A multidisciplinary show curated by Lisa Andreani featuring handicrafts from material culture, artworks, photographic documents and editorial materials, poetry, design and architectural projects. Italian writer, translator and director Gianni Celati’s expression the “available quotidian” is the common thread running through the exhibition halls of Palazzo Ardinghelli, guiding visitors along an itinerary dedicated to the “unseen”: scenes, landscapes and gestures from daily life that often go unnoticed. Rediscovering the “unseen” is therefore essential to understanding its value and uncovering new, potential meanings. The terrain is explored as the result of a process of stratification, connecting to the concepts of memory and materiality evoked by the works and handicrafts on display. In a dimension of constant connection, correlations are identified between stories and objects that seem similar, between the ordinary and tradition, between historical documentation and invention, giving rise to stories that are neither exemplary nor paradigmatic, but rather fluid and given to change.
Participant artists:
Franco Assetto, Amedeo Aureli, Yto Barrada, Gianfranco Baruchello, Gianfranco Baruchello and Henry Martin, David Blamey, Diego Carpitella, Luciano Caruso, Luciano Caruso and Giuliano Longone, Cavart, Giorgio Ceretti, Pietro Derossi and Riccardo Rosso, Continuum, Mario Cresci, Claudia Durastanti, Francesco De Melis, Formafantasma, Francesco Garnier Valletti, Luigi Ghirri, Ezio Gribaudo, Illustrazione Abruzzese, Enzo Mari, Ana Mendieta, Bruno Munari, Ramona Ponzini, Quarto di Santa Giusta Centro Multimediale, Moira Ricci, Annabella Rossi, Bernard Rudofsky, Marco Schiavone, Shimabuku, Alessandra Spranzi, Susan Sontag, Superstudio, Luca Trevisani, Nico Vascellari, Luca Vitone and all the creators of the handicrafts from the Folk Art and Tradition Collections of the Museo delle Civiltà.
Curated by
Lisa Andreani
at MAXXI, Rome
until May 4, 2025
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