L'Italia di Le Corbusier | Exhibition
MAXXI Museo Nazionale
delle Arti del XXI secolo

Rome, Italy
Exhibition curated by Marida Talamona
Partner: Fondation Le Corbusier
18.10.2012 - 17.02.2013
MAXXI | Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo 
Via Guido Reni 4a | Roma 

Architect, sculptor, painter, brilliant thinker of his time, a father of modern town planning and a master of the Modern Movement along: all this is  Le Corbusier, pseudonym of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris. MAXXI Architettura is devoting to this figure the exhibitionLe Corbusier’s Italy curated by Marida Talamona. 

Created in partnership with the Fondation Le Corbusier of Paris, the exhibition benefits from the contributions of an academic committee composed of some of the leading Corbusian experts. 320 original documents and 300 photographs for an exhibition that, adopting a chronological and thematic format, presents the influence of Italy on the training and the work of the master: from the first trips early in the 20th Century to the unbuilt projects for the Olivetti Electronic Calculation centre at Rho and the hospital in Venice from the 1960s.
 

THE EXHIBITION

The exhibition features a variety of documents, notes on trips, studies, cultural exchanges and personal aspirations, from sketches of the Italian monuments in carnets de voyage to the 18^th century reproduction of the plan of ancient Rome by Pirro Ligorio of which Le Corbusier reproduced a fragment to illustrate his Leçon de Rome, from the correspondence with Pier Luigi Nervi to the six large sheets with drawings sketched during the conference in Milan in the June of 1934 that all document the architect's complex "Italian" education, stimulated by prolonged direct experience and in-depth research in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

A wealth of photographic material accompanies the exhibition, providing for an integrated reading of a less well-known Le Corbusier in the dialogue he established with his artistic and architectural contemporaries, restoring the full breadth of his intellectual stature and the exceptional nature of his thinking.

SCIENTIFIC BOAR
• Barbara Cinelli
• Giorgio Ciucci
• Jean-Louis Cohen
• Benedetto Gravagnuolo
• Giuliano Gresleri
• Francesco Passanti
• Marida Talamona 
• Stanislaus von Moos

RELATED EVENTS
• 29.11.2012 
Three hours with Le Corbusier | A meeting with Francesco Dal Co 
Foyer di Architettura
Free entrance

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