Zerocalcare's first exhibition is at MAXXI in Rome. November 10, 2018 through March 10, 2019

MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome hosts, from November 10, 2018 to March 10, 2019, the first solo exhibition of the great cartoonist Zerocalcare (real name Michele Rech, Cortona, 1983), entitled Digging ditches, feeding crocodiles. Zerocalcare began by taking, in high school, his activity as a cartoonist, and from a very young age (at the age of 20) he began collaborating with prestigious magazines and newspapers such as Liberazione, Carta and La Repubblica XL. In 2015 he took second place at the Premio Strega Giovani with Dimentica il mio nome, and in 2017 one of his best-known comics, La profezia dell’armadillo, was made into a film released in 2018. The artist, the presentation reads, has “always been linked to the underground scene, spokesperson for the generation of the 1990s, who grew up between precariousness and the web, between the G8 in Genoa and TV series,” and is now one of Italy’s most appreciated comic strip artists.

The MAXXI project, organized around three thematic nuclei(Pop and Tribe, Resistance and Politics, Non-Reportage) traces all the years of Zerocalcare’s work among posters, a wide selection of illustrations, record covers, original plates of his nine books, T-shirts, logos and a site-specific work designed by the artist for the occasion.

Admission fees: 10 euros the exhibition, 15 euros exhibition + museum, 12 euros reduced exhibition + museum (for everyone under 30 years of age, for groups of 15 or more people and discounted categories, registered journalists with a valid ID card, FAI - Fondo Ambiente Italiano cardholders, Bibliocard - Biblioteche di Roma holders, Jewish Museum of Rome ticket holders, La Galleria Nazionale d’Modern and Contemporary Art, Enel employees and one accompanying person, upon presentation of company badge and valid ID, members National Council of Architects, upon presentation of membership card, members Italian Association of Ambassadors of Taste and family members, Pro Loco membership card holders), free for children under 14, differently abled persons who need a companion, companion of the differently abled person, MiBAC employees, companions and tour guides Lazio Region, 1 teacher for every 10 students, ICOM members, AMACI members, accredited journalists, MAXXI membership card holders, students and university researchers of Art and Architecture from Tuesday to Friday (except holidays), on their birthday by presenting an ID.

For more information you can visit the MAXXI website.

Zerocalcare's first exhibition is at MAXXI in Rome. November 10, 2018 through March 10, 2019

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