June 23–September 18, 2016
Rome
Italy
Meris Angioletti, Francesco Arena, Kader Attia, Elisabetta Benassi, Daniel Buren, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Loris Cecchini, Isabelle Cornaro, Michael Dean, Maria Adele Del Vecchio, Giulio Delvé, Gabriele De Santis, Tomaso De Luca, Flavio Favelli, Piero Golia, Petrit Halilaj, David Horvitz, Kapwani Kiwanga, Jannis Kounellis, Marko Lulić, Masbedo, Emiliano Maggi, Michal Rovner, Rosalind Nashashibi, Valerio Rocco Orlando, Alessandro Piangiamore, Gianni Politi, Marinella Senatore, Sissi, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Adrian Tranquilli, Nico Vascellari, Tris Vonna Michell, Guido van der Werve, Sislej Xhafa, Chen Zhen
Curated by Raffaella Frascarelli
In an area that has been closed to the public for decades (Domus Severiana, Palatine Stadium, Lower Peristyle Domus Augustana), the Nomas Foundation collection opens a dialogue with the identity of Rome, poised between the suggestions of the ancient and the sociopolitical contradictions generated by the diffusion and mutation of its image. At the center of the critical debate, the appropriation of the historical memory (spolia), the ideological manipulation of the masses operated by ancient art, the creation of a myth for power, the active dictatorship of the "religio," the forceful structuring of "lex" and "ius," the global paradox and the contradictions of the cultural heritage. A journey of dissent within the myth of Rome, an anarchic re-reading of the devices for the stratification of history, an experience of self education which shifts our view to a more active role, disclosing uncomfortable perspectives towards an open and critical cultural consumption.
Site specific
Sislej Xhafa (Colosseum-Meta Sudans)
Daniel Buren (Domus Severiana Upper Terrace)
Kader Attia (Domus Augustana Lower Peristyle)
Programme
Performance at Palatine Stadium
June 23
Emiliano Maggi
July 21
Sissi
July 28
Tomaso De Luca
September 8
Meris Angioletti
June-September
Nico Vascellari
September 2016
Symposium: "Lo spazio dell’arte tra passato e futuro" (The art space between past and future)
