On the occasion of the 19th Giornata del Contemporaneo promoted by AMACI, the Accademia dei Virtuosi presents new donations by its current artists in the context of the historical collection preserved in the attic of the Pantheon.

The Accademia’s collection consists of approximately 270 artworks, paintings and sculptures, dating from the first half of the 16th century to the early 20th century, as well as numerous architectural drawings.

The collection is an expression of a variety of topics and genres and has been built up through the centuries thanks to donations from its members and the activity of academic competitions.

The collection does not respond to classificatory or museographic criteria. It evokes ancestral forms of collecting, conceived as an anthropological and religious phenomenon; namely, this collecting aimed at preserving the traces of one's ancestors and 'accumulating' as a principle of self-assertion.

The tradition of a donation by the Virtuosi to the Accademia has enabled it to maintain an active relationship with the present and to continue to grow the collection.

On October 7th, on the occasion of the 19th Giornata del Contemporaneo promoted by AMACI, the Accademia Gallery, located in the attic of the Pantheon, will for one day only open its doors to the public to present the new donations of some of its contemporary artists.

The tour will take place along the parallelepiped placed behind the tympanum and above the vault of one of Rome's most solemn monuments.
Passing through the gallery, a setting filled with diverging stylistic codes and intermingled languages, the viewer will move between recent presences and memories intertwined in multiple stories that can develop in terms of form, theme and technique.


In this interplay of warps and reverberations between existing signs and new grafts of works, the visitor will be guided on a journey that fosters the individual's perceptive sensitivity and the shared values between 'things', without visual interruptions, hierarchies or time.

The invitation to visitors is not to dwell slavishly on the individual pieces, but to move around the reflections, the transparencies, and the coloured palpitations created between the artworks as well as between human action and matter.

The gallery will become a place of research on subtle and imperceptible visions, assonances and dissonances, a silent symphony between the objects and the space that hosts them. This exploration is united by a sense of belonging to a unique tradition that tells a story still in progress.

Works by:
Elisabetta Benassi/Pedro Cano/Angelo Casciello/Giuseppe Ducrot/Sidival Fila/Bruno Liberatore/Enzo Orti/Luca Pace/Mimmo Paladino/Giuseppe Penone/Oliviero Rainaldi/Ugo Riva/Lucia Romualdi/Sandro Sanna/Marco Tirelli