Expositions
Roma Capitale, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e Centro Storico – Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali and MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma are proud to present the winners of the MACRO 2% competition: “Rope” by Arthur Duff and “Orizzonte Galleggiante” by Nathalie Junod Ponsard.
Exploiting the potential of light – the Competition’s theme – Arthur Duff (Wiesbaden, Germany, 1973) and Nathalie Junod Ponsard (Compiegne, France, 1961) offer the Museum and its visitors two public art installations. With a new approach to space, they transform transit areas into a meeting ground for the public and contemporary art to come together.
On display “Double Carousel with Zöllner Stripes“ by the Belgian artist Carsten Höller, the winning work of the Enel Contemporanea Award 2011, the prize organized by Enel within the Enel Contemporanea project, now in its fifth year, that leads to the production of artworks on the theme of energy by artists of different nations (www.enelcontemporanea.com).
An exhibition dedicated to Steve McCurry, one of the greatest photographers of our century.
MACROwall: Eighties are Back! is a project, curated by Ludovico Pratesi, that involves a review of Italian art in the Eighties in a series of solo exhibitions of artists representing different types of artistic production in the decade.
The sixth and final exhibition of the series features Mario Dellavedova, Daniela De Lorenzo, Massimo Kaufmann, Felice Levini and Marco Tirelli.
For the program Postcard from…, a project conceived by Marcello Smarrelli and promoted by by the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome, a poster by Damien Hirst titled Nucleohistone, taken fom the work of the same name he made in 2008/2011, will be on display at the main entrance of the MACRO in conjunction with the exhibition at the Pastificio.
The work of the Korean artist Minjung Kim is a projection of the imaginary and the imagination. The encounter between East and West in the Minjung Kim's work is played on contamination, exchange, stratification, a "breakthrough" of signs and spots. Signs and spots that go beyond representation and give way to the vitality of the gesture. These are not landscapes, portraits or other items, but paper-ink-brush-combustion assembled all together.
The exhibition, curated by Simona Rossi and Dominique Lora in collaboration with Gao Zhen e Gao Qiang (also known as the Gao Brothers) focuses on the latest trends of Chinese contemporary art scene. A glocal perspective, as Achille Bonito Oliva would define it, where traditions and cultural identity meet towards a transnational creative model.