The MaXXI museum in Rome is hosting a very unique show until September 20 that features over 300 works unified not by language or historical affiliation, but by a vision of life. "Tragicomic. Perspectives on Italian Art from the Second Half of the Twentieth Century to Today" brings to the MaXXI in Rome, from April 2 to September 20, an original and transversal reading of the art of the last eighty years, subject to the scrutiny of an exquisitely Italian ability not to embrace catastrophe, but to dilute it in laughter, paradox, irony, grotesque, absurd, anti-heroic postures, never dogmatic and always open, in other words, tragicomic. As a result, the works of Gino De Domincis, Piero Manzoni, Alighiero Boetti, Giovanni Anselmo, Gilberto Zorio, Enzo Cucchi, Maurizio Cattelan, Vincenzo Agnetti, Mirella Bentivoglio, Tomaso Binga, Roberto Cuoghi, Luciano Fabro, Lucio Fontana, Giuseppe Penone, Paola Pivi, Gianfranco Baruchello, Carol Rama, Liliana Moro, Elan Bellantoni, Monica Bonvicini, Piero Golia, and many others emerge. The exhibition's curators are Andrea Bellini, director of the Centre d'Art contemporain Genève, and Francesco Stocchi, creative director of the MaXXI. "To properly appreciate the tragicomic", added the latter, "it is necessary to look beyond the boundaries of the visual arts and realize the function of figures who work in other realms of the imagination. Totò and Eduardo De Filippo represent two fundamental junctions in this regard: their work establishes a shared language in which misery, failure, and injustice are neither denied nor sublimated, but rather represent the core of the representation, continuously traversed by comedy. In cinema, Italian comedy contributes to the propagation of this attitude as a common language, in which the tragic of social experience is constantly crossed and formed on a daily basis. Even in terms of art, one of our recurring habits is the ability to convey tragedy through irony and paradox".