Sunday 2 October, for residents of Rome it will be possible to enter the Civic Museums for free. The following are part of the Common Museums: Musei Capitolini; Montemartini plant; Trajan's Markets; Ara Pacis Museum; Giovanni Barracco Museum of Ancient Sculpture; Museum of the Walls; Casal de' Pazzi Museum; Villa of Maxentius; Museum of the Roman Republic and Garibaldi memory; Museum of Rome Palazzo Braschi; Napoleonic Museum; Alberto Moravia House Museum; Gallery of Modern Art; MACRO - MACRO Testaccio; Carlo Bilotti Museum; Pietro Canonica Museum; Museum of Rome in Trastevere; Museums of Villa Torlonia; Civic Museum of Zoology.
At the Capitoline Museums La Spina. From the Agro Vaticano to Via della Conciliazione. Materials Ricordi Progetti: a journey back in time to the places that lead to St. Peter's Basilica, recounting its profound transformations from antiquity up to the Jubilee of 1950. In progress La Misericordia nell'arte Jubilee itinerary among the Masterpieces of the great Italian Artists
At Trajan's Markets, a symbol of imperial antiquity, not to be missed MADE in Rome Production and ownership marks in ancient society. At the same time Lapidarium, a monumental intervention of contemporary sculpture, conceived by the Mexican artist Gustavo Aceves, which finds space in the suggestive archaeological area of Rome, in a path that winds from the Arch of Constantine to the Piazza del Colosseo up to Trajan's Markets.
At the Museum of Rome in Palazzo Braschi Antoine Jean-Baptiste Thomas and the people of Rome (1817-1818) collection of graphic and photographic material documenting the history of the city over the centuries and, for the last day, The art of smile. Caricature in Rome from the seventeenth century to 1849.
At the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in via Francesco Crispi, the exhibition Rome in the Thirties continues. The Gallery of Modern Art and the 1931 – 1935 – 1939 Quadrennial d'Arte with works of exceptional importance, in part never exhibited and unknown to the public, acquired by the Governorate in the years of the first Quadrennial. Three rooms of the Gallery host about 50 works including paintings, graphics and documents that illustrate the long activity of the artist Mimì Quilici Buzzacchi, which began in the late 1990s in Ferrara and continued in Rome from the XNUMXs until his death in XNUMX.
In the external space of the Carlo Bilotti Museum, the work Bizhan Bassiri – NOOR Solar Mirror is visible, in which the basic element is light. Inside, Piacere, Ettore Scola is the first monographic exhibition in honor of the great Italian filmmaker, designed and produced (2014) with the endorsement and support of Ettore Scola and created with the participation of his family and his closest collaborators.
At the Casina delle Civette of Villa Torlonia ceramics is the leitmotif of all the works on display by Andrea Viviani (Andrea Viviani. Ritmi instabili), which combine the skill of the hand with artistic vision, giving rise to environmental installations (the Chamber of Nodes, 2016) or suspended floating in space (Meteore in fiore, 2016).
At the Museum of Rome in Trastevere the anthological exhibition of the Roman painter Valeriano Ciai (1928-2013 and the images of the photographer Rodrigo Pais, of essential historical value but also of great artistic value which restore, with a direct and pragmatic style, the deep identity of the city and its suburbs: Living in Rome in the suburbs.Photographs by Rodrigo Pais in the second half of the 900s.
At the Napoleonic Museum Minute visions. Roman micromosaics from the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries from the Ars Antiqua Savelli collection, one of the most important internationally dedicated to this particular artistic genre, the result of over forty years of acquisitions and research.
At the Centrale Montemartini, the permanent exhibition has been enriched with new extraordinary masterpieces that have long been kept in storage. Also to be admired is the precious basanite portrait of the Empress Agrippina Minor on loan from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.
An exhibition project by the artist Antonio Aportone. Transmutations & Transmigrations at the Museo delle Mura: Ciprian Muresan at the Pietro Canonica Museum: the artist's first solo exhibition at an institution in Rome which continues the Fortezzuola exhibition cycle, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto.
Many possibilities, as always, at MACRO in via Nizza with Roma Pop City 60-67; NOTES OF A GENERATION #3 Matteo Basilè – Gioacchino Pontrelli (last day); Signs, Alphabets, Writings. Paths in Contemporary Art through the MACRO Collection (last day); From today to tomorrow. 24 hours in contemporary art (last day); VIDEOCRACY: Bruce Nauman > Cheryl Donegan (last day); WILLIAM KENTRIDGE – Triumphs and Laments: a project for Rome (last day);
At MACRO Testaccio Edgar Honetschläger – LOS FELIZ; Rachel Howard
The exhibition at La Pelanda and the activities of the Inflatable Planetarium at Technotown are not included in the free admissions.
