Four actors and a writer narrate iconic works at MAXXI

by Redazione , published on 14/11/2020
Categories: Museums / Disclaimer
MAXXI's online schedule is enriched with Collection to Listen To: four actors and a writer narrate the museum's works.

Starting Nov. 15, every Sunday at 12:30 p.m. for five weeks, four actors and a writer will narrate five iconic works at MAXXI. The museum ’s online scheduleis enriched by the Collezione da ascoltare project: involved will be Sonia Bergamasco, Luca Zingaretti, Isabella Ragonese, Luigi Lo Cascio and Michela Murgia who will give voice to e così sia... by Bruna Esposito, Plegaria Muda by Doris Salcedo, The Emancipation Approximation by Kara Walker, Inventory. The Fountains of Za’atari by Margherita Moscardini and Untitled by Maria Lai.

The works will be narrated through audiodescriptions, the texts of which were written by Sofia Bilotta, head of MAXXI’s Public Engagement Office, in collaboration with Rosella Frittelli and Luciano Pulerà, blind participants in MAXXI’s Public Engagement programs.

It starts on Sunday, Nov. 15, with Sonia Bergamasco and the work e così sia... by Bruna Esposito, a large mandala made with seeds and legumes and each arm is dedicated to one of the four elements.
On Nov. 22 it will be the turn of Luca Zingaretti and the work Plegaria Muda by Doris Salcedo, dedicated to the unnamed victims of violent deaths; on Nov. 29 Isabella Ragonese will narrate The Emancipation Approximation by Kara Walker, an ironic quotation of the Emacipation Proclamation with which Lincoln abolished slavery in 1863. On Dec. 6, Luigi Lo Cascio will describe Margherita Moscardini’s work, Inventory. The Fountains of Za’atari, a life-size model in resin earth and sand of one of the 61 fountains that the artist mapped in the courtyards of the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan; and finally Michela Murgia will discuss Maria Lai’s Untitled on December 13.

Ph.Credit MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts.

Four actors and a writer narrate iconic works at MAXXI
Four actors and a writer narrate iconic works at MAXXI


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