On the occasion of the new exhibition program MACROFall 2010, the museum is hosting installations by Riccardo Benassi and Tomaso de Luca – winners of 6ARTISTA 2009 – in confirmation of the museum’s dedication to new generations of young artists active in Rome and of the historical relationship between MACRO and Pastificio Cerere, two important spaces for the promotion of experimentation in the visual arts.
Launched in 2009, 6ARTISTA is a prize conceived by the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere and the Associazione Civita, in collaboration with Allianz, in order to support talented young artists in the formative years of their professional development. This prize provides a one-year residency at Pastificio Cerere, a space which has seen the birth and development of the most interesting artistic practices in the capital from the 1960s through today. It is a space in which artists gather, live, and work. Its aim is to provide a place of encounter between diverse languages, ideas, and practices, such that young artists may advance the development of their poetics and consolidate their artistic language.
Riccardo Benassi is guided by his curiosity about time, space, and architecture. His work explores sensory experience and the encounter between his two great passions: sound and materials.
Tomaso De Luca‘s investigation centers on masculine identity and its expressions in the body and in space.
