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.”
Featuring works by: Francis Alÿs, Atelier Van Lieshout, Massimo Bartolini, Alighiero Boetti, Domenico Gnoli, Wolf Kahlen, William Kentridge, Marisa Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Kara Walker, Gal Weinstein, AWP, DEMOGO, Stefano Cerio, Luigi Ghirri, Rachele Maistrello.
The waves covered her face,
and I could not move quickly enough to stop them.
And yet it happened so slowly,
like glass cooling.
And years later I wondered if she thought the same of me,
like sand, like salt.
“The Large Glass presents a slow rising tide inspired by Luigi Ghirri’s haunting 1978 photo depicting a woman’s face under glass, or glaze, or water, or nothing […] 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.” Alex Da Corte.
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.”
Featuring works by: Francis Alÿs, Atelier Van Lieshout, Massimo Bartolini, Alighiero Boetti, Domenico Gnoli, Wolf Kahlen, William Kentridge, Marisa Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Kara Walker, Gal Weinstein, AWP, DEMOGO, Stefano Cerio, Luigi Ghirri, Rachele Maistrello.
The waves covered her face,
and I could not move quickly enough to stop them.
And yet it happened so slowly,
like glass cooling.
And years later I wondered if she thought the same of me,
like sand, like salt.
“The Large Glass presents a slow rising tide inspired by Luigi Ghirri’s haunting 1978 photo depicting a woman’s face under glass, or glaze, or water, or nothing […] 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.” Alex Da Corte.