Great Land

A portion of the landscape served on MAXXI’s forecourt hosts the museum’s program of summer events: it is the installation by the Roman group Corte winner of YAP MAXXI 2015.

Corte, Great Land, piazza del MAXXI, Roma
The Roman group Corte won YAP MAXXI 2015 with the installation Great Land, a large clod of earth with alternating meadows and hills; it is a parallelepiped that’s 30 meters long, 9 meters wide, and 4 meters high, clad with a reflecting surface that multiplies the landscape within it infinitely.

The lawn is strewn with plants that are typical of the vegetation growing spontaneously in the countryside, as well as colorful picnic tablecloths. Some of them are fixed and hide nozzles from which water spurts out, and there is furniture made available to visitors as well. On one side of the installation is a stage hosting the events of the summer YAP FEST.

Corte, Great Land, piazza del MAXXI, Roma
Corte, Great Land, MAXXI’s forecourt, Rome

Corte’s project was chosen for its capacity to match the clarity of a project with a high rate of abstraction with the utilitarian quality of a cultural park offered to the city.

With its picnic areas and greenery Great Land is also linked to the theme of the social space of food dealt with by the exhibition “FOOD dal cucchiaio al mondo” currently underway at MAXXI, and it consolidates the value of a space that contains within the simplicity of the conceptual architecture, the gentleness of a small landscape, the immediacy of art.


Great Land, MAXXI’s forecourt, Rome
Architects: Corte
Design Team: Nicola Alicata, Cecilia Bandiera, Silvia Firmani, Massimiliano Giglietti, Michele Malagoli, Giorgio Marchese, Daniele Marcotulli, Gabriel Enrique Nariño, Arianna Nobile, Andrea Ottaviani, Giovanni Policriti, Annalaura Valitutti
Completion: 2015

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