Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma), usually known by the acronym MACRO, is a municipal contemporary art museum in Rome, Italy. The museum is housed in two separate places: a former brewery in Via Nizza, in the Salario quartiere (district) of the city; and a former slaughterhouse in Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, in the Testaccio district.
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- Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome was established or created on 1 January 1999.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma), usually known by the acronym MACRO, is a municipal contemporary art museum in Rome, Italy. The museum is housed in two separate places: a former brewery in Via Nizza, in the Salario quartiere (district) of the city; and a former slaughterhouse in Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, in the Testaccio district.
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• Name — Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome • Native Name — Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma • Director — Cristiana Perrella – Artistic Director • Website — museomacro.org • Location — Via Nizza 138, 00198 Rome, Italy • Architect — Gioacchino Ersoch (Testaccio building)
History
History
The project began in the late 1990s in the site of the old Peroni Brewery. After an initial phase of restructuring, which allowed the opening of six rooms in September 1999, the museum was officially opened 11 October 2002. Since 2003 the museum has also had an annex entitled MACRO Future, which comprises two refurbished buildings of 1,000 square metres each in the former slaughterhouse of Rome, several kilometers away in the Testaccio neighborhood.
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Since July 2004, an extension has been under construction in order to present all of the permanent collection. These arrangements have been entrusted to the French architect Odile Decq.
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Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome was established or created on 1 January 1999.
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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. The gallery collects works by such artists as Giovanni Albanese, Andrea Aquilanti, Gianni Asdrubali, Domenico Bianchi, Bruno Ceccobelli, Sarah Ciracì, Enzo Cucchi, Fabrice de Nola, Gianni Dessì, Gianfranco Baruchello, Daniele Galliano, Federico Guida, Felice Levini, Fabio Mauri, Luigi Ontani, Cristiano Pintaldi, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Gioacchino Pontrelli, Sissi, and Marco Tirelli.
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- 1.centroarte. Palazzo delle Esposizioni - Un secolo di mostre: 1883-1984.
- 2.Palombi. Catálogo generale delle collezioni. Autori dell'Ottocento.
- 3.vinilazio.org. Storia della Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporánea di Roma.
- 4.museiincomuneroma.it. MACRO -Portale dei Musei in Comune di Roma.
- 5.Macro Museo d'arte contemporánea Roma. Estructura del museo.
- 6.Museu macro. Progetto di ampliamento del MACRO.
- 7.Macro, parla l'architetto francese Odile Decq: il mio spazio è movimento.
- 8.Con il nuovo Macro, Roma capitale dell'arte contemporanea.
- 9.MACRO. Dalla collezione MACRO.
- 10.Cantieri Romani. 88-492-0151-6.
- 11.museiincomune. Sistema Musei in Comune.
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