CHROMOTHERAPY, Exhibition Villa Medici, Rome

closed

CHROMOTHERAPY:

The colorful photograph that makes you happy

From 28 February to 9 June 2025

Villa Medici

Viale Trinità dei Monti, 1, Rome

Closed today: open tomorrow at 09:30

Verified profile

Yellow lemon, deep blue, bright red, and brilliant orange: colors as therapy. Here is the vitamin program of the new exhibition at the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici, CHROMOTHERAPY. Color photography that makes you happy. On stage from February 28 to June 9, 2025, the exhibition curated by Maurizio Cattelan and Sam Stourdzé, traces the history of color photography throughout the 20th century through the sharp gaze of 19 artists. The exhibition itinerary, divided into 7 sections, transports us into vibrant and saturated worlds where color strikes the retina and engages the intellect. Often denigrated and rarely taken seriously, color photography has actually allowed photographers to unleash their creativity, to use their palette to repaint the world. Many have freed themselves from the documentary constraints of the photographic medium to explore the common roots of image and imagination, flirting with pop, surrealism, bling, kitsch, and baroque. The conquest of color in photography follows shortly after the invention of the medium with the first experiments for scientific purposes in the mid-19th century. In 1907, the first industrial color photographic process was developed thanks to autochrome, created by the Lumière brothers. It is the beginning of a century of chromatic experimentation: from ordinary scenes to philosophical and political reflections, color transcends the simple tool to become an essential narrative element.

From 7 October to 10 October 2026

Alberto Garutti

MAXXI, Rome

From 18 April to 1 November 2026

SAINT FRANCIS

Baldeschi Palace, Perugia

Artsupp Card: museum + exhibitions 4.00 €

From 26 February to 6 September 2026

Water

GAMeC, Bergamo

Artsupp Card: museum + exhibitions 4.00 €

From 20 March to 10 January 2027

I'm sorry, but "TAKK" is not a sentence in Italian. Could you please provide a sentence in Italian that you would like me to translate into English?

MAXXI, Rome

	opens - closes	last entry
monday	09:30 - 19:00	18:30
tuesday	Closed now
wednesday	09:30 - 19:00	18:30
thursday	09:30 - 19:00	18:30
friday	09:30 - 19:00	18:30
saturday	09:30 - 19:00	18:30
sunday	09:30 - 19:00	18:30

CHROMOTHERAPY:

The colorful photograph that makes you happy

Displayed Works

Info and hours

Other Exhibitions

in Rome

Related searches