iMACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome · Salario-Nomentano
One, Five, Twelve. Eighty Years of Premio Strega
An "ideal library" of over a thousand volumes traces eight decades of Italy's leading literary prize, framing it as a seismograph of the country's cultural and linguistic change.
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At the entrance you're handed a small pocket book: not a catalogue, but notes and captions for every year of the prize, yours to keep. The Bellonci Foundation's director calls it "a show to read".
It's one room on MACRO's first floor, opposite the library. Along its walls run 1,023 first editions in date order from 1947: each year's twelve candidates, five finalists and one winner, hence the title. Above them, an unbroken strip of photographs follows the votes, the waiting and the poses. In the middle stands a room within the room, a diorama of Maria Bellonci's living room, where writers, publishers and artists shaped the prize, furnished with objects and artworks from her house. If the pile by your bed makes you feel guilty, this room adds 1,023 more.
Curator Maria Luisa Frisa wanted visitors to swing between reader and spectator. Entry is in the €6 MACRO ticket (€4 for ages 7 to 26); the museum is closed Mondays, and the show ends on 1 November.
No te pierdas
The first-edition timeline
Look along the walls for each year's twelve candidates, five finalists and winner in their first editions, 1,023 volumes running from 1947 to today.
The Bellonci living room diorama
In the room at the centre, look for objects and artworks from Maria Bellonci's own house, set out as the salon where the prize's writers and publishers met.
The photographic strip
Follow the unbroken band of photographs around the room: votes, waiting, poses and the small dramas of eighty years of prize nights.
The pocket caption book
Pick up the small booklet at the entrance, with notes and captions on each year of the prize, made to be kept rather than handed back.
Ideal para
- Una hora o menos
- Cultura barata
- Entendidos
Mejor evitar si
You want art on the walls: this is a room of books, photographs and a reconstructed living room.
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