Art Exhibits of Interest

Museum of Contemporary Art
Urs Lüthi – Just Another Story About Leaving
The first exhibition in Rome dedicated to Swiss artist Urs Lüthi, who is known for her photographic depictions of ambiguities in individuals and objects. For this exhibition, the artist has developed a complex site-specific project based on the concept of departure and distance. With no fixed boundaries to respect, Urs Lüthi is free to explore spaces in the city where an encounter between the present and many histories are a source of inspiration, informing the artist of converging paths.
MACRO – Museo D’Arte Contemporary, Roma Via Reggio Emilia 54 (Flaminio)
Tuesday-Sunday 9am-7pm; 16 through April 5 tel 06 671 070400

Via Libera - Viva la libertà and Apocalypse Wow!
Presented contemporaneously at MACRO Future and Ex-Mattioli, in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, the exhibitions relate art and society to that historic occasion through multi-media production, paintings, sculptures, installations, documents and television news segments.
"Via Libera - Viva la Libertà" is divided into two sections. The first presents an eight-minute audio-video retrospective of the actual collapse of the Berlin wall. The second, a three-screen installation showing simultaneous broadcasts of the event being transmitted over East and West Berlin television networks and networks throughout the world. Lastly, a series of television screens transmit flashback and commentary of the occasion 20 years later, reported by Italian journalists who covered the story at the time. The exhibitions also celebrate the fall of a system that stifled artistic expression and exchange between the East and West. "Apocalypse Wow!" unveils the form and color of pop surrealism, neo pop and urban art, currents that were suppressed for three generations. A group exhibition of 80 works across a broad range of genres in sculpture, painting and installation links generations, which in the past 20 years have constructed the so called, globalized era. Works by an international roster of artists, including Shepard Fairey, Keith Herring, Jan Michel Basquiat, Daniel Richter, Nicola Verlato, Doze Green, Barry McGee, the Clayton Brothers and others. The painting shown here is by Italian artist Nicola Verlato.
Macro Future – Ex Mattatoio, Piazza Orazio Giustiniani (Testaccio)
Tuesday-Sunday 4 pm - midnight; though January 31, 2010