Informal Pathways

The group SMU – research and the French writer Philippe Vasset will present at MAXXI “Informal Pathways”, a project whose protagonist is the outskirts of Rome.

Christian Hanussek, <i>Spaccateste</i>, video installazione, 9’53’’, 2013
“Informal Pathways”, is part of the project “The Independent”, conceived by Hou Hanru, Artistic Director of the MAXXI, and curated by Giulia Ferracci and Elena Motisi.
The project is dedicated to the identification and the promotion of the non-official channels which have generated an alternative to the traditional ways of “making culture, such as labs for experimentation, emerging and innovative realities, exhibition spaces, online platforms and magazines and independent  projects.
Alessandro Lanzetta, Antonella Perin, Susanna Perin, <i>Sketches on Valle Borghesiana – The illegal master plan and everyday life</i>, installazione, 2013
Top: Christian Hanussek, Spaccateste, video installation, 9’53’’, 2013. Above: Alessandro Lanzetta, Antonella Perin, Susanna Perin, Sketches on Valle Borghesiana – The illegal master plan and everyday life, installation, 2013
In the exhibition “Informal Pathways”  the curators and founders of SMU-research Antonella Perin, Susanna Perin and Alessandro Lanzetta present Sketches on Valle Borghesiana – The Illegal Master Plan and Everyday Life, a work that recounts the material and immaterial construction of Valle Borghesiana through the interconnections between power and politics, the needs of the individual citizens, and an analysis of the dynamics of residential building.
Alongside this work is the wall paper The Making of Autogestion by the artists Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber, a composition of images of Valle Borghesiana, Pantanella and Cinema America drawing inspired by the work of Aldo Rossi Architettura Assassinata. A critique of architecture but also an analysis of the potential of self-management.
Alexander Schellow, <i>Utopologies: Via Casilina, Rome</i>, disegni e animazione, 2013
Alexander Schellow, Utopologies: Via Casilina, Rome, drawings and animations, 2013
The architect Alison Crawshaw presents Flight over the Toponimi, an aerial film that documents the last phase of the unplanned urban sprawl of the outskirts of Rome.
Spaccateste by the artist, author and curator Christian Hanussek is a video that tells of the train that for 100 years has crossed the Via Casilina. A full-fledged testimony to the history of and the engine behind the development of the eastern outskirts of Rome. Artist Alexander Schellow brings a series of drawings in “pointillist” style entitled Utopologies: Via Casilina, Rome. Born from memories of the artist’s strolls along Via Casilina, they describe the practices developed by the inhabitants and the phenomena stemming from the re-formulation of the urban landscape.
Tobias Zielony, <i>C.P.A. (The Street)</i>, animazione, 2013. Courtesy Galleria Lia Rumma, Milano – Napoli
Tobias Zielony, C.P.A. (The Street), animation, 2013. Courtesy Galleria Lia Rumma, Milano – Napoli
The exhibition is completed by The C.P.A. (The Street), an animation by the photographer and artist  Tobias Zielony dedicated to the reception center for foreign minors on Via Sant’Alessio at Borghesiana. Youths who work in a difficult social and legal context by selling luminous gadgets. The intermittent lights of these objects become a metaphor of their visibility and invisibility vis-à-vis the dominant Italian culture.
Along with these works, a narrative recorded in three languages invades the exhibition space: the work of the writer Philippe Vasset describes the perspective that a neighborhood like Valle Borghesiana offers to those who live and observe from the outside of this space steeped in complexity, without, however, knowing its specific critical aspects.
Sabine Bitter/ Helmut Weber , <i>The Making of Autogestion. Occupy Ideologies</i>, b/n wall paper, 2013
Sabine Bitter/ Helmut Weber , The Making of Autogestion. Occupy Ideologies, b/n wall paper, 2013

April 2 – May 3, 2015
The Independent
Informal Pathways

curated by Giulia Ferracci and Elena Motisi
with works by Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber, Alison Crawshaw, Christian Hanussek, Alessandro Lanzetta, Antonella Perin, Susanna Perin, Alexander Schellow, Philippe Vasset, Tobias Zielony
MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo
Via Guido Reni 4A, Roma

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