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Series · 2022–2022Ended

Essere MAXXI

1 season·5 episodes·28 min avg.·Italy

Five masters of Italian art and culture give a masterclass inside Rome's MAXXI museum, telling their own story in their own words: the craft, the creative process, and the beginnings, encounters and setbacks behind the work.

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Letizia Battaglia
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Sep 14, 2022

Photographer Letizia Battaglia, the first Italian woman to work as a photojournalist, looks back on a career spent documenting Palermo under the mafia and the ordinary city behind the violence.

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Mario Cucinella
Mario Cucinella
Sep 21, 2022

Architect Mario Cucinella explains how his international studio of architects and engineers puts energy and environmental questions at the centre of every project, and how a building can carry the beauty and the resources of the place it stands in.

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Michelangelo Pistoletto
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Sep 28, 2022

One of Italy's foremost living painters and sculptors traces the road from his beginnings in advertising, through his encounter with American pop art, to the invention of Arte Povera.

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Nicola Piovani
Nicola Piovani
Oct 5, 2022

The Oscar-winning composer talks about what it takes to write for the screen, how he came to work with Italy's leading directors, and how music can move an audience without ever turning cheap. Addressed in large part to younger listeners.

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Piero Lissoni
Piero Lissoni
Oct 12, 2022

Milan, New York, Paris: the designer's studio works across architecture, product design, graphics and visual communication, from private houses and yachts to residential schemes and large hotels.

Cast

5 credited
LB
Letizia Battaglia
Self
MC
Mario Cucinella
Self
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Self
Nicola Piovani
Self
PL
Piero Lissoni
Self

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