Passeggiate Romane, foto © Musacchio, Pasqualini / MUSA, courtesy Fondazione MAXXI
event
Saturday 12 October 2024 11.00 AM - 7.00 PM

20th Italian Contemporary Art Day

Once again, MAXXI is participating in Italian Contemporary Art Day, the major event promoted by AMACI to showcase the vitality of Italian contemporary art.

On the occasion of #GDC20, the museum offers free entry and guided tours of gallery 1, which houses the exhibition Passeggiate Romane, the great voyage through art and the city with set designs by Maestro Dante Ferretti. As part of the accessibility project MAXXIperTUTTI, financed by the European Union—Next Generation EU, the museum also offers a workshop in Italian Sign Language for sign language children and a performance that plays and reflects on the elasticity and subjectivity of time – as part of the No Time for Prophecies project (in the video gallery from 8 to 20 October) and the MAXXI Med initiatives.

programme:

lobby from 11 am to 7 pm
Performing Time by Ivan Moudov – performance

Manually adjusting the hands of an analogue clock without a motor, installed on the wall of the museum lobby, the Bulgarian artist questions his perception of time. Relying solely on his intuition, without the aid of technological devices, the artist measures the passing of the minutes through his inner sense.

galleria 1 at 12 plus 4 pm
Passeggiate Romane – free guided tours in Italian

A selection of works and artefacts, rarely visible to the public, from the deposits of three of Rome’s most important museum institutions: Galleria Borghese, Galleria Nazionale and Musei Capitolini.

duration: 1 hour
booking soon available
rendezvous at the Museum infopoint 10 minutes before the start of the visit

galleria 3 and 4 3 pm
Tana per tutti – workshop in Italian Sign Language for sign language children aged 6 to 10

Let’s discover the Ambienti 1956-2010 exhibition through play becoming animals: cats, rabbits and owls help us focus on the bodily perception of space and the works through sight and touch. The works become our ‘dens’.

duration: 2 hours
booking required by writing to publicengagement@fondazionemaxxi.it
rendezvous at 2.45 pm at the Museum infopoint


The Italian Contemporary Art Day involves museums, foundations, public and private institutions, galleries, studios and artists’ spaces throughout Italy to recount the vitality of contemporary art in our country. The guiding image for this 20th edition is the work Woman in a Cage (1975/2024) by Tomaso Binga (pseudonym of Bianca Pucciarelli Menna, Salerno, 1931).