An exhibition featuring a wide range
of photos, sculptures and works of art by young artists
alongside works from the permanent collection will on Wednesday
usher in a new season in the National Gallery of Modern Art
(GNAM).
Renovations on the historic building almost completed,
photos by such artists as Barbara Probst, Hiroshi Sugimoto,
Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Giulia Cenci and Marie Lund will be
juxtaposed with works from the museum collection by Alexander
Calder, Medardo Rosso and Lucio Fontana.
The exhibition will run from June 22 to January 29 and is
meant to rebel for the sake of quality "against the trend to
hold gigantic exhibitions", said the museum's new director,
Cristiana Collu.
It is also a sort of foreshadowing of a much larger one to
be held in October after all the renovation work has been
completed.
Culture minister Dario Franceschini noted that "large
changes are brought in through small steps. Here, in silence,
the right direction was taken".
"La Galleria Nazionale" aims to attract a huge number of
visitors and now has a renovated bookshop and the large Colonne
hall offering couches, tables and soon gardens to those passing
by, even if they don't visit the museum itself.
The renovations by Martì Guixé have brought in a huge
amount of light to the monumental entrance and the large halls
designed in 1911 by Cesare Bazzani.
Collu said that the work had been "archaeological" in
nature, an attempt to "rediscover its architecture through light
and the spaces as conceived by Bazzani in his time".
Franceschini underscored that a integrated ticket for both
MAXXI and the National Gallery of Modern Art would be available
starting on Tuesday.
The museum in its entirety is expected to open on October
10.
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