Essere MAXXI

Season 1

2022 · 5 episodes · 2h 18m in all

Episodes

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   1. Letizia Battaglia

   14 Sept 2022 · 28 min

   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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   2. Mario Cucinella

   21 Sept 2022 · 28 min

   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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   3. Michelangelo Pistoletto

   28 Sept 2022 · 29 min

   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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   4. Nicola Piovani

   5 Oct 2022 · 26 min

   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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   5. Piero Lissoni

   12 Oct 2022 · 27 min

   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.