Tra/Between Art and Architecture, Rome, MAXXI, 17 April 2014 – 21 September 2014

Aula Nervi, 1966 ©MAXXI

Two exhibitions in one: Roma Interrotta and Piero Sartogo and the Artists, united by a common title that sums up the sprit both shows: TRA/BETWEEN ART AND ARCHITECTURE.
The exhibition opens at the MAXXI on 17 April (through 21 September 2014), in the Carlo Scarpa and Claudia Gain Ferrari galleries on the ground floor of the Museum. The exhibition is born of the collaboration between MAXXI Arte, under the direction of Anna Mattirolo, MAXXI Architettura directed by Margherita Guccione and Incontri Internazionali d’Arte. The show offers two itineraries through a dialogue between art and architecture. The exhibition confirms the desire to establish a common ground between diverse disciplines: innovative investigations of the meaning of contemporary creativity, the hallmark of the MAXXI’s programme as indicated by its Artistic Director Hou Hanru.
TRA/BETWEEN ART AND ARCHITECTURE is curated by Achille Bonito Oliva. The show looks back at a successful period characterised by an original attention toward contemporary artistic and architectura l culture, triggered in the 1970s by the work of the Associazi
one Incontri Internazionali d’Arte, under the guidance of Graziella Lonardi Buontempo. The title of the exhibition emphasises the contamination typical of these years between criticism and methods of exhibiting. It was during this period that shows such as
Rome Interrupted, and the work of architects like Piero Sartogo, spoke of a courageous time of exploration and exchanges between the diverse languages of art. During this period Piero Sartogo produced a true spatial interpretation of critical issues. Achille Bonito Oliva, the show’s curator, went as far as defining him “an artitecht, the author of a dialogue between macrospace and the micro-spaces of the works on display. The sign of an interdisciplinary vision of designing and making”.