture Prize organized by Maxxi and Triennale Milano.

For more than three months, MAXXI’s Videogallery will accompany the exhibition with a review of video works from the Collection. Leading Italian and international artists, including Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Yuri Ancarani, Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoîne, Cao Fei, and Tomaso De Luca, invite us on a journey of time, from the myths of the past to the great transformations of the present, pointing to a more inclusive, sustainable future, characterized by a new balance between man and nature.

On the occasion of the exhibition, the Sala Claudia Gian Ferrari will host the first event of In Restauro, which will include the restoration of the large work Sternenfall by Anselm Kiefer, curated by faculty and students of the Scuola di Alta Formazione of the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro (ICR) in Rome, followed by the restoration of Rossella Biscotti’s Il processo.

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At MAXXI in Rome, the exhibition chronicling the plurality of Italian and international artistic research

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