EXTRAORDINARY VISIONS. L’ITALIA CI GUARDA 40 masters of photography and 150 images recounting the Belpaese Beauty, contradictions and a look to the future

In the museum piazza the work Costruiamo la comunità del XXI secolo with which MAXXI is participating in the project Inside Out by JR

on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Italian Republic

2 June – 23 October 2016

#ExtraordinaryVisions | www.fondazionemaxxi.it Rome, June 2016. 40 Italian and international masters of photography; 150 images describing Italy in its multiple and at times contradictory guises. The exhibition EXTRAORDINARY VISIONS. L’ITALIA CI GUARDA opens to the public on 2 June, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Italian Republic to which MAXXI is paying tribute. EXTRAORDINARY VISIONS. L’ITALIA CI GUARDA - through to 23 October 2016 – has been curated by Margherita Guccione, director of MAXXI Architettura, together with a MAXXI research group composed of Simona Antonacci, Ilenia D’Ascoli, Laura Felci and Monia Trombetta.

Starting out from the works present in the MAXXI collections, the show will feature images of sublime landscapes and others compromised by decay, ideal cities and rundown suburbs, great architecture and marginal urban spaces, behaviours and customs, protagonists in the worlds of art and work, contradictions and pluralities that make up the identity of the Belpaese, immortalised through the lenses of, among others, Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Letizia Battaglia, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Franco Fontana, Giovanni Gastel, Luigi Ghirri, Mimmo Jodice, Armin Linke, Ugo Mulas, Ferdinando Scianna, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Massimo Vitali.

The exhibition will also feature the project Corpi di Reato by Tommaso Bonaventura, Alessandro Imbriaco and Fabio Severo: 35 small format photographs and the large print Fascicoli del Maxi Processo 1986-1987, Palermo that recounts the invisible yet diffuse mafias and that will be added to the MAXXI Architettura collection thanks to the support of the Amici del MAXXI.

“MAXXI is celebrating seventy years of the Republic of Italy with a major photographic exhibition – says Giovanna Melandri, President of MAXXI Foundation -, poetic, documentary, social and institutional “atlas” of the Italy of the last thirty years”. As Margherita Guccione says: “The exhibition is a visual journey via over one hundred photographs of the natural and cultural landscapes of the Italy of the last 30 years; photos that present an image far from the stereotype of the Belpaese and also construct a journey in terms of the idioms and the most advanced experimentation of contemporary photography.”

THE EXHIBITION The exhibition layout presents four sections (Art, architecture, culture; Res Publica; Paesaggi contemporanei; Comunità, Lavoro), enriched by videos and photo projections and by the special project Inside Out by JR, installed in the museum piazza.

Arte architettura, cultura | The exhibition opens with representations of the worlds of art, architecture, culture and fashion that underlie our national identity. The portraits of the artist of the Venice Biennale by Ugo Mulas and the photographs of Massimo Piersanti contained in the Graziella Lonardi Buontempo archive dialogue with architectural masterpieces photographed by greats such as Gabriele Basilico with the GIL building by Luigi Moretti in Rome. The constructions of the Foro Italico act as a backdrop to the fashion portraits of Giovanni Gastel that celebrate the Made in Italy phenomenon, while the images by Ferdinando Scianna, realised for the first Dolce & Gabbana advertising campaign integrated anthropological research and fashion photography.

Res pubblica | This section includes the work by Armin Linke, Il Corpo dello Stato, in which the artist investigates the "secret” rooms of power, the physical places in which decision making power is exercised. In

this reflection on public space and its use, Sicily stands as a mirror of the contradictions that are rife throughout the peninsular: the photographs of ecological protest by Letizia Battaglia confront the new forms of a mafia that is part of the system, insinuated in the municipalities, as testified by the project Corpi di reato by Alessandro Imbriaco, Tommaso Buonaventura and Fabio Severo, photographic documentation of the residences of members of mafia organizations found throughout Italy.

Paesaggi contemporanei | Sicily and Italy in general express a sublime, signified, pacific physicality. Certainly an image established in the collective imagination and frequently stereotypical. The gaze of a historic generation of photographers has focused on the relationship between this image and the post-modern panorama that has redefined the suburbs of our cities and above all from the 1980s onwards they have devoted themselves to rewriting the image of Italy: Luigi Ghirri, Mario Cresci, Guido Guidi. Another, equally intense, interpretation is that of Franco Fontana who offers an alienating and ecstatic vision of those landscapes.

Comunità, lavoro | From the landscape to the body, in a return to man as the central element and the activator of forces and intellectual and productive energies. In the final section of the exhibition, the world of work is recounted in the historical testimony of Tano D’Amico and Paola Agosti (the strikes, the sit-ins, female labour), from the images of refineries by Paolo Pellegrin to the more recent images of public competitions documented by Michele Borzoni.

In each section, a focus is dedicated to new horizons, to the research that is contaminating the idioms of video and photography. These include the installation by Petra Noordkamp dedicated to Gibellina, in which video shooting is treated like the static image of photography; the installation by Alterazioni video dedictaed to the unfinished architecture of Sicily; the "fast forward" to which Olivo Barbieri subjects the almost 8,000 images of La città perfetta; the video on the issue of immigration by the reporter Francesco Zirzola.

INSIDE OUT by JR at MAXXI: Costruiamo la comunità del XXI secolo Lastly, the work Costruiamo la comunità del XXI secolo (Let’s build the community of 21st century), curated by the museum’s Education Department, with which MAXXI is participating in the project Inside Out by JR (a photo-paster of French origins and unconfirmed identity, winner of the TED Prize 2011). On the basis of a workshop with pupils from the Guido Alessi school in Rome held in April (during which the pupils visited MAXXI and expressed their emotions which were “fixed” in black and white portraits) a large collective art work was created, a kaleidoscope of 250 portraits of the students that will be exhibited on an outside wall of MAXXI, offering a view of the multi-ethnic Italy of tomorrow. PHOTOGRAPHERS IN THE EXHIBITION Arte architettura, cultura. Gabriele Basilico, Paola De Pietri, Giovanni Gastel, Francesco Jodice, Ugo Mulas, Petra Noordkamp, Massimo Piersanti, Ferdinando Scianna, Hiroshi Sugimoto Res pubblica: Alterazioni video, Letizia Battaglia, Massimo Berruti, Gianni Cipriano and Simone Donati, Alessandro Imbriaco Tommaso Bonaventura and Fabio Severo, Armin Linke, Francesco Zizola Paesaggi contemporanei: Olivo Barbieri, Andrea Botto, Silvia Camporesi, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Mario Cresci, Franco Fontana, Luigi Ghirri, Guido Guidi, Giuseppe Leone, Walter Niedermayr, Massimo Vitali, Begoña Zubero Apodaca Comunità, lavoro: Paola Agosti, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Michele Borzoni, Tano D’Amico, Mimmo Jodice, Erich Lessing, Paolo Pellegrin, Mustafa Sabbagh, Mario Spada, Francesco Zizola Extraordinary Visions. L’Italia ci guarda Sponsors: Acea, BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas. With the support of Kingdom of the Nederlands Emabassy The press kit and images of the exhibition can be downloaded from the Reserved Area of the Fondazione MAXXI’s website at http://www.fondazionemaxxi.it/area-riservata/ by typing in the password areariservatamaxxi MAXXI – National Museum of 21°Century Arts www.fondazionemaxxi.it - info: 06.320.19.54; info@fondazionemaxxi.it opening hours: 11.00 AM-7.00 PM (Tues, Weds, Thurs, Fri, Sun) | 11.00 AM–10.00 PM (Sat) | closed Mondays MAXXI PRESS OFFICE +39 06 324861 press@fondazionemaxxi.it

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EXTRAORDINARY VISIONS. L’ITALIA CI GUARDA 2 June – 23 October 2016

Giovanna Melandri, Presidente Fondazione MAXXI MAXXI is celebrating seventy years of the Republic of Italy with a major photographic exhibition: Extraordinary Visions. L’Italia ci guarda, a poetic, documentary, social and institutional “atlas” of the Italy of the last thirty years. The collective exhibition brings together 150 shots by the greatest Italian and international photographers who have focused on Italy, reflecting on how the country has shown itself and been observed over recent decades. It starts with the revolutionary interpretation of the Italian landscape by Luigi Ghirri and encompasses Gabriele Basilico’s lucid architectural descriptions, the imaginative gaze of Mimmo Jodice and Franco Fontana, the documentary interpretation of Berengo Gardin, the architecture and sacred spaces of Hiroshi Sugimoto and the political scenes by Armin Linke, portraits by Ugo Mulas, popular tourist destinations portrayed by Massimo Vitali and contemporary accounts by the best-known press photographers. The exhibition is divided into four sections, producing a narrative that highlights and shapes the country’s different identities. Most of the works were commissioned by MAXXI for research projects and exhibitions. However, Extraordinary Visions is also an important opportunity to present the latest acquisitions, created thanks to the contribution of the Amici del Museo, who have enabled us to boost our collection with the works by Alessandro Imbriaco, Tommaso Bonaventura and Fabio Severo. They comprise images of the homes of members of organized crime and a large print of the maxi trial held in the bunker courtroom in Palermo’s Ucciardone prison. This extraordinary exhibition confirms MAXXI’s role as a workshop for contemporary creativity: shows, meetings, study programmes, film screenings and lessons, all of which recount the wealth and complexity of the present. This is a journey through the time, places, major events and the minor things immortalized through the power of the lens because, in the words of Mario Cresci, "exploring within photographic writing means continuing to investigate and discover, time after time, our relationship with what is real and imaginary in a rapidly changing society.”1

1 M. Cresci, in F. Fabiani (ed.), MAXXI Architettura. Fotografia Le Collezioni (Milan: Electa, 2010), p. 150

EXTRAORDINARY VISIONS. L’ITALIA CI GUARDA 2 June – 23 October 2016

Margherita Guccione, Direttore MAXXI Architettura Extraordinary Visions. L’Italia ci guarda is an exhibition that looks through the eyes of 150 different photographers, exploring the physical body, behaviours, customs, identity and memories of the Italy of today, interpreting the cultural transformations that have come about in Italy over recent decades. It is not just an illustrated history, or a chronological and descriptive account, but a zig-zagging journey that examines both sublime landscapes and those that have suffered from neglect, ideal cities and abused outskirts, leading artists and workers. It focuses on the contradictions and qualities that seem to denote the country’s new identity, marked by constantly flowing changes. The exhibition is therefore a poetic, documentary, social and institutional “atlas” of the Italy of the last 30 years, starting with the revolutionary interpretation of the Italian landscape by Luigi Ghirri, and encompassing the suspended vantage point of Mimmo Jodice and the selective gaze of Franco Fontana, looking at the fine architecture documented by Gabriele Basilico, Armin Linke’s reflections on political space, and popular tourist destinations portrayed by Massimo Vitali, the art world recounted by Ugo Mulas, Scianna’s anthropological insights on fashion and the creative approach adopted by Gastel.

The works are all from the MAXXI collections, which explains the selection of photographers and images: they are taken from projects commissioned by MAXXI Architettura from 2003 onwards, as part of campaigns aiming to document architecture and the changing landscape, such as Italian Atlas and Sguardi contemporanei, which explore the country’s new aesthetics; they also include works purchased by MAXXI Arte from the most important artistic studies to adopt the language of photography, and works by Mulas and Piersanti from the Incontri Internazionali d’Arte. The photographers include numerous representatives of the “Italian landscape school”, as well as photographers from subsequent generations and those working in different areas, from social reporting to artistic and conceptual experimentation.

The multifaceted identity of contemporary Italy can be explored in the four themes of the exhibition, each designed to be visually complete within itself thanks to both overlapping and divergent viewpoints. These inspire us us to look at the contemporary world in a different way so as to grasp the infinite different shades of the present, poised between memory and actuality. The twofold nature of the thematic area and the changing photographic language make the four sections resemble “lenses” through which we can look at Italy. In each one, there is a “focus” on the new worlds of photography, referring to the potential for linguistic experimentation and contamination: from Petra Noordkamp’s installation devoted to Gibellina, in which the film is treated like a static photographic image, to Olivo Barbieri’s “acceleration” of almost 8,000 images in La città perfetta, and JR’s participatory project Inside Out, which covers one of the external walls that faces onto the square outside MAXXI with photographic portraits of students from the local Guido Alessi school, conveying an idea of multiethnic cohesion with which MAXXI wants to associate itself.

The exhibition opens with representations of the world of art, architecture, culture and fashion, before going on to explore how institutions shape the “body” of the State and the Res publica. However, Italy also conveys a sublime physicality, layered with signs and values, rooted in the collective imagination and often stereotyped and taken for granted. Generations of photographers have focused on the relationship between this image and the postmodern contemporary landscapes that have redesigned the outskirts of Italian cities, following in the footsteps of Luigi Ghirri and updating the way in which the landscape is narrated. The community and work are crucial meeting points for different forces, intellectual and productive energies, whose stories, reports and faces tell the story of an era ranging from a distant past up to more recent times. At the end of the exhibition the challenge inherent in the possibility of creating a sort of provisional identity card for Italy through a fragmented account brings us outside, to JR’s Inside Out project, which takes us into the square where the city flows by, towards those areas where we are both players and spectators and from which we look at Italy and Italy looks at us.

EXTRAORDINARY VISIONS. L’ITALIA CI GUARDA 2 June – 23 October 2016

Inside Out by JR at MAXXI: Costruiamo la comunità del XXI secolo

JR – the pseudonym of the French “photograffeur” (photography graffiti artist), born in 1983, and whose identity is unconfirmed – started his activity in 2004, when he took series of pictures in the banlieues and then posted them illegally in the middle-class neighbourhoods of Paris to capture the complexity of a marginalized and rebellious generation.

JR’s “urban activism” emerges in invasive and pervasive works that exploit the poster’s power to communicate and circulate ideas as a way to discuss social commitment and identity, freedom and boundaries: from Brazilian favelas to African slums, and on to the wall separating Israel and Palestine.

In 2011 he launched the Inside Out Project, so that anyone who wants to spread a message or defend a cause can upload pictures of their community onto the Internet. JR supervises the posters, prints them in black and white, and then returns them to the sender; once the posters have been put up, they become a many-voiced work of art. The outcome is a global network of works aimed at overturning the stereotyped perception of reality, “turning the world… inside out”.1

MAXXI has decided to embrace this project, getting the local school, Guido Alessi, involved in a workshop based on emotivity; Costruiamo la comunità del XXI secolo – “Let’s build the community of the 21st century” – is a kaleidoscope of portraits whose expressive richness is the result of the multi-ethnic cohesion of the school community to which MAXXI feels it belongs, following years of shared educational activities.

1 http://www.jr-art.net

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BNL BNP Paribas Groupkeeps being committed to supporting art in its manifold forms and sponsors the

photographic exhibition "Extraordinary Visions. L’Italia ci guarda" dedicated to our country, on the

occasion of the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Italian Republic. The exhibition, hosted at MAXXI in

Rome from 2 June to 23 October, presents - in a large collective exhibition - Italy and its identity through

the shots of the most renowned Italian and international photographers.

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Especially in recent years, the Bank focused on the development of photography, one of the expressive

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Among the most recent events, it is worth recalling MIA PHOTO Fair in Milan, which took place between

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heritage. This year, the “BNL BNP Paribas Group Award” was won by Silvia Camporesi with the work

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SKY ARTE HDSKY ARTE HDSKY ARTE HDSKY ARTE HD it’s the first Italian TV channel dedicated to art in all its forms and it’s now available to all Sky subscribers (who have HD in their subscription) on channels 110110110110, 130130130130 and 400400400400 of the platform. Painting, sculpture, architecture, music, literature, theater, design and all forms of artistic expression are found within a single schedule dedicated not only to the fans who have the opportunity to deepen their interests, but also to the curious ones than can get closer to art in a brand new way, through both the major international productions (Sky Arts, BBC, Channel 4, Arte, PBS, Sundance Channel) and the original ones of the channel. Sky Arte HD tells the infinite resources of the world's artistic heritage, with a special consideration for the Italian extraordinary tradition and our artists’ talent and it uses a contemporary and never didactic language, characterized by the contamination of genres. The channel hosts all the languages of art. On the one hand, the Sistine Chapel, which was presented on Sky Arte HD in all its expressive power thanks to the original production Michelangelo Michelangelo Michelangelo Michelangelo –––– The heart and the stoneThe heart and the stoneThe heart and the stoneThe heart and the stone, broadcast on Sky 3D with an exclusive documentary on the Sistine Chapel, on 1st November. On the other hand, the channel tells the provocations of Marina Abramovic and the charm of conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, or rock legends as Jim Morrison, eclectic talents as Tom Ford and the queen of photography Annie Leibovitz. Among the originaloriginaloriginaloriginal productionsproductionsproductionsproductions, there are programs especially created for children, such as Art explained to Art explained to Art explained to Art explained to kidskidskidskids,,,, which uses cheerfulness to help children and parents to discover art as an element that can be part of everyone's life; furthermore, there are travels in the contemporary world, as Potevo farlo anPotevo farlo anPotevo farlo anPotevo farlo anch’ioch’ioch’ioch’io hosted by Alessandro Cattelan and Francesco Bonami , who travel with us among the wonders and the paradoxes of the greatest masterpieces of contemporary life, with an ironic approach. Local events have a great relevance on the channel: exhibitions, shows and retrospectives will be told in the report Great ExhibitionsGreat ExhibitionsGreat ExhibitionsGreat Exhibitions,,,, which describes step by step the complex mechanism of an exhibition, from the transport of works to the vernissage. On the occasion of the Salone and Fuorisalone 2013, Sky Arte HD realized the original production De.signDe.signDe.signDe.sign,,,, which led the audience in the heart of Milan design week with daily capsules daily capsules daily capsules daily capsules dedicated to the FuorisaloneFuorisaloneFuorisaloneFuorisalone, with a final reportfinal reportfinal reportfinal report on the whole 2013 edition 2013 edition 2013 edition 2013 edition and an important doc series on the history of design. Another Sky Arte HD original production is BookshowBookshowBookshowBookshow, a show entirely dedicated to books that tells their story through a simple but in-depth tripartite structure: aaaa book,book,book,book, aaaa place,place,place,place, aaaa guestguestguestguest. TheTheTheThe crossed destinies hotelcrossed destinies hotelcrossed destinies hotelcrossed destinies hotel is a carefree colorful cartoon which talks about particular meetings that have changed history; the set is a hotel where the room doors open and close on the fate of the protagonists. In June, Sky Arte HD presented ContactContactContactContact, another

original production that takes an extraordinary and fascinating journey in the forbidden city of photo proofs, near the famous photographers of famous photographers of famous photographers of famous photographers of MagnumMagnumMagnumMagnum Photos,Photos,Photos,Photos, the legendary agency founded in 1947. In October, Sky Arte presents Unveiled MasterpiecesUnveiled MasterpiecesUnveiled MasterpiecesUnveiled Masterpieces: : : : Greta ScacchiGreta ScacchiGreta ScacchiGreta Scacchi will explain how a great artist, as well as an extraordinary artistic interpreter, can also be a realrealrealreal storytellerstorytellerstorytellerstoryteller ofofofof herherherher timetimetimetime. In November a new season of ContactContactContactContact and StreetStreetStreetStreet ArtArtArtArt,,,, an original production dedicated to the world of street art, will be broadcast on Sky Arte. Sky Arte HD relies on the contributions of Enel, main sponsor of the channel and of its flagship shows, as Michelangelo – Il cuore e la pietra. Enel participates actively in the creation of ad-hoc productions, such as Corti di luce and the specials dedicated to Enel Contemporanea, the contemporary art project sponsored by the company, now in its 6th edition.

Sky Arts HD has also signed some important partnership with the Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and with festivals, exhibitions and fairs to tell the main Italian cultural events, such as the Festivaletteratura of Mantova, the RomaEuropa Festival and Artissima. Sky Arte HD will be a media partner of the MAXXIpartner of the MAXXIpartner of the MAXXIpartner of the MAXXI: starting from the month of October, there will be some original productions which will describe the main exhibitions of the season of the National Museum of the Arts of the XXI century (MAXXI). In line with modern language of programming, the channel has a strong presence on the web and on social networks (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram), thanks to the website www.skyarte.it and Sky Go, the streamingstreamingstreamingstreaming serviceserviceserviceservice programprogramprogramprogram thatthatthatthat allowsallowsallowsallows youyouyouyou totototo watchwatchwatchwatch SkySkySkySky onononon PCPCPCPC andandandand smartphones.smartphones.smartphones.smartphones. TheTheTheThe mainmainmainmain contentscontentscontentscontents ofofofof SkySkySkySky ArteArteArteArte HDHDHDHD areareareare alsoalsoalsoalso availableavailableavailableavailable onononon thethethethe SkySkySkySky onononon DeDeDeDemandmandmandmand service.service.service.service. «We are making a big commitment – says Roberto Pisoni, head of of Sky Arte HD – beacuse talking about arts on television, with all its facets and in a brand-new and original way is a great bet. Art, in its various expressions, both ancient and contemporary, both cultured and popular, is a life-changing experience, that offers an infinite source of exciting stories. We are proud to offer it to the Sky audience.»

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Passepartout Persia di Valentina Persia Via M. Guidi, 15 Castelnuovo di Porto, 00060 - Roma P.IVA: 13025661003 CF: PRSVNT85A45H501Y Tel/fax 069073005 passepartoutpersia@gmail.com

PassePartout Persia

Our firm has been offering since 1991 handmade wooden picture framesand passepartout to photographers, painters and collectors of old prints. We concentrated on making and promoting novel and innovative objects inresponse to the varied requirements of our customers.We have longcooperated with Incontri Internazionali d'Arte on several importantexhibitions and in 2008 we provided frames and passepartout for theVenice Biennale di Architettura.

In 2014 Valentina Persia, following in her parents' footsteps, proceeded torenovate the firm and founded P. P. Her long-standing love of art had ledher to pursue her studies at the "Via di Ripetta" secondary art School andlater in the Tuscia University Course in Preservation of Cultural Heritage.

Today P. P. has widened the range of its products to include laser-cut metalframes, high quality materials suitable for long-term preservation, and theloan of picture frames in large numbers and different types for exhibitionsand events throughout Italy. Our customers include: Ministero dei Beni ed Attività Culturali,Fondazione Italo Israeliana for culture and arts, the Italian CulturalInstitute in London, other Foundations, Museums, and world-renownedartists.

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