The Museum Collection’s new layout presents a new vision in which an artist or intellectual brings works of art, architecture, and photography together. This is an opportunity for appreciation and research to present the works of great masters and contemporary artists.
For The Large Glass, the curatorship is entrusted to Alex Da Corte, an American conceptual artist who experiments with different media, including painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and video. Exploring the various nuances of contemporary experience, Da Corte reads the MAXXI Collection in an organic sense: “Within the swelling curves of Zaha Hadid’s grand design, we see the classical elements of water, wind, fire, and earth. We see growth, decay, transformation, and nature’s seep through all things […] As the world churns and crusts in alchemy, we take our journey toward an inevitable invisible ether. We may move beyond, with nature as our guide, to a glass age. Here we may exist everywhere, evolving, while leaving no physical trace.”
Featuring works by: Francis Alÿs, Atelier Van Lieshout, AWP and Atelier Oslo, Massimo Bartolini, Alighiero Boetti, Stefano Cerio, DEMOGO, Luigi Ghirri, Domenico Gnoli, Wolf Kahlen, William Kentridge, Rachele Maistrello, Marisa Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Kara Walker, Gal Weinstein.
The Museum Collection’s new layout presents a new vision in which an artist or intellectual brings works of art, architecture, and photography together. This is an opportunity for appreciation and research to present the works of great masters and contemporary artists.
For The Large Glass, the curatorship is entrusted to Alex Da Corte, an American conceptual artist who experiments with different media, including painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and video. Exploring the various nuances of contemporary experience, Da Corte reads the MAXXI Collection in an organic sense: “Within the swelling curves of Zaha Hadid’s grand design, we see the classical elements of water, wind, fire, and earth. We see growth, decay, transformation, and nature’s seep through all things […] As the world churns and crusts in alchemy, we take our journey toward an inevitable invisible ether. We may move beyond, with nature as our guide, to a glass age. Here we may exist everywhere, evolving, while leaving no physical trace.”
Featuring works by: Francis Alÿs, Atelier Van Lieshout, AWP and Atelier Oslo, Massimo Bartolini, Alighiero Boetti, Stefano Cerio, DEMOGO, Luigi Ghirri, Domenico Gnoli, Wolf Kahlen, William Kentridge, Rachele Maistrello, Marisa Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Kara Walker, Gal Weinstein.