Il Maxxi opens the fall season with two new exhibitions. 17 October 2019 the exhibition dedicated to Enzo Cucchi in Gian Ferrari Room, open to the public until 26 January 2020 and the exposure “Of the spiritual matter of art” which will incorporate the work of no less than 19 artists, expiring on8 March 2020.
Enzo Cucchi is one of the most influential figures on the contemporary art scene. Cucchi summarizes individual myths and collective imagination through an aesthetic that ranges between time and history.
Just a work will be on display: a putto, to whose big toe a scorpion appears clinging and hands to the eyes in the gesture of the telescope to focus the vision. It is a reinterpretation, ranging from Roman statuary to large Baroque frescoes, of a naked child.
In the putto, art and myth, science and astrology are fused: while playing he risks being bitten by the poisonous animal, which according to Greek mythology had killed the hunter Orion. For this very reason, it Scorpio it is a symbol of the unknown and of death.
“Of the spiritual matter of art” instead, it is a project that analyzes the theme of the spiritual through the gaze of contemporary art and the archaic history of Rome. Works will be exhibited nineteen artists, from different cultures and backgrounds: John Armleder, Matilde Cassani, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Elisabetta di Maggio, Jimmie Durham, Paris Epaminonda, Hassan Khan, Kimsooja, Abdoulaye Konaté, Victor Man, Shirin Neshat, Yoko Ono, Michal Rovner, Remo Salvadori, Tomas Saraceno, Sean Scully, Jeremy Shaw and Namsal Siedlecki.
The exhibition brings together works of contemporary art with a selection of archaeological finds coming from the principals museums of the capital: the Vatican Museums, the National Roman Museum, the Capitoline Museums and the National Etruscan Museum of Valle Giulia.
