until Sunday January 12 2020

MAXXI
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Via Guido Reni, 4A
00196 Rome
Italy

On the occasion of the centenary of her birth, MAXXI is dedicating a major exhibition to Maria Lai(1919-2013), one of the most unique characters of contemporary art in Italy, and her works have recently been displayed at Documenta 14 and the 2017 edition of the Venice Biennale.

A necessary tribute to a great artist who created a language in relational art made of sensitivity, local tradition and global codes.
Tenendo per mano il sole is the title of the exhibition and the first Sewn Fable made by the artist. Both the title and the work contain many of the elements typical of Lai’s research: her interest in poetry, language and the word; the cosmogony of her geographies evoked by the sun; the pedagogical vocation implicit in that “taking by the hand”. Not so much a classic retrospective as a story that is not bound by purely chronological constraints and follows a peculiar biographical and artistic path, characterised by discourses and intuitions apparently left suspended before being taken up again many years later.

MARIA LAI. TENENDO PER MANO IL SOLE
From 19 June 2019 till 12 January 2020