On the occasion of the exhibition “GRAVITY. Imagining the Universe after Einstein”, the MAXXI museum in Rome will host on April 10 two women who have dedicated their lives to the discovery of space: the astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and Amalia Ercoli Finzi, an expert in aerospace engineering.
After her 200 days on the International Space Station (ISS), in orbit about 400 kilometers away from planet Earth, Samantha Cristoforetti will meet the MAXXI public to retrace the salient phases of the mission. As mentioned, Amalia Ercoli Finzi will also be with her, one of the protagonists of the Rosetta mission, the space probe hunting for news in space, scientific consultant of NASA, ASI (Italian Space Agency) and ESA (European Space Agency ), the first woman in Italy to graduate from the Politecnico di Milano in aerospace engineering.
The debate between the two guests will be opened by Giovanna Melandri, President of the MAXXI Foundation, and moderated by Andrea Zanini of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), co-curator of the exhibition hosted by the Roman museum in collaboration with the main sponsor Enel. .
The meeting will also take place in LIS thanks to the support of the State Institute for the Deaf in Rome and will be broadcast in live streaming on jackarts.tv/ and on a big screen in the museum lobby.
The exhibition “GRAVITY. Imagining the Universe after Einstein” is enjoying great public success and in 4 months it was visited by about 90 people. Given the turnout, it was extended until May 6, 2018.
The cycle of meetings on science, philosophy and art at MAXXI opened with Fabiola Gianotti, director general of CERN, and then hosted other bilateral meetings focused on the relationship between science and issues of public interest, such as the cooking show among the starry cook Christina Bowerman and and the president of the Institute of Nuclear Physics Ferdinando Ferroni, or the meeting “Science and Religion: Fragments of Truth” in which they took part Roberto Battiston, physicist and President of the Italian Space Agency, and the Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture.
Next and last appointment of the exhibition scheduled for Friday 27 April with the artist Laurent Grasso (whose work The Horn Perspective, reconstruction of the skeleton of the Penzias and Wilson radio telescope which picked up the fossil sound of the Big Bang in the early 60s, is exhibited in the exhibition) and the British neurobiologist Semir Zeki, defined as the father of neuroaesthetics, the neuroscience approach that explores the way in which areas of the brain are activated in front of a work of art.
