A new exhibition space is born in Rome: the Vaccheria at Eur. It starts with an exhibition on Warhol

A new cultural space is born in Rome : it is La Vaccheria, an exhibition center of Roma Capitale located inEur and born from the “Eur-Castellaccio” urban planning agreement (it is located at 35 Via Giovanni l’Eltore, a side street of Via Cristoforo Colombo). La Vaccheria is a historic farmhouse, which has been completely restored to turn it into an exhibition space: the building was given to the City Council precisely as part of the “Eur - Castellaccio” urban planning program, as compensation for two areas that are important from an environmental, naturalistic and archaeological point of view: the Pratone delle Valli and the Volusia Park.

The Castellaccio farmhouse on the one hand will house archaeological finds recovered in the area of South Rome, managed by the Rome IX Municipality, and on the other will be the site of exhibitions. Thanks to the renovation and fit-out work, worth more than 3 million 175 thousand euros, La Vaccheria today is a space composed of a central body, formerly occupied by the stables, of about 1,590 square meters of net area with glass showcases and common spaces such as the conference room, refreshment area and bookshop; a two-story body of about 490 square meters of net area intended for offices and management; and an additional body with the laboratories and attached services (about 260 square meters of net area).

Vaccheria is opened to the public with the exhibition Flesh: Warhol & The Cow. Andy Warhol ’s Works at the Vaccheria. The exhibition, curated by Giuliano Gasparotti and Francesco Mazzei and free to visit until Oct. 30, reproduces a significant cross-section of the artist’s output with 80 works on display: From Cows to Campbell Cans, from Liza Minelli to Marilyn, to record and magazine covers, highlighting the skillful use of colors, emphasized by a luminous setting inspired by neon tubes, very much in vogue in those years, that enhances the peculiarities of the exhibition hall, which arose where a stable once stood. “The works,” the curators point out, “are displayed as if they were busts or statues of Roman emperors, in order to emphasize a parallelism with the images that have become simulacra of modern and contemporary divinities, but without ever neglecting that crude and ironic gaze that made Andy Warhol’s artistic legacy to the world brilliant.”

The exhibition dedicated to Warhol is flanked by the Sacred or Profane...? exhibition, which features a selection of works created by 16 artists, both professional and self-taught, whose production testifies to a strong connection with the territory and its history. The artists in question are Angela Caronna, Carlo Pantaleone, Fransisco Bertipaglia, Ilaria Bagaglia, Ivana Ligas, Luisa Laurelli, Manuela Scopigno, Marco De Rossi, Marisa Muzi, Miki Therese Pedro, Roberto Barberis, Rossella De Rossi, Rossella Di Donato, Salvatore Desiderio, Vanessa D’Amato, and Yuliya Hramyka. The latter artist deserves special mention, whose painting was purchased on the occasion of the initiatives undertaken by the Municipality IX in favor of the reception of mothers with Ukrainian children, who fled the war. An exhibition that is linked to the space in which it is located but is also meant to be its projection into the future in which, as one of the curators, Kristien De Neve, recalls, “Municipalities and institutions have the great mission of creating space/time to support the creativity and feeling proper to the territory and its inhabitants. Through events, open studios, workshops and exhibitions....”

The opening of the Vaccheria and the two exhibitions are realized by the Municipality IX of Roma Capitale with the support of the Mayor’s Cabinet, the Department of Urban Planning, the Department of Culture, and with the collaboration of Zètema Progetto Cultura.

“The recovery of the Vaccheria, the result of a fine team effort, delivers to the city an extraordinary cultural space that will host projects of great value,” said Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri. “This recovery intervention will give a great impulse to the enhancement of the entire quadrant and is a relevant piece of the strategy that we will implement throughout the Capital: to give back to citizens neighborhoods that are increasingly inclusive and alive, with widespread and efficient proximity services, and to redevelop spaces with the full involvement of the municipalities to create places of aggregation, sociality and culture.”

A new exhibition space is born in Rome: the Vaccheria at Eur. It starts with an exhibition on Warhol

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