19/10/2009 - MAXXI 2per100

The jury of international competition MAXXI 2per100 was selected among 11 finalists, the two winning projects: the work on the inner atrium designed by Maurizio Mochetti and work for the area outside of Massimo Grimaldi. The two works will be carried out by MAXXI National Museum of the XXI Century Arts, the state's first museum dedicated to contemporary designed by Zaha Hadid, to be launched in the spring of 2010 in Rome. The jury - made by Pio Baldi, Chairman of the Foundation maxx; Annamaria Tato representing the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport; Anna Mattirolo, director MAXXI Art; Gianluca Racan, on behalf of Studio Zaha Hadid, Mario Codognato, general curator of the museum MOTHER of Naples artist Alfredo Jaar and Giuseppe Penone - met on 5 October and evaluated, with a broad comparison, the 11 finalists based on criteria in the notice: artistic quality and originality of the proposal, consistency and appropriateness with architectural spaces, the technical feasibility, durability and ease of maintenance. The performance of two works of art for the MAXXI provides a total of 1,130. 000.00 euros, divided into 430,000.00 euros for the work of the atrium inside and 700.000,00 Euro for the work of the outside. For the indoor atrium Mochetti Maurizio (Rome, 1940) has devised straight line of light in hyperspace curvilinear, that according to the jury, "best interprets the spatial interior of the museum project, introducing color elements. A production of light and sculptural elements, essential and at the same time striking deals with the relationship between the visitor and the place, becoming the second artist a "barometer of space." For your outside Champion's Pediatric Emergency Center in Juba Supported by MAXXI Massimo Grimaldi (Taranto, 1974), of which the jury "appreciates the originality of the idea that produces a work of art photography through a project which also has a high social and ethical content. The pictures, taken in progress, documenting all phases of construction and beginning operation of the new Emergency Hospital in Juba in Sudan, which will be made using 92% of the amount specified in the invitation, creating a report that will be shown in double video projection on an outer wall of synchronous MAXXI. In this way, says the artist, "the pediatric center in Juba and will be ideally combined MAXXI by their architecture, one born to the other half." The project involves the construction of a health center within the Program Regional and pediatric cardiac surgery in an area inhabited by 300 million people. The Center will offer free and highly specialized pediatric care to children under 14 years of age; team of cardiologists regularly conduct missions screening cardiac patients to be transferred to the Salam Center for Cardiac Surgery in Khartoum for intervention. Alessandro Bertani, vice president of Emergency, said: "The collaboration with the Emergency Massimo Grimaldi was born from deep sharing of common values and has already materialized in the past in works that testify to the fact that hospitals and nursing facilities of Emergency in some African countries: Sierra Leone, Sudan and Central African Republic. Emergency Massimo Grimaldi is grateful to the artist and the museum MAXXI for having decided to share an important project: to ensure the right to care for children and adults who would have no opportunity to be assisted effectively and freely. " Pio Baldi, Chairman of the Foundation MAXXI, is satisfied with the conclusion of the competition and says that "the realization of the two works is inserted in full continuity with the cultural project that will increase the museum's collections of contemporary art and architecture with site-specific works. "The competition, launched in October 2008 by the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport, in consultation with the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, has had worldwide resonance, confirming, one year after the inauguration Journal, the role of First plan that the new museum will have in the international arena as well as national. Of the 554 applications received, 370 were Italian citizens and 184, almost half of foreign artists from 47 different countries of 5 continents. The competition uses the law 717 of 1949, known as the Law of 2%, "according to which government departments and public bodies that provide for the construction of public buildings must be allocated to the production of works of art there at least 2% of the total expenditure planned in the project.