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The Large Glass
The Museum Collection鈥檚 new layout presents a new vision in which an artist or intellectual brings works of art, architecture, and photography together. This is an opportunity for appreciation and research to present the works of great masters and contemporary artists.
For The Large Glass, the curatorship is entrusted to Alex Da Corte, an American conceptual artist who experiments with different media, including painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and video. Exploring the various nuances of contemporary experience, Da Corte reads the MAXXI Collection in an organic sense: 鈥淲ithin the swelling curves of Zaha Hadid鈥檚 grand design, we see the classical elements of water, wind, fire, and earth. We see growth, decay, transformation, and nature鈥檚 seep through all things [鈥 As the world churns and crusts in alchemy, we take our journey toward an inevitable invisible ether. We may move beyond, with nature as our guide, to a glass age. Here we may exist everywhere, evolving, while leaving no physical trace.鈥�
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The Museum Collection鈥檚 new layout presents a new vision in which an artist or intellectual brings works of art, architecture, and photography together. This is an opportunity for appreciation and research to present the works of great masters and contemporary artists.
For The Large Glass, the curatorship is entrusted to Alex Da Corte, an American conceptual artist who experiments with different media, including painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and video. Exploring the various nuances of contemporary experience, Da Corte reads the MAXXI Collection in an organic sense: 鈥淲ithin the swelling curves of Zaha Hadid鈥檚 grand design, we see the classical elements of water, wind, fire, and earth. We see growth, decay, transformation, and nature鈥檚 seep through all things [鈥 As the world churns and crusts in alchemy, we take our journey toward an inevitable invisible ether. We may move beyond, with nature as our guide, to a glass age. Here we may exist everywhere, evolving, while leaving no physical trace.鈥�
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"The Large Glass," the latest exhibition at the MAXXI Museum in Rome, curated by the renowned American artist Alex Da Corte, opens to the public on December 13.
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