Allow us to welcome into the Farnesina Collection “A Lecture on Martian History” (2021) by Maurizio Cannavacciuolo. The artwork, in polychrome ceramic panels, has a total surface area of 15 metres, was made in collaboration with the Faenza-based ‘Ceramica Gatti 1928’ and installed in the entrance hall of the Farnesina.
The artist has created a site-specific version of one of his most important works, which was exhibited on the façade of Boston’s Isabella Stewart-Gardner Museum, and that was drawn from the fantasy tale of the colonization of the Earth by the Martians. With his usual irony and eclecticism, the artist portrays a professor – a hybrid between a human and Martian – while presenting some scenes of post-invasion life on Earth.
Maurizio Cannavacciuolo (Naples 1954), “A Lecture on Martian History” (2021)
Ceramic, cm 600 x 243
