Essere MAXXI(2022)

Name: Essere MAXXI
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2022-09-14

September 14, 20221 Season · 5 Episodes

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Overview

Five masters of Italian art and culture give a masterclass inside Rome's MAXXI museum, telling their own story in their own words: the craft, the creative process, and the beginnings, encounters and setbacks behind the work.

Created by Ernesto Assante

Seasons

Season 1

5 Episodes

2022

E01

Letizia Battaglia

9/14/2022·28m

Photographer Letizia Battaglia, the first Italian woman to work as a photojournalist, looks back on a career spent documenting Palermo under the mafia and the ordinary city behind the violence.

E02

Mario Cucinella

9/21/2022·28m

Architect Mario Cucinella explains how his international studio of architects and engineers puts energy and environmental questions at the centre of every project, and how a building can carry the beauty and the resources of the place it stands in.

E03

Michelangelo Pistoletto

9/28/2022·29m

One of Italy's foremost living painters and sculptors traces the road from his beginnings in advertising, through his encounter with American pop art, to the invention of Arte Povera.

E04

Nicola Piovani

10/5/2022·26m

The Oscar-winning composer talks about what it takes to write for the screen, how he came to work with Italy's leading directors, and how music can move an audience without ever turning cheap. Addressed in large part to younger listeners.

E05

Piero Lissoni

10/12/2022·27m

Milan, New York, Paris: the designer's studio works across architecture, product design, graphics and visual communication, from private houses and yachts to residential schemes and large hotels.