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Miriam Cahn: Ciò che mi guarda
The Swiss artist's first major museum retrospective in Italy: 100+ works from the late 1970s on, anchored by the room installations Herumliegen and Familienraum, exploring the body, war and desire.
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An intermittent metallic sound repeats through the main hall in a set pattern. The critic Luisa Sisti says it exasperates the visual fragility of the works on the walls, and it keeps you slightly on edge from the first room.
Miriam Cahn, born in Basel in 1949, has spent fifty years on the body, violence, desire, vulnerability and war. This is her first major museum retrospective in Italy: over 130 works from the late 1970s to the present, grouped by theme rather than date. Architect Didier Fiúza Faustino built two geometric constructions of three blocks that act as screens, hiding and revealing what hangs behind them.
Tickets are €6 and cover all of MACRO's current shows. The museum is closed Mondays, and last entry is 30 minutes before the 19:00 close. The show runs until 15 November.
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Miriam Cahn's first major museum retrospective in Italy: more than 100 works from the late 1970s on, with the room installations Herumliegen and Familienraum.
Look for
Herumliegen (2022)
A room installation made after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, built from repeated images of abandoned bodies, so that repetition does the denouncing.
Familienraum (1996-2009)
Twelve oil paintings and four drawings of family members as abstract portraits, or as views of interior landscapes.
The atomic-bomb watercolours
Intensely coloured watercolours from the 1980s and 1990s, with atomic weapons as their subject.
The early charcoal and chalk drawings
Large works on paper from the start of her career, with nudes Sisti calls disproportionate, vulnerable and exposed.
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- Cheap Culture
- Out-Of-Town Guests
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You want a light visit: the subject is war, violence and exposed nude bodies.
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- Miriam Cahn: Ciò che mi guardaMACRO, Rome
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- Hank Willis Thomas & Man Ray: Tomorrow I shall contradict myselfPhoto: Giorgio Benni
- MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of RomeAlbarubescens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Galleria BorgheseAlessio Damato, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Galleria Continua Romarandreu, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
- National Roman Museum - Palazzo MassimoRicardalovesmonuments, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0