event
Saturday 1 February 2020 11.30 AM - 1.00 PM
Collection
MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.
Macchina per il caffè.
La Cornuta per La Pavoni, 1948.
Foto Casali.
Courtesy Gio Ponti Archives.
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for those interested in exploring the present
MAXXI auditorium – € 5
carnet for four meetings € 10
10 individual seats free and reserved for myMAXXI cardholders by writing to mymaxxi@fondazionemaxxi.it, by the day before the event
Four meetings to know Ponti’s multi-faceted activities, which include architecture, design, teaching, publishing, decoration, and scenography.
The programme intends to flank the exhibition in introducing and bringing the audience closer to Ponti’s multi-faceted activities: architecture and design, teaching and publishing, decoration and scenography; a legacy that has no equal in terms of versatility, flair, and commitment. A five-lesson long path designed to outline the professional profile of a person who actively participated in the re-birth of post-war Italian design.
Gio Ponti and design. A direction for design
with Domitilla Dardi
Design is one of the disciplines on which Ponti has expressed himself the most, not only as a designer but also in the strategic role of art director. His relation with companies was often that of a director who guided their destinies by merging his skills as a designer with the company’s vision. The figure of a creative intellectual, a creator of identities, and attentive connoisseur devoid of preconceptions emerges; in other words, a contemporary art director.
Domitilla Dardi is a historian and curator of design. Since 2010 she has been the design curator for MAXXI Architettura in Rome. She is also a professor of the three-year courses and Masters at the IED – European Institute of Design in Rome.