Expositions
For this his first individual show in an European museum, Avish Khebrehzadeh has selected a series of previously unseen works: two video animations that are projected on to large pictures done in ink and pencil on Japanese kozo paper that has been treated with resin and olive oil and a few oil paintings done on wooden plaster boards.
An anthology dedicated to Giuseppe Gallo, a member of the New Roman School. The exhibition is just one of a series featuring Roman artists, specifically those who were part of the San Lorenzo group and follows on from earlier displays that featured Nunzio, Gianni Dessì and Piero Pizzi Cannella respectively.
The title for this exhibition was inspired by the title and the thought provoking content of Boccioni’s 1910 futuristic painting and the display route has been designed as an exploration into the nature of construction, its materialism, the immediate impact and illusion created by buildings visually and symbolically, but also how they represent the desire to achieve Utopia.
After Pedro Cabrita Reis’ exhibition for MACRO HALL now is the moment of the Van Lieshout Atelier with Technocrat, a site specific installation: a huge machine which recycles organic material. The Van Lieshout Atelier, a multidisciplinary group founded in 1995 by Joep van Lieshout, works at an international level in the field of contemporary art, design and architecture.
Their aim is to surpass the barriers characteristic of the visual arts, and which have often coerced them. Contradicting the myth of the single inspired creator, the members of the workshop work together as a creative team in continuous interdisciplinary collaboration in architecture, painting, sculpture and design.
Approximately forty works from Ghada Amer’s new exhibition (Cairo 1963) are on display at MACRO.
Paintings on canvas and drawings on paper as well as installations characterised by embroidery with coloured threads, a favourite stylistic trait of the Egyptian artist, who has always used the needle and thread as artistic tools. A selection of works covering twenty years of an artistic career, divided into four main themes: reflections on words and writing, works inspired by the female condition, eroticism, and drawing explored from various angles.
In MACRO’s Nothing from Nothing exhibition, Paolo Canevari presents a new series of works made up of drawings on large size paper, video projections, and a sculptural installation.
They are a collection of works based for the most part on political and environmental themes, the result of the most recent developments in the artist’s research.