Introduced the new artistic director of the MACRO in Rome, Giorgio De Finis

The new artistic director of MACRO, Rome’s Museum of Contemporary Art, has been appointed: he is anthropologist Giorgio De Finis and was presented at a press conference in Rome on Dec. 21. Starting in January, MACRO will be part of a new Pole of the Contemporary and Future promoted by the Cultural Growth Department of Roma Capitale: “the aim of the Pole,” reads a statement released by the Capitoline administration, “will be to stimulate the exploration of new present and future frontiers with a profound relationship with the system of the Libraries of Rome, as garrisons spread throughout the city. LAzienda Speciale Palaexpo - which will soon have a new governance after the closing of the public notice for the new Board - therefore starts again in 2018 with a new role and a new commitment.”

The new course of director Giorgio De Finis will begin in October with the experimental project “MACRO Asilo,” which he strongly wanted: it will be, the statement goes on to say, “a large dincontro device with and for the city, welcoming, immersed in its territory open and permeable to anyone who does artistic practice.” The new “MACRO Asilo,” located in the premises on Via Nizza, will be configured as a “relational space” designed to rethink the encounter between artists and the city. A “new device that reinvents the museum as a reality of cultural production and transformation beyond the exhibition dimension.” There is therefore much curiosity around Giorgio De Finis’ project.

The new director, besides being an anthropologist, is also an artist, independent curator, and filmmaker (he has worked for Rai and Sky). De Finis is also director and creator of the Museum of the Other and the Elsewhere Metropoliz (Maam). His photographic works and videos have been presented at the International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, the Milan Triennale, the Athens Biennale, the Rotterdam Biennale, and the Shanghai Expo in 2010. He also collaborates with the Pistoletto Foundation and with cultural pages of magazines and periodicals.

Introduced the new artistic director of the MACRO in Rome, Giorgio De Finis

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