L’AQUILA – Three evenings, this week, for Summer at MAXXI L’Aquila | Books and cinema in the court the museum’s public program with events dedicated to cinema and books, hosted in the courtyard of Palazzo Ardinghelli and carried out in collaboration respectively with L’Aquila Film Festival and with theUniversity of L’Aquila, Culture Wednesdays and with the Sponsored by the Municipality of L’Aquila.
All events are free to enter while places last.
Friday 28 June, Furthermore, from 11MAXXI L’Aquila inaugurates the new exhibition Architecture and cities in the Horn of Africa A shared heritage curated by MAXXI Architettura with Andrea Mantovano and presents the urban furniture project for Piazza Santa Maria Paganica Go Go – created in collaboration withUniversity of L’Aquila – and the exhibition project Second Order reality of the artist Carola Bonfili promoted by Italian Council.
CINEMA There are two evenings dedicated to the seventh art as part of the exhibition Primary Visionsa selection of debut Italian films on key contemporary themes investigated with innovative languages and sensitivity, proposed by L’Aquila Film Festival.
Tomorrow night, Wednesday 26 June, at 9pmthe black comedy of Damiano Giacomelli – present at the screening – Castelrotto (2024) defined as a revenge movie on local fake news, set in a small town in the Macerata Apennines which suddenly becomes the scene of a news story. The protagonist is a stubborn but ambiguous Don Quixote, played by Giorgio Colangeli, who wants to manipulate the story of a provincial mystery for a personal revenge.
Second appointment with the cinema Friday 28 June always at 9pmthis time with Zamoraby Neri Marcorèactor and television host much loved by the general public who with this work makes his directorial debut in 2023 and also earns a nomination for the 2024 Silver Ribbons. Based on the novel by sports journalist Roberto Perrone, the film is set in Milan in the 1960s in which the protagonist of the film, Walter Vismara played by Alberto Paradossi, and Giorgio Cavazzoni move, to whom Neri Marcorè himself gives his face.
BOOKS On Thursday 27 June at 7pm, the courtyard of the MAXXI L’Aquila hosts Danilo Zagaria, biologist and passionate populariser, with a lecture based on the themes presented in the volume The green tangle. Inhabiting forests from the Mesozoic to science fiction, a journey through the extraordinary arboreal complexity of the earth’s forests, to be cared for and preserved for the future.
Forests cover a good part of the emerged land in a large tangle of roots, branches, trees, leaves and living beings. To tell it, the author enriches forestry, ecological and geological sciences with forays into literature, philosophy, anthropology, architecture and economics. Moving from the mangrove forests on the ocean coasts to the Siberian taiga, from the tropical canopies to the oak-hornbeam forests in the heart of Europe, Zagaria is a complex and stratified world, from the depths of the earth to the flying rivers, from prehistory to the future. The green tangle weaves together stories that move in space and time and “multispecies stories”, as Donna Haraway calls them, whose threads are picked up by other hands, creating unpredictable and surprising links.
