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| Fernando and Humberto Campana |
Eighty drawings, models, photographs, videos and objects. Two site-specific installations by
Fernando and Humberto Campana and
raumlaborberlin. One photographic exhibit, Permanent Error by
Pieter Hugo. Not only an exhibition,
Re-cycle at Rome's
Maxxi Museum aims to teach us to consider recycling as "one of the greatest generators of creative innovation".
Until April 29, the Maxxi Museum is dedicated to the architecture of the third millennium and to its most innovative practices. Re-cycle is curated by Pippo Ciorra, senior curator at MAXXI Architettura, together with the architecture museum’s curatorial staff and an international scientific committee.
The exhibition features both very recent projects, produced in real time by the new environmental
sensitivity pervading the work of the designers, and more consolidated and even historic examples, testifying that recycling is a practice deeply-rooted within the artistic and design professions.
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| raumlabor |
Among the most well-known and spectacular works on show are: the original model of the
High Line in New York; a drawing by
Peter Eisenman for Cannaregio in Venice, those of
Superstudio for the raising of the Colosseum, images of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris by
Lacaton & Vassal, and videos with recycling of works by Frank O. Gehry and
Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates.
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| Superstudio |
In the museum’s external space, site-specific projects will provide a
demonstration of the
potential of recycling. Maloca by Fernando and Humberto Campana, curated
by Domitilla Dardi, is a large-scale installation in wood and synthetic
raffia, based on a Brazilian tradition revisited in a contemporary key and located so as to cover the museum entrance. The objective is to welcome visitors within an intermediate space recalling the communal structures of the Amazon Indians while at the same time dialoguing with the fluid and ultra-modern forms of
Zaha Hadid's museum structure.
