MAXXI (and MACRO) opening: too much is never enough
There were over 75,000 visitors, in four days, to
the two new museums in Rome: the MAXXI by Zaha Hadid (inaugurated with
four major exhibitions) and the Macro by Decq Odile (which will begin
activities from October).
© Michelangelo Pistoletto
Zaha Hadid and Pio BaldiPhoto Cecchetti. Courtesy Fondazione MAXXI
Even poor old Gino De Dominicis, who would never
have imagined it, becomes an authentic symbol of Italian art, able to
prophesise much of the production in recent years, in the exhibition
curated by Achille Bonito Oliva. So it is that the "I" in MAXXI doesn’t
signify simply the first century of the third millennium, it also
stands for both Italian and International. So perhaps it’s no
coincidence that the one work that could find consensus among everybody
about the metamorphic capacity of the new museum in Via Guido Reni, is
the installation by Alfredo Jaar dedicated to Antonio Gramsci, when he
throws back to infinity the image of physical reclusion, that the magic
of art and artists (or a writer, as Gramsci) simply makes useless,
opening the mind up to new spaces and new sensorial experiences.
© Michelangelo Pistoletto
© Maurizio Mochetti, Rette di luce
Architect: Zaha Hadid ; Deck Odile
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