The suggestions of the Eternal City continue throughout the summer season, an intellectual journey that ranges from archeology to painting, from sculpture to photography, up to science. The scheduled events, which unfold from 29 July until 29 September, are illustrated below.
SECRET ROME
Until 29 September 2013
Numerous places are involved in the initiative: from the artificial hill of Monte Testaccio, to the Insula Romana under Palazzo Specchi, to the Sepulcher of the Scipios, to the Mecenate Auditorium. And again, from the Mausoleum of Monte del Grano to the Mausoleum of Lucilius Petus, the Mithraeum of the Altar of Hercules, the Virgin Aqueduct, the Ludus Magnus, the Columbarium of Pomponio Hylas and the Porta Asinaria.
Saturday 27 July at 17 Monte Testaccio, the "Grotte" and the Porticus Aemilia
Via Zabaglia, 24 / corner of Via Galvani
It is an artificial hill formed by the fragments (Latin: testae) of the amphorae that passed through the nearby river port. It bears witness to the intense commercial activity of Rome in the imperial era.
July 28 at 17.00 Sepulcher of the Scipios
Via di Porta San Sebastiano, 9
On the ancient Appian Way, not far from Porta San Sebastiano, is the sepulcher of the Scipio family, whose construction dates back to the beginning of the XNUMXrd century BC. In the area there are also other structures, including a valuable columbarium, dating from beginning of the XNUMXst century AD up to the Late Antiquity.
28 July at 10 Roman Insula - Under Palazzo “Specchi"
Via di San Paolo alla Regola, 16
A journey back through the gate of time to discover an archaeological cross-section in the heart of Rome. We will descend to 8 meters below street level to visit numerous rooms, insulae and warehouses, spread over two floors. Here it may happen to meet a young woman who could start talking and tell that… .
Dates communicated at the time of booking Ludus Magnus
Via Labicana, at the corner with Piazza del Colosseo. The Ludus Magnus was one of the four gladiator barracks built to serve the Flavian Amphitheater. The brick building originally consisted of three floors. In the center of the courtyard was a small training arena. Guided tours and guided tours with gladiator training
MACRO
SAM DURANT. The same story
Until 1 September 2013
First solo exhibition in an Italian public institution by Sam Durant, an American artist active in Los Angeles and one of the most significant protagonists of the international contemporary art scene.
NAGASAWA. GREEN SHADOW
Until 15 September 2013
Personal exhibition of Hidetoshi Nagasawa, to celebrate the long career of the Japanese artist, born in Manchuria in 1940 and permanently in Italy since 1967.
PORTRAIT OF A CITY #2. ART IN ROME 1960 – 2001
Until 15 September 2013
Second appointment of the project aimed at deepening the history of contemporary art in Rome from 1960 to 2001. The project, designed to rethink the function of the Museum and its collection - with the direct involvement of artists and those who, for various reasons , are the protagonists of contemporary art in the city – enter a new phase. In addition to a different set-up and a selection of new works, there will be debates, conferences, workshops and exhibitions dedicated to the study and in-depth study of four decades of the more recent history of art in Rome.
JI DACHUN. The forgotten wishes and the clouds that accompany them
Until 22 September 2013
First personal exhibition in an Italian public institution of Ji Dachun (1968), Chinese artist born in Nantong and active in Beijing.
WRITING PAINTING DRAWING LANGUAGE. GASTONE NOVELLI. Works on paper
Until 22 September 2013
The exhibition pays homage to one of the major protagonists of post-war Italian art. The exhibition revolves around one of the masterpieces of Gastone Novelli (Vienna 1925 – Milan 1968) – the large canvas Il re del sole (1961) – and brings together a nucleus of over thirty works on paper, dated between 1957 and 1968, many of which have never been exhibited until today.
TESTACCIO MACRO
STERLING RUBY. SOFTWORK
Until 15 September 2013
First solo exhibition in Rome of Sterling Ruby – whose research ranges between sculpture, painting, drawing, photography and video – active in Los Angeles and internationally recognized as one of the most significant and original artists of recent years.
EXTRA LARGE
Until 22 September 2013
The exhibition offers an itinerary with works from important Italian collections and is designed to guide the viewer in contemporary art issues through works capable of involving the public also due to their extra large dimension.
ENEL CONTEMPORARY 2012. BIG BAMBÚ
Until 29 December 2013
Great work created by US artists Mike and Doug Starn for the sixth edition of Enel Contemporanea, a public art program curated by Francesco Bonami aimed at reflecting on energy through art.
AUDITORIUM FOYER
FIVEHORIZONS. The First International Pearl Jam Photo Exhibition
Until 30 July 2013
FIVEHORIZONS is a Pearl Jam retrospective photographic exhibition, authorized and promoted by the Seattle band, the first ever made in the world, on the history and evolution of the group. The exhibition presents a series of 70 photographs taken by great photographers who have followed and narrated the band from the beginning to the present day, from the first shots of the 90s by Lance Mercer and Charles Peterson, up to the very recent portraits of Steve Gullick and Danny Clinch.
AUDITORIUMARTE
“1970-1976 THE WAVE OF ROCK COMES FROM THE RADIO”
photo di CHARLES MASSARINI
Until 30 July 2013
22 photographs by Carlo Massarini and an unpublished press review from the 70s, curated by Franco Brizi and Francesco Coniglio, to recall an era in which everything was possible, in which artists competed to go beyond the known limits, in which just two music programs – Per Voi “Giovani e Popoff” – were the only window into a world in which music was unlike anything heard before, and was an integral part of youth culture. Years in which rock underwent a thousand mutations, prog, the west coast and the phenomenon of songwriters exploded, in which the hair was long and the ideas many. Years in which accessibility to rock stars – Italian and foreign, on stage and behind – was natural, and not impossible, before musical craftsmanship transformed into a song industry.
EXPO AUDITORIUM
LIFE extension. THE GREAT PHOTOGRAPHERS
Until August 4 2013
“Life. The Great Photographers" is an unpublished retrospective on the authors and images that have made "Life" a myth and a reference in international photography. For a good part of the 1936th century, the photographers of "Life" told every aspect of human life with their images. Published for the first time in 150 and then on a weekly basis until the XNUMXs, the magazine was created by Henry Luce to look precisely in photojournalism, in the privileged eyes of photographers, for the images of the new century to show to readers. The Thirties of the Depression, the Forties, the Second World War, the difficult post-war period, Vietnam: "Life" recounted the twentieth century and imposed a line, indicated a particular way of looking at and therefore of thinking about current events. A set of around XNUMX of the most famous photographs will tell the story of the birth, evolution and stabilization of a vision that has become decisive: the world in the manner of "Life".
CIVIC MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY
IMAGES FROM PLANET EARTH
Until 1 September 2013
At the Museum of Zoology a photographic journey through the nature of the five continents. Deserts of the American Southwest, immense African plains, frozen expanses of Alaska and vast swamps of Florida: these are some of the spectacular images collected by Simone Sbaraglia, master of nature photography, who exhibits his masterpieces in the exhibition "Images from Planet Earth".
TRAJAN'S MARKETS
TRIP – TRAVEL ROUTES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Until 8 September 2013
Photo Exhibition by Simon Norfolk, Elaine Ling, Giancarlo Ceraudo, Cristina De Middel. Edited by Arianna Rinaldo. Four different journeys, four different ways and styles of perceiving and interpreting photography "on the road": from the ruins of war-torn Afghanistan, in the XNUMXth century as in the XNUMXs, to the memory of Zambia's surreal project to conquer space by emulating the superpowers USA/USSR, passing through the rarefied atmospheres of an unusual “black and white” Cuba up to the reassuring profile of the age-old baobabs in Africa.
CARLO BILOTTI MUSEUM
FRANCO MULAS. S-LANDSCAPES. Works from 1980 to 2013
Until 8 September 2013
Franco Mulas' S-landscapes, exhibited at the Carlo Bilotti Museum, represent the last stage in the long and restless search of an artist, a faithful witness of his time.
With a title that expressly refers to the meaning of the words "landscape" and "disorientation", the exhibition consists of forty-five large and medium-sized oils on wood, bearing witness to the gaze on the world and the artistic practice of a "very modern painter at the 'ancient".
JUSTIN PEYSER
Until 8 September 2013
The exhibition exhibits sculptures conceived as evidence of the ruins of our swirling civilization. An echo of what we have heard and seen, what ultimately concretely remains of our experiences and our technological prostheses. The works are made of sheet metal and are held together by thick welds left rough, with the burn of the flame visible.
INNOCENZO ODESCALCHI. Before geographers. Installation and painting
From 17 July to 8 September 2013
The exhibition stems from the artist's desire to represent an ideal journey within the dynamics of artistic making.
MUSEUM OF THE WALLS
VITTORIO MESSINA. Paths of the West
Until 8 September 2013
Vittorio Messina presents three large installations that cancel the historical value of the Porta to transform it into another space, open on the roofs of the city of Rome. An exhibition itinerary that connects the two side towers through a redefinition of the visual and physical perception of the viewer, who experiences a highly suggestive situation of ambiguity, distorting the identity of the building.
PIETRO CANONICA MUSEUM
ALTHOUGH. WORKS BY CORNELIA STAUFFER
Until 8 September 2013
Cornelia Stauffer's exhibition traces the memory of the artist's Swiss childhood years, the walks she took in the woods with her grandfather. The frugal eye, given perhaps by a culture that in sobriety and thrift conceives the responsibility of the individual in the society entrusted to him, in Stauffer becomes integrity - moral and artistic - in the steep and sure stroke of the drawings on the hourglasses, in exhibition at the Canonica Museum.
HOUSE OF CINEMA
WOMEN IN LIGHT
Until 12 September 2013
Photographer Riccardo Ghilardi discovered by chance an abandoned space, once the headquarters of the Istituto Luce and then devastated by a fire, and decided to give new life to the characters immersed in the burnt films involving over 30 Italian actresses who gave a part of himself and his own imagination to the chosen character. The following participated in the project: Ambra Angiolini, Maria Chiara Augenti, Alessia Barela, Myriam Catania, Giada Colucci, Paola Cortellesi, Eugenia Costantini, Carolina Crescentini, Isabella Ferrari, Francesca Figus, Donatella Finocchiaro, Iaia Forte, Marta Gastini, Claudia Gerini, Nicole Grimaudo , Sabrina Impacciatore, Francesca Inaudi, Valentina Lodovini, Giulia Michelini, Paola Minaccioni, Laura Morante, Ornella Muti, Desire Noferini, Elena Radonicich, Eva Riccobono, Stefania Rocca, Marina Rocco, Nicoletta Romanoff, Lunetta Savino, Valeria Solarino, Federica Vincenti, Daniela Virgil, Giorgia Wurth.
SANTA RITA ROOM
NOT PASSENGERS, JUST CREW! INSTALLATION BY MASSIMO CATALANI
Until 13 September 2013
A picto-anthropological installation that investigates the relationship between Natural and Cultural.
Fifteen people painted in real size to capture their identity through posture, the "natural" and "cultural" way of being.
ARA PACIS MUSEUM
GENESIS. Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Until 15 September 2013
A photographic journey across five continents to document, with captivating black and white images, the rare beauty of our main, unique and precious heritage: our planet. The exhibition brings together over 200 images and takes place simultaneously with other major capitals (London, Rio De Janeiro and Toronto). From these cities it will continue its journey through other stages that will lead it to reach all the major cities of the world.
ROME MUSEUM
COMMON PLACES. English landscape painters in Rome between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries in the graphic works of the Museum of Rome
Until 15 September 2013
Seventy watercolors and engravings tell the story of Rome from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. The exhibition, which continues the path begun in 2012 with the exhibition dedicated to French landscape painters, presents a selection of about seventy specimens from the numerous collection of graphic works of the Museum of Rome.
MODERN ART GALLERY OF ROME CAPITAL
HOMAGE TO MARCELLO AVENALI 1912-1981
Until 15 September 2013
Roma Capitale is dedicating an exhibition on the third floor of the museum to the figure of Marcello Avenali, the Roman artist of the 900s who made the capital the center of his long career, showcasing the three paintings donated in 2012 by the Marcello Avenali Archive to the Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Roma Capitale: "Portrait of Anna" (1933), oil on panel and image of absorbed inner contemplation that refers to the artistic culture of the twentieth century; “Villa Borghese"(1938), a Roman view of intense lyrical and expressive tension which denotes the artist's subsequent adherence to the Roman School; “Angelina” (1953), oil on canvas which introduces a profound renewal of his expressive language.
LINKS AND CORRESPONDENCES. Images and words through the Roman '900
Until 29 September 2013
The works of the Modern Art Gallery of Rome become the ideal tool for a re-reading of the very close correspondences between figurative arts, literature and poetry which in Rome, from the end of the XNUMXth century to the XNUMXs, saw artists and writers work together in a continuous exchange of suggestions.
CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS CENTRAL MONTEMARTINI
OIL BY XAVIER BUENO
Until 29 September 2013
The exhibition reveals the unpublished work and an extremely refined painter, little known to the public of the great art exhibitions.
NAPOLEONIC MUSEUM
FELICE GIANI 1813. Views of Villa Aldini in Montmorency
Until 29 September 2013
A nucleus of 8 large-scale drawings of significant stylistic quality, made by Felice Giani between 1812 and 1813 during his visit to Montmorency, exhibited to the public for the first time at the Napoleonic Museum.
MUSEUMS OF VILLA TORLONIA
ALFREDO BIAGINI. DÉCO SCULPTURES AND CERAMICS
Casino of the Princes
Until November 3 2013
The exhibition brings to the attention of the public and critics the figure and work of an artist who between 1910 and 1952 was active on various fronts, sculpture, embossing, decoration in architecture and ceramics, gaining consensus, success and participation in the most important Italian and foreign artistic events.
EZIA DI LABIO LIUTIE – MASTER VIOLIN 21 Authors for 23 Works of Lutherie
Casino delle Civette
Until 29 September 2013
On display in the Casina delle Civette and in the annexed Dependence, 23 violins handcrafted in Ezia Di Labio's Bolognese workshop, painted by 21 established artists in the most diverse disciplines.
MUSEUM OF ROME IN TRASTEVERE
ROME CROSSES THE TIBER. Rome was born from the Tiber, and the Tiber makes it modern
Until October 6 2013
At the center of the exhibition is the role of the river in the millennial construction of the city and above all in its modernization. A deep bond between Rome and the Tiber. A bond that was born with the creation of the small village at the foot of the Palatine and that grows over time thanks to events, landscapes, epic life and everyday life.
THE FACES, THE STONES, THE CITY: Mario Carbone, Emilio Gentilini 1952 – 1985, photographs from the collection of the Museum of Rome in Trastevere
Until October 13 2013
On display are over 100 photographs from the collection of the Museum of Rome in Trastevere and from the private collection of the Carbone archive, currently being acquired by the Museum, thanks to the photographer's generous donation. Some of the images on display, taken between 1952 and 1985, have never been exhibited to the public.
CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS
ARCHIMEDES – ART AND SCIENCE OF INVENTION
Until January 12 2014
An exhibition on the figure of Archimedes, genius of the XNUMXrd century BC The exhibition reveals the many aspects of the brilliant Syracusan scientist illustrating the extraordinary contribution that his investigations and inventions have given to the knowledge of the ancient world and of the centuries to come.
Attachments: ARTE PROGRAM 26-29.doc
