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.
MARINELLA SENATORE
Her artistic research involves the active participation of the audience in the creative process as well as the use of a variety of media, from installation to video, drawing, performance and photography. Exhibitions of her work include: 54th Venice Biennale, Göteborg Biennial, Contour-Biennial, Liverpool Biennial, 12th Bienal de Cuenca, 4th Athens Biennale (2011), 11th Biennial de la Havana (2012), Petach-Tikva Museum of Art (2014), MCA Chicago (2009), Castello di Rivoli (2013), Kunst Halle S. Gallen (2014), MCA Santa Barbara (2014). She has won the following awards: Dena Foundation Fellowship (2009), New York Prize (2010), American Academy in Rome Fellowship (2012). In 2013 she was awarded the Borsa Giovani Artisti Italiani, Castello di Rivoli, and in 2014 she was a finalist in the Premio MAXXI, and artist-in-residence at “Museo Chiama Artista”| AMACI.
YURI ANCARANI
Videoartist and filmaker, he lives and works between Ravenna and Milan. His works are the result of a continuous fusion of art and documentary films often with a narrative that explores places that are not normally that visible, exploring some of the key issues of our contemporary world which have not yet been analysed.
Yuri Ancarani’s works were presented at numerous exhibitions museums both in Italy and abroad, including: T.I.C.A. Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art (Tirana, Albania, 2009), Prague Biennale 5 (Prague, Poland, 2011), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, USA, 2012), 14 Media Art Biennale Wro (Wroklav, Poland, 2011), Galleria ZERO… (Milan, 2012), 55th International Art Exhibition, The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice Biennale (Venice, 2013), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, 2013), Galleria Isabella Bortolozzi (Berlin, 2013).
MICOL ASSAEL
Considered to be one of the most interesting voices on the Italian and international art scene, she has always been interested in the study of physical phenomena, and in the world of music, science and philosophy, examined by constructing complex systems designed to pick out those aspects of reality that cannot be controlled, such as electricity, the behaviour of bees and volcanic eruptions.
Her works have been presented on the occasion of the solo shows: La Folie de la Villa Medicis, Villa Medici, Accademia di Francia, Rome (2002); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2004); Inaudito, GNAM, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy (2008); Chizhevsky Lessons, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, (2007); Fomuska, Secession, Vienna (2009); Museion, Bolzano, Italy (2010);ILIOKATAKINIOMUMASTILOPSARODIMAKOPIOTITA, HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy (2014). She has also participated in the Venice Biennale (2003 and 2005), Manifesta (2004), the Moscow Biennale (2005), Berlin Biennale (2006), in After Nature, New Museum, New York (2008), and in Chasing Napoleon (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2009).
LINDA FREGNI NAGLER
She studies the nature of photography investigating its particular qualities, analysing time and creating new imaginaries. After receiving a diploma from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in 2000, in 2004 she participated in the Corso Superiore di Arti Visive of the Fondazione Ratti (Como). In 2006 she was awarded a diploma in Cinema Photography by the Escuela International de Cine y Television (EICTV), in Cuba. In 2013 she was invited to show her work at the 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, The Encyclopedic Palace, curated by Massimiliano Gioni. She has shown her works at solo exhibitions held at the Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan (2011), Columbia University, NY (2007), Fondazione Olivetti, Rome (2006). She has participated in the following group shows: LE SILENCE–Une fiction, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (2012); SI – Sindrome Italiana, la jeune création artistique italienne, MAGASIN-Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble (2010). In 2007 she won the Premio New York, awarded jointly by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Columbia University.
The names of the candidates were suggested by curators, journalists, independent Italian critics or those working for major national and international institutions:
Barbara Casavecchia, critic and independent curator, Contributing Editor Frieze Magazine and curator of All’Aperto-Fondazione Zegna suggested the name of Linda Fregni Nagler
Luca Lo Pinto, Curator of Kunsthalle Wien and Editorial Director of NERO suggested Micol Assaël
Luigi Fassi, Writer for Mousse, Artforum, Klat and Site, has nominated Yuri Ancarani
Marcella Beccaria, Chief Curator, Castello di Rivoli and Emanuele Guidi Artistic Director ar/ge Kunst Galerie, Bolzano put forward the name of Marinella Senatore.
Yuri Ancarani, San Siro, 2014
The film by Yuri Ancarani is a reading of the world of football as poetic as it is savage celebrating the legend of this sport, revealing its hidden side and turning the time it takes to play the game into a reflection on the spectacularization of the game itself.
Shot at the San Siro in 2014, it presents football from a different angle, showing how this world is both popular and, at the same time, unknown.
The installation by Micol Assaël suggests a reflection on the theme of physical space and its connections with that of the unconscious.
Shown for the first time at Galleria Studio 34, Salerno, and presented in a revised version at the MAXXI Prize, it is a room furnished with a bed, small glass beads that interact by refraction with the ambient light, sanitaryware filled with water and suspended at eye level, and a high-voltage generator at the centre of the room. The room is brought to life by the irregular falling of water droplets from the ceramic units. These act as a counterpoint to the background noise of the generator, which in turn produces a low-amperage electric arc at regular intervals.
Coming out of the room, we have the impression that we have conversed with invisible force fields that invade the space, intercepting our sensory perceptions and inhabiting the atmosphere around us.
Linda Fregni Nagler shows a group of three sculptures and a selection of fifteen photographs portraying figures about to jump, or precariously suspended. This theme is a reflection on time, on suspension, on the condition of absolute uncertainty that the image itself creates: it reveals nothing about what happened before or what happened after the moment the picture was taken. The photographs are re-photographed and enlarged in the darkroom. This process has revealed frequent manual retouching on the surface of the photographs, made by the newspaper editors to improve the contrast and to make the pictures clearer when printed. The work is completed by three suspended sculptural elements, assembled from photographs of model propellers for aerostats. Nadar, the French photographer and balloonist, who in 1858 took the first aerial photographs in history, photographed the models in his studio without any reference to the scale of the objects.
The artist Marinella Senatore presents a free, travelling school of storytelling based on horizontal educational systems that bring about processes of emancipation and selflearning, where anyone can teach or be a student.In this work Marinella Senatore reflects on the concept of the work of art as a participatory form of expression that can change the appearance of the area and society it is in. The experiences of the lessons will then flow into a theater-dance performance directed by the choreographers of the Berlin group ESPZ
28 maggio – 21 settembre 2014
Galleria 5, Corner D, Piazza, Corpo scale
The PREMIO MAXXI, founded to support the growth of the young generation of Italian artists, has now reached its third edition. After the past two editions, won by Rossella Biscotti in 2010 and Giorgio Andreotta Calò in 2012, this year the prize goes to Marinella Senatore, whose work – The School of Narrative Dance, Rome -, together with Micol Assaël, Linda Fregni Nagler and Yuri Ancarani’s ones, invades all the spaces of the museum involving the scenographic Galleria 5, Corner D, the piazza, the staircases, blending in with the flowing patterns of the space designed by Zaha Hadid.
Football from a new and revolutionary point of view,
a physical space that becomes a mental one, the thrill of suspension in the void,
a nomadic school where you can also learn to draw.
The exhibition, curated by Giulia Ferracci, moves about in MAXXI’s spaces starting from the exterior with Natura dell’emozione (2001 – 2014) by Micol Assaël continuing on MAXXI’s piazza and along its staircases the exhibition route continues with The School Of Narrative Dance, Roma (2014) by Marinella Senatore. The exhibition ends in Galleria 5: Linda Fregni Nagler shows Per comandare all’aria (2014) while it take places San Siro (2014), the movie by Yuri Ancarani.
The exhibition is completed by a story area: a series of exhibited materials lay bare the inspirations and paths that led the artists to produce their works.
Based on these works the jury chose the winner of this third edition: Marinella Senatore and the work The School Of Narrative Dance, Rome will become part of MAXXI’s permanent collection. A monographic publication will be dedicated to the winning artist, including interviews and essays as well as an anthology of the most significant critical essays to have been written about him or her. The dual-language (Italian-English) publication will be distributed internationally.
The winner has been announced on June 13, when the jury met to evaluate all the projects.
Winner
Finalists
Works: San Siro
Works: Natura dell’Emozione
Works: Per Comandare l’Aria
Works: The School of Narrative Dance
Cataloghi della mostra
Monograph 2016
Marinella Senatore. The School of Narrative Dance, Rome