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Visit of the temporary exhibition "Effetto museo. Intrusioni istantanee nei luoghi dell'arte", Photography by Massimo Pacifico curated by Claudio Di Benedetto, from Januay 21 to March 4, 2019.It is possible to book the cumultative ticket Rucellai Chapel + Temporary Exhibition "Museum Effect. Instantaneous intrusions in places of art" clicking here.
Visit to the Temporary Exhibition "Museum Effect"
Available times: Mondays, Saturdays and Sundays from 10am to 7pm. Tickets are valid for the entire day with last entry at 6:30pm.
Reduced price ticket up to 14 years old.
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Notes:
- Attention! The reservation for entry to the Rucellai Chapel is
mandatory and not able to be modified. Any errors in the selection of
the date and/or time cannot be refunded.
- No reduced tickets are available online.
- Free tickets are available ONLY at the museum TICKET WINDOW:
- Children under 6 years of age
- 1 free ticket for the companion of each disabled visitor
- Military/Police/Fire ecc., provided that access takes place for a specific reason of service.
- Journalists is possession of a press pass by the foreign press in Italy, or the national association of journalists in Italy
- Members of ICOM, EDUMUSEI with membership card.
Effetto Museo. Intrusioni istantanee nei luoghi dell’arte
Photography by Massimo Pacifico
curated by Claudio Di Benedetto
January 21 – March 4 2019
The exhibition
Selected from the numerous photos that make up Massimo Pacifico’s
archive, the shots exhibited in this show offer us a chance to “look at
those looking” at the works of art, the visitor that “inhabits” the
museum.
As observers, through the privileged lens of Massimo Pacifico, we are
given an undisturbed look at the emotions that pulse through the people
visiting the museums: laughter and sentiment, joy, sometimes expressed
through a dancing motion or bounce in the step ‑ those who have
abandoned themselves, as the young mother and her child visiting the
Victoria & Albert Museum in London; the boredom and numbness that
seem to capture some university students, perched on the sofa at the
Städelsches Kunstinstut in Frankfurt; or the visitor intent on
sleeping, lying on the seats of a room in the Neue Pinakothek in
Munich.
Massimo Pacifico thus insinuates himself in the lives of visitors he
meets while traveling. Sometimes with irony and always with great
discretion and sensitivity, he captures their gestures and expressions
while they are intent to observe, ignore, or mimic statues and
paintings around them. If in Glyptothek in Munich the drama of the
monumental classical sculptures seems to be ignored by the man absorbed
in reading a book, of a different intensity is the involvement of a
young visitor of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, who, at the sight of a
painting where the nun, Geertrury Haeck, dead, kneels in adoration of
St. Agnes, reacts with tears of pure emotion.
From the Metropolitan Museum in New York to the Mercedes Benz Museum in
Stuttgart, from the Prince of Wales Museum in Mumbai to the Modern Art
Museum in Barcelona, Lipzieg, Milan, from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
al Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Pacifico’s snapshots add a
visual experience, perfoming a completely original and interactive
museum “visit”.
Massimo Pacifico was born in
1951 in Sulmona, in the region of Abruzzo, the birth city of the latin
poet Ovid. After a classical primary education he obtained the Laurea
in Political Science at the University of Florence. Since 1977, he is a
professional photographer and journalist, and he has always turned his
lens on people that he encountered during his frequent trips around the
world. An author of many books and articles, Pacifico has exhibited in
numerous international museums and directed magazines, such as VERVE (2006‑2010) and BOGART (2011); he is currently
director of the online magazine BARNUM.