MAXXI Rome's photographic collection will be exhibited in India

MAXXI brings its photography collection to India on the occasion of the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Italy and India and the 24th edition of the Technology Summit in which Italy is the host country

From Luigi Ghirri’s metaphysical visions to Massimo Vitali’s crowded beaches, from Franco Fontana’s color-saturated landscapes to Letizia Battaglia’s painful tale of an abandoned land, from Gabriele Basilico’s elegant and essential architectural visions to Walter Niedermayr’s mountains: all this and more is EXTRAORDINARY VISIONS. ITALY, a portrait of Italy composed by the gazes of so many masters of Italian photography, an exhibition curated by Margherita Guccione and Simona Antonacci, promoted by the Ministry of Economic Development and with the fundamental contribution of Simest Società Italiana per le Imprese all’Estero. With its 20 internationally prominent authors and more than 100 photographs on display, it is a re-edition of the previous exhibition Extraordinary Visions. Italy Looks at Us, presented at MAXXI in June 2016, and represents a new stage in the diplomacy of art and culture promoted by the museum.
The works on display, all from MAXXI’s Permanent Collection, recount the cultural transformations in which Italy has been a protagonist in the most recent decades. EXTRAORDINARY VISIONS. ITALY is not an illustrated history of Italy, nor a chronological and descriptive account, but a reflection on the appearance and substance of contemporary Italy, which seeks to capture its most current dimension, far from a stereotypical idea of Belpaese. The exhibition proposes a journey through three thematic paths: CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPES; RES PUBLICA; CITY, WORK; and ART AND CULTURE, each conceived as a visual discourse in its own right, as a “framing” that proposes intersecting or divergent points of view, to compose a poetic and at the same time documentary, social and institutional “atlas” of Italy in the last thirty years.

The artists in the exhibition: Iwan Baan, Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Letizia Battaglia, Jordi Bernadò, Alighiero Boetti, Andrea Botto, Silvia Camporesi, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Mario Cresci, Franco Fontana, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Luigi Ghirri, Guido Guidi, Giuseppe Leone, Ugo Mulas, Walter Niedermayr, Massimo Piersanti, Fabio Ponzio, Massimo Vitali. The exhibition will be held from October 30, 2018 to January 13, 2019 at theItalian Cultural Institute New Delhi-India.
For all information you can visit MAXXI’s official website.

Pictured: Landscape, Sicily (2007) by Franco Fontana

MAXXI Rome's photographic collection will be exhibited in India

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