The Video Library at GAM offers the public a completely updated service. Since October 27, 2006 an entirely renovated space hosts visitors and offers them the opportunity to individually or collectively consult the works. The collection of Artist Videos and the Archive of Art Documentaries have been digitalized and gathered into a system that allows users to access the entire database directly from workstations located in the rooms of the Video Library.
Due to its importance and number of works, the collection of Artist Videos represents a unique example in Italy of a sufficiently complete collection of the main currents in video art and artistic cinema from the 1960s to today. The Archive of Art Documentaries holds some of the most important examples in Italy of auteur documents dedicated to artists and movements of international art history. But the collection is constantly growing. It is as all-inclusive as possible. The acquisition standards strive for a total archive, which can guarantee future generations as many images as possible of artists at work in their studios— an archive that holds traces of their practice, their vision, and their words.
GAM dedicates to Alberto Moravia an exhibition curated by Luca Beatrice and Elena Loewenthal as part of the project “Born To Narrate. Rediscovering Alberto Moravia” that the Fondazione Circolo dei lettori has conceived and installed together with GAM and the Museo Nazionale del Cinema in collaboration with the Associazione Fondo Alberto Moravia, Bompiani editore, and the Gallerie d’Italia.
Il percorso in mostra permette di riflettere sul ruolo della pittura di paesaggio da metà dell'Ottocento fino ai primi del Novecento
Noemi Di Nucci, textile artist e designer si occupa di tessitura di arazzi su telaio verticale e orizzontale, tappeti, installazioni mixed media e scenografie teatrali. Scrive e organizza workshop basati sulla percezione visiva e sull’ arte tessile. L’incontro con Noemi Di Nucci sarà focalizzato sui lavori di Salvatore Scarpitta.
Mercoledì 8 marzo ingresso gratuito per tutte le donne alle collezioni permanenti di GAM, MAO e Palazzo Madama
In occasione del Carnevale la GAM propone un’attività dedicata a grandi e piccini ispirata al tema del ritratto e della maschera.
A film and a book, Wavelength, 1967/2003 and Cover to Cover, 1975: two works, two masterpieces in the history of cinema and artists' books.
asta benefica di illustrazioni con un battitore d’eccezione: Gipo Di Napoli, musicista e fondatore della Bandakadabra.
Il percorso nelle sale del 900 intende affrontare uno dei sentimenti universalmente riconosciuti e da sempre motivo d’indagini e rappresentazioni, l’Amore
Una sorta di viaggio nel tempo alla scoperta di vita, cultura, moda e arte del nostro passato, per tutta la famiglia.
Each workstation, designed for two users, is made up of a two-screen LCD terminal: the archive can be consulted on the first, while on the second, the selected video can be viewed full screen. The database, which can be accessed on the first monitor, was created according to today’s technological standards and complies with the latest protocols in museum archiving: video searches can be performed very easily, according to key words or by following GAM’s suggestions. The search results can be arranged according to author, year, or country.
From the list of titles that emerges from the search, users can directly decide to start a video or may choose to access from each single title additional information on the work and the artist. The consultation system, after the user inserts his personal info, will memorize past searches so that each single user, with a password, can find traces of previous searches. (The database offers suggestions that join works and in-depth info for exploring some aspects of the history of artist videos).
