This first exhibition is dedicated to Ettore Spalletti, which inaugurates the MAXXI L’Aquila and his is one of the eight works that have been commissioned to as many artists for this occasion. Spalletti chose the chapel and created one of his most moving and successful works which will remain in the museum permanently. In the small chapel on the first floor, the artist inserted a column in the center of the space in conjunction with the lantern of the dome above. A column of light that slants upwards solidifies into a perfect cylinder: thought, space, light.
The whole exhibition takes place on these premises, placing the site-specific works in dialogue with works from the MAXXI collection of art, architecture and photography.
The balance point is a statement: it has an ethical and aesthetic, political and social meaning. In a period of great upheavals, emergencies, dramas, uncertainty, confusion, art helps us to find a point of balance, an existential stability that in this case reflects on a concrete abstraction, the abstraction of a thought that is it makes real in form, light and space.
A path where the works interact with the context that surrounds them - with the architecture, the city, the landscape - and which reflect on the value and meaning of balance understood as the moment in which all the forces that intervene on a structure in a given instant they impart the same opposing force, canceling each other out: a break in tension, the moment of art and the founding principle of architecture. The works enter on tiptoe, silent and with respect for the place, its past and recent history, and connect with the building, the entire city and the territory to imagine other balances between the forces that govern the world.
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TICKET :
full ticket: € 7.00
reduced ticket: € 5.00
Young people aged 14 to 25 (not completed); groups of 15 or more; journalists registered with a valid identification card; ticket holders for the Jewish Museum of Rome; holders of admission tickets to the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art; with exhibition of the identification card or badge: Costume & Moda Academy, Photographic Academy, Italian Association of Ambassadors of Taste and Family, Atac, Arsity, Libraries of Rome, International Women's House, Roman Center of Photography and Cinema, Experimental Center of Cinematography, members of the National Council of Architects, ENAV, Enel, FAI - Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Francesco Olgiati ONLUS, employees of the GSE Group, IED - European Institute of Design, IN / ARCH - National Institute of Architecture, Pantheon Design & Technology Institute, ISFCI - Institute Superior of Photography, Sapienza University of Rome, LAZIOcrea, Lazio Innova, NABA - New Academy of Fine Arts, Photographic Workshops, Order of Social Assistants, Order Psychologists Lazio, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Pro Loco members, Romaeuropa Festival, RUFA - Rome University of Fine Arts, National Academy of Santa Cecilia, International School of Comics, Eliseo Theater, Olympic Theater, Op Theater era of Rome, Teatro di Roma, University of Rome Tor Vergata, UniCamillus University in Rome, Youthcard, Card Feltrinelli.
free ticket:
Residents in the Municipalities of the Abruzzo Region (until 31 December 2021); holders of the myMAXXI membership card; children under 14; disabled people who need a companion; MiBACT employees; tour leaders and tour guides from the European Union, licensed (ref. circular no. 20/2016 DG-Museums); 1 teacher for every 10 students; ICOM members; AMACI members; accredited journalists; University students and researchers of Art and Architecture on Thursdays and Fridays (excluding holidays); on your birthday by presenting an identity document.

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