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Maxxi Museum Art Library

This is a project by Ghigos ideas and it is located at Rome, Italy. Project's program: Interiors of museum library. There are seven images for Maxxi Museum Art Library.

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Project details

Project name: Maxxi Museum Art Library
Location: Rome, Italy
Program: Interiors of museum library
Year: Completion: 2010
Client: Fondazione Maxxi
Project by: Ghigos ideas
Team: Architects: Davide Crippa, Barbara Di Prete, Francesco Tosi

Project images

Designer's statement

Is it possible to put contemporary art in alphabetical order? Can you file it? How tell it to an exhibition audience?

Perhaps thinking of an exhibition that is also an archive, a special archive, like an artwork into artworks which allows to approach art in a different way.

It is an open and generous archive, where you can live a learning experience according to personal approach, and reinvent it each time with different materials.

In a timeless library are on stage the story of the DOCVA archive and the purposes of the MAXXI museum, in a dualism between tradition and contemporaneity that is also one of the interpretations of the space.

This encounter is embodied by a graphic: a big anamorphic sign fills part of the room. It is only possible to comprehend it entirely from the entrance, anywhere else it just looks like a wide collection of fragments and colored patterns scattered all over spaces and furnitures.