Between architecture and myth, the Maxxi tells the story of stadiums
The famous Wembley and the Olympic Stadium by Populous studio. The San Nicola of Bari signed by Renzo Piano or the Ferraris of Genoa renovated by Vittorio Gregotti. But also the most famous (and visited) in the world: the Colosseum. Temples of sport, but also of music and gatherings, events politicians, religious ceremonies and city branding objects, are today the protagonists of Stadi. Architecture and myth, the first major exhibition in Italy dedicated to this typology architectural, at the Maxxi until October 26th. A journey, edited by Manuel Orazi, Fabio Salomoni and Moira Valeri, opened by the video work Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, who through 17 cameras capture every gesture, look and breath of the champion French during the match between Real Madrid and Villareal in 2005. Then we go to illustrious forerunners such as the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens to modern stadiums such as Archibald Leitch's Ayresome Park, the Le Corbusier's Stadium of 100,000 or the Municipal Stadium of Braga, Portugal, designed by Eduardo Souto de Moura against a former stone quarry. An exhibition that "in 54 projects tells a passion and a myth collective, not only through architectural structures", explains to ANSA the director of Maxxi Architecture and Design contemporary, Lorenza Baroncelli. Here is the first Italian sports radio commentary from 1928, The Beatles' 1965 concert at Shea Stadium in New York, the dark years of the Hillsborough or Heysel accidents. Yes then relives the euphoric atmosphere of Italia '90 and with the patronage of the FIGC also includes the symbolic trophies of the history of the Italian national team, starting from the four World Cups won the two European triumphs of 1968 and 2020. The ideal appendix is the focus Il Foro Italico by Enrico Del Debbio. Classicism and modernity (until October 31st), project curated by Ariane Varela Braga and Carla Zhara Buda, co-produced by Maxxi and the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici, on the intense creative activity of Del Debbio (Carrara, 1891 - Rome, 1973). The fulcrum is the Foro Italico, where he worked for forty years from 1927 and first major intervention architectural and landscape project dedicated to sport in Italy.
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