Alcantara S.p.A.

In December 2022, Alcantara continued its partnership with the MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo through the fifth edition of Studio Visit. The exhibition, curated by Domitilla Dardi, featured contemporary designers interpreting works by masters in the MAXXI Architecture Collections. Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg of Space Popular explored and interpreted Aldo Rossi's work, reflecting on Rossi’s concepts of ‘urban artefact’ and ‘analogous city’ as references for the virtual city. The exhibition aimed to mirror Rossi’s ideas on the city as a sequence of spatial events and was part of the MAXXI Architecture permanent collection, open to the public from 7 December 2022 to 15 January 2023.

The partnership between Alcantara and the MAXXI National Museum of the 21st Century Arts continues with the fifth edition of Studio Visit, a program curated by Domitilla Dardi that invites contemporary designers to offer a personal interpretation of the works of the masters represented in the MAXXI Architettura collections.

It will be open to the public from December 7, 2022 to January 15, 2023. Alcantara and MAXXI (National Museum of 21st Century Arts) continue their partnership, and as the fifth installment of the "Studio Visit" series, where contemporary artists reinterpret and propose works of masters from the MAXXI Architecture Collection under the supervision of Domitilla Dardi, Space Popular will hold an exhibition themed on Aldo Rossi. The exhibition, titled "Search History," examines the concepts of Aldo Rossi's "fatto urbano" (urban thing) and "città analoga" (analog city) as references for the collective realization of contemporary virtual cities. Space Popular presents a layered loop structure with changing layers, backed by original music composed and produced by the Spanish duo San Geronimo. Visitors immerse themselves in a building made of Alcantara fabric, and by transcending limits, they make this interpretation more certain.