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valid for one year from the date of purchase
minors under 18 years of age; disabled people requiring companion; EU Disability Card holders and accompanying person; MiC employees; European Union tour guides and tour guides, licensed (ref. Circular n.20/2016 DG-Museums); 1 teacher for every 10 students; AMACI members; CIMAM – International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art members; ICOM members; journalists (who can prove their business activity); myMAXXI membership cardholders; European Union students and university researchers in art history and architecture, public fine arts academies (AFAM registered) students and Temple University Rome Campus students from Tuesday to Friday (excluding holidays); IED – Istituto Europeo di Design professors, NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti professors, RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts professors; upon presentation of ID card or badge: Collezione Peggy Guggenheim a Venezia, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Sotheby’s Preferred, MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie; on your birthday presenting an identity document
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.
Mesopotamian Dramaturgies / Dome, 2009
Video installation, variable dimensions, 14’ 40”
Dome is a large-scale ceiling projection referencing the painted ceilings of Catholic churches. Suspended in the sky like modern-day angels, winking young provincial Turks in their everyday clothes exhibit cell phones and other symbols of progress.
View of the installation
Photo: Simone Cecchetti, 2010
Still video
Courtesy: the artist
Video installation, variable dimensions
Inspired by Trajan’s Column in Rome, Column is a work composed of old televisions installed in an ascending spiral alluding to the reliefs following one another on the Roman monument to the imperial victories in Dacia.
However, rather than the victors, Column speaks of the defeated as represented by the citizens of the most remote area of Turkey looking mutely towards the video camera, unable to make their voices heard, to express their stories.
View of the installation
Photo: Simone Cecchetti, 2010
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Dual channel video installation, variable dimensions, 54’ 48” (left) 59’ 10” (right)
In the video, two young Turks read aloud without understanding the nonsense verses of the English poet Edward Lear. The incomprehensibility of the text, difficult to interpret even for a mother tongue English speaker, renders the illusory universality of globalization even more evident.
from English as a Second Language, 2009
Courtesy the artist
Photo: Simone Cecchetti, 2010
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Video projection in wooden box, 150 x 400 x 258 cm, 20’ 15’’
Strange Space is the recording of a performance in which the artist crosses a vast and desolate desert plain barefoot and blindfolded Inspired by Layla and Majnun.
A legend known throughout the Islamic world in which the hero, blinded by love, wanders through the desert in search of his beloved, the work uses the ancient narrative theme as a metaphor for the unresolved relationship between the “archaic” and “modern” worlds, of their reciprocal attraction and the trauma caused by the meeting.
Kutlug Ataman
Still video from Strange Space, 2009
Courtesy the artist