Fresh from the recent record number of visits to the exhibition Environments 1956 – 2010The MAXXI Museum Of Rome continues its exhibition schedule with Giovanni Anselmo. Over the horizon, edited by Gloria Moure and in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, where it debuted last February. An exhibition that is certainly more intimate, intellectual and less engaging for a pop audience, but very relevant for the museum’s cultural programming. A balance (a sophisticated exhibition alongside a more popular exhibition) which could be the leitmotif of MAXXI for the next few years. The project focuses on the research, approach and career of the great artist Giovanni Anselmo (Borgofranco d’Ivrea, 1934 – Turin, 2023), bringing together iconic works created between the 1960s and 2000s. In addition to returning a portrait of the recently deceased Piedmontese artist, the exhibition – available until 6 October 2024 – presents itself as a complete work conceived and designed by the artist before his death.
The exhibition “Giovanni Anselmo. Beyond the horizon” at the MAXXI in Rome
Imagined as a journey without interruptions, Giovanni Anselmo. Beyond the horizonand accompanies the public to discover one of the founding artists of the movementPoor art, bringing together works ranging from installations to photography and sculpture, characterized by a peculiar stylistic signature. Throughout his career, Anselmo has focused his interest on the order and cyclicality of natural phenomena, trying to give shape to energy, time, orientation and gravitational forces through his works. I am an example of this Detail of infinity, Direction, While towards ultramarine the color lifts the stone, Twist and Fade (to name just a few), which fit perfectly with the exhibition space of the Gallery 5the most scenic of the MAXXI Museum.
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The exhibition “Giovanni Anselmo. Beyond the horizon” according to the curator Gloria Moure
“In addition to his very important artistic legacy, Anselmo shows us the example of his position and his convinced defense”, so writes the curator Gloria Moure in the critical text accompanying the exhibition. “Opposing from the beginning to any aesthetic evasion, it retransmits the essence of the bewilderment and poetry that our perceptions entail, and with it the certainty that we must observe and not see, because this is why art is part of the human condition. With Giovanni Anselmo we realize that the human condition is, so to speak, the artistic condition, because individuals have no choice but to continually redefine their environment, relativizing and questioning previously established conventions.”
Word to the director of the MAXXI Museum in Rome Francesco Stocchi
“The exhibition ‘Giovanni Anselmo. Beyond the horizon’ represents the second stage of the new program and I would say that it is a complementary exhibition to ‘Ambienti 1956 – 2010’ because it works with the skin of architecture”, explains ad Artribune Francesco Stocchi, artistic director of the Roman contemporary art museum. “If with the ‘Ambienti’ exhibition we present a series of works where ‘you enter and exit’, subtracting the artistic object in favor of the visitor and the architecture, with Giovanni Anselmo we return to the objet d’art within a sensitive context of an artist who works on natural phenomena and the energies that sustain our life. All the invisible that actually controls our lives, such as: magnetism, balance, the idea of time and erosion”. An important and impactful exhibition which, although it may seem at first “difficult and cryptic”goes very well with Zaha Hadid’s spaces and “this new management of the museum has clear ideas in wanting to welcome this extraordinary building”, continues Stocchi. “Not an easy undertaking but difficulties often lead to new ideas. We have a garden, let’s grow it”.
Valentina Muzi
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