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Jean-A Auguste-D Dominique Ingres / Ellsworth Kelly. 20 June26 Sept. The exhibition examines the links between the contemporary abstract American painter and the 19th-century director of the French Academy. The exhibition, curated by the academy’s current director Éric de Chassey, displays some of Kelly’s recent abstract works as well as his drawings of flowers and figures, together with key Ingres works from the Louvre, Montauban and Besançon museums. Grandes Galeries, Villa Medici, Viale Trinità dei Monti 1, tel. 0667611, www.villamedici.it. 11.00-13.00, 14.0019.00. Mon closed.
Rome 1V page 15 Gli acquerelli di Roesler Franz. 10 July-15 Sept.
This collection of paintings from the Museo di Roma in Trastevere is made up of watercolours by Ettore Roesler Franz from the larger collection dedicated to “Roma sparita” in the Museo di Roma in Palazzo Braschi. Roesler Franz painted and photographed the areas most involved in the rapid modernisation of Rome immediately after 1870: Piazza Venezia, the Ghetto, the Borgo, Trastevere, Monti and the banks of the Tiber. His work shows a pontifical Rome that is still estranged from the new bourgeois climate of the time. Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Piazza S. Egidio 1b, tel. 060608. 09.00-21.00. NEW
L’Età della Conquista. Il fascino dell’arte greca a Roma. 5 March-5 Sept. This exhibition represents one of the most significant eras for the development of western art: the period following the Greek campaigns at the end of the third century BC until the first half of the first century AD. It features imposing marble, bronze and terracotta statues including cycles and friezes as well as domestic decorative elements. Capitoline Museums, Piazza del Campidoglio, tel. 060608. 09.00-20.00.
2V page 15 MACROwall: eighties are back! – Luigi Carboni. 16 July-17 Oct. This project reinterprets Italian art of the 1980s with a cycle of exhibitions featuring ten artists who characterised the decade. Each artist is invited to display two representative works, an historical one and a more recent one, which are reviewed by a young and an older art critic respectively. Macro Conference Room, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Via Reggio Emilia 54, tel. 06671070400. 10.00-19.00. Mon closed. NEW
Martin Parr – Four Decades. 9 June-18 Sept. The exhibition illustrates 40 years of work by the British photographer Martin Parr. It includes some of his early black and white photographs from the 1970s, taken in Manchester, Yorkshire and East Sussex; the domestic interiors from the Home Sweet Home series (1974) plus various images from the Last Resort (1983-86), Small World (1987-94), Bored Couples (1991-93), Common Sense (1995-99) and Luxury (2009). Studio Trisorio, Vicolo delle Vacche 12, tel. 0668136189. 16.00-20.00. Sun and Mon closed. 3V page 15 Aaron Young. Slippery when wet. 1 June-10 Oct.
La forma del Rinascimento. Donatello, Andrea Bregno, Michelangelo e la scultura a Roma nel quattrocento. 21 May-5 Sept. This exhibition focuses on the work of the three great 15th-century sculptors during the period of stylistic renovation in the Rome of the so-called humanist popes, from Pius II to Leo X. It includes a precious highrelief by Michelangelo that has never been shown in public before. Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Venezia, Via del Plebiscito 118, tel. 060608. 10.00-19.00. Mon closed.
Il tempo, lo sbaglio, lo spazio (1969) by Gino De Dominicis from the Collezione Lia Rumma, on show at MAXXI – Museo delle Arti del XXI Secolo.
Macro dedicates one of its large galleries to a solo show by the young American artist Aaron Young. This site-specific installation consists of four videos shot in a variety of locations from the Palace of Versailles to a frozen lake in New York State. One of the videos presents a liberal and disillusioned interpretation of the Colosseum. Macro, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Via Reggio Emilia 54, tel. 06671070400. 10.00-19.00. Mon closed.
Gladiatores. 26 March-3 Oct. A vast exhibition of epigraphs, frescoes, mosaics, statues and other historical documents narrate the history of Roman gladiators, focusing on their art of fighting, their psychology and their social status. Colosseum. For booking and information tel. 0639967700. 08.30-19.15.
Gino De Dominicis. L’immortale. 30 May-7 Nov. The exhibition highlights the artist’s major iconographic and thematic concerns. It includes photographs, sculptures, paintings, installations and videos created from the beginning of De Dominicis’s career in the 1960s right up until his death at the end of the 1990s. MAXXI – Museo delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Via Guido Reni 6, tel. 063210181. 11.00-19.00. Thurs 11.00-22.00. Mon closed.
Jacob Hashimoto. 1 June-22 Aug. Macro has inaugurated one of the spaces joining its existing premises and its new wing (not yet open to the public) with a site-specific installation by Jacob Hashimoto entitled Silence Still Governs Our Consciousness, which encourages reflection on the future purpose of the gallery: as a void, as space or as time. Macro, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Via Reggio Emilia 54, tel. 06671070400. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed.
Philip Guston, Roma. 26 May-5 Sept. Over 40 works from the series Roma, painted by Philip Guston between 1970 and 1971, are shown together for the first time. Organised in conjunction with the American Academy in Rome and curated by Peter Benson Miller, the works are on loan from international museums and private art collections. The focus of the exhibition is on Guston’s life-long interest in Italian art and culture and his late return to figurative painting. Museo Carlo Bilotti, Aranciera di Villa Borghese, Viale Fiorello La Guardia, tel. 060608, www.museocarlobilotti.it. 09.00-21.00. Piranesi, Rembrandt delle rovine. 27 July-26 Sept. What did Rome look like during Goethe’s time? This exhibition answers this question with a selection of works by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) belonging to the museum’s permanent collection. Casa di Goethe, Via del Corso 18, tel. 0632650412. 10.00-18.00. Mon closed. For more exhibitions in Rome and in other Italian cities as well as for museum times in Rome see our website www.wantedinrome.com and www.wantedineurope.com for Milan.
O music 1O page 15 Concerti a S. Clemente al Colosseo. 10 July28 Aug. Courtyard of the basilica of S. Clemente al Colosseo, Piazza S. Clemente 1 (corner of Via Labicana and Via S. Giovanni in Laterano). For information tel. 340/0880077, www.romamusicaestate.com. Lyrical, symphonic, chamber, jazz and gospel music rings out once again beneath the beautiful vaults of the ancient church of S. Clemente after three years of restoration of the courtyard. Look out for the Gypsy Orchestra of Budapest (5 Aug), a series of lyrical concerts dedicated to Mozart and Puccini (until 6 Aug), Mozart’s concert for piano and orchestra K467 by the Orchestra Sinfonica del Tuscia Opera Festival di Viterbo with the young soloist Matteo Biscetti conducted by Stefano Vignati (14 Aug), a concert of traditional Neapolitan music by the Almalatina ensemble (13 Aug) and Harold Bradley’s Bronzeville American Gospel (18 Aug).
Concerti del Tempietto 2010. 4 June-3 Oct. Concerts at Teatro di Marcello, Via del Teatro di Marcello. For booking and information www.tempietto.it. The Festival Musicale delle Nazioni is back with a recital or a concert every evening in its beautiful setting in the Roman Teatro di Marcello. Many of the events on the programme come to life in conjunction with foreign embassies and academies in Rome. Concerts start at 20.30. International Chamber Ensemble. 2 July-10 Aug. Concerts in the courtyard of S. Ivo alla Sapienza, Corso Rinascimento 40. For booking and information tel. 0686800125, www.interensemble.org.
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Polish-Canadian pianist Katarzyna Musial performs for Concerti del Tempietto on 4 Aug.
Evening events in the courtyard of one of the city’s most splendid examples of renaissance architecture. Just a short walk from Piazza Navona, the courtyard – part of the original 15th-century university of Rome – and its excellent acoustics lend themselves to a pleasant and successful musical initiative. 7 Aug. The fabulous ‘60s between Piazzolla and the Beatles: concert by the orchestra of the International Chamber Ensemble. Music by Piazzolla, McCartney, Lennon and Harrison (21.30). Repeated 10 Aug (21.30). 2 O page 15 Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia. Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin, tel. 0680242501, www.santacecilia.it.
2-24 Sept. Beethoven: Le Sinfonie. The Orchestra and Choir of the Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia, under the direction of guest conductor Kurt Masur, perform Beethoven’s nine symphonies. The programme consists of four separate concerts beginning at 21.00, each of which is repeated the following day. 2 Sept. Symphonies 1, 2 and 3. Repeated 3 Sept; 9 Sept. Symphonies 4 and 5. Repeated 10 Sept; 16 Sept. Symphonies 6 and 7. Repeated 17 Sept; 23 Sept. Symphonies 8 and 9. Repeated 24 Sept. In addition on 8 Sept there is a concert by the Turkish National Youth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Cem Mansur, with Salvatore Accardo violin. Music by Erkin, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov (21.00).
4 August 2010