event
Tuesday 22 January 2019 6.30 PM - 8.00 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.
other upcoming events
26 Dec 2024 12.00 pm
guided toursThe Large Glass
26 Dec 2024 04.30 pm
MAXXI for familiesForme danzanti
6 Jan 2025 12.00 pm
guided toursGuido GuidiCol tempo, 1956-2024
6 Jan 2025 04.30 pm
MAXXI for familiesOggetti incredibili e come progettarli
14 Jan 2025 06.00 pm
lectureMongolian Buddhist Art and Zanabazarby Geshe Lharampa Javzandorj Dulamragchaa
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for those interested in exploring the present
Graziella Lonardi Buontempo Hall – free entry until full capacity
The first 10 holders of the myMAXXI card to write to mymaxxi@fondazionemaxxi.it will have the possibility to reserve a seat
A dizzying play of mirrors that surprises and wrong-foots readers, never allowing them to feel secure
“Is there a gift of knowing how to live, a special talent for existing in the world, without which any other quality is rendered futile?” And what can you do if you find that you lack that gift?””
Tommaso Pincio
In the prison cell in which he is locked, a man narrates the story of his life. And from the depths of his despair, he interrogates himself about the meaning of knowing how to live, about whether there really is any one with a similar talent. A talent lacked even by Caravaggio, the artist about whom the man is obsessed.
This is the key to the new book by Tommaso Pincio, one of the most original Italian writers of his generation. While this is not a novel about Caravaggio, it is perhaps the most enthusiastic, innovative portrait of the painter ever produced. It is neither a work of fiction nor an autobiographical text. It is a moving attempt to confess the doomed and anti-heroic enterprise living is for all of us.
Introduce
Bartolomeo PietromarchiMAXXI Art Director
Intervengono
Tommaso Pincio author
Andrea Cortellessa literary critic and literary historian