Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome

Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome
Established	1999
Location	Via Reggio Emilia 54, 00198 Roma, Italy
Director	Luca Massimo Barbero
Website	http://en.macro.roma.museum/

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO) is a municipal art museum located in the north-east of Rome, Italy, on Via Reggio Emilia.

History

The project began in the late 1990s over the site old factories Peroni. After an initial phase of restructuring of the site which allowed the opening of six rooms in September 1999, the museum was officially opened October 11, 2002.

Since 2003 the museum also have an annex entitled MACRO Future^[1] and composed of two refurbished flats of 1000 m2 each, in the former slaughterhouse of Rome, located in the neighborhood Testaccio.

Renovation

Since July 2004, an extension is being built in order to present all of the permanent collection. These arrangements have been entrusted to the French architect Odile Decq.

Collection

The MACRO's permanent collection includes a selection of some of the most significant expressions of the Italian art scene since the 1960s, such as the group Forma 1 with the works by Carla Accardi, Antonio Sanfilippo, Achille Perilli, Piero Dorazio, Leoncillo and Ettore Colla; the Arte Povera with Mario Ceroli and Pino Pascali; the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo with Tano Festa, Mario Schifano, Titina Maselli and Mimmo Rotella.^[2]

The gallery collect works by such artists as Giovanni Albanese, Andrea Aquilanti, Gianni Asdrubali, Domenico Bianchi, Bruno Ceccobelli, Sarah Ciracì, Enzo Cucchi, Fabrice de Nola, Gianni Dessì, Daniele Galliano, Federico Guida, Felice Levini, Fabio Mauri, Luigi Ontani, Cristiano Pintaldi, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Gioacchino Pontrelli, Sissi, Marco Tirelli.^[2][3]

Notes and references

1. ^ MACRO Future - Museum Structure URL retrieved 4 october 2009
2. ^ ^{a b} Collection - MACRO URL retrieved 4 october 2009
3. ^ Arnaldo Romani Brizzi, Ludovico Pratesi. Roman Construction Sites. Roma, Gangemi Editore, 2001, ISBN 8849201516

External links

• MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome website
• MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art on Architecture News Plus

Coordinates: 41°54′46.17″N 12°30′7.98″E / 41.912825°N 12.5022167°E / 41.912825; 12.5022167

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