Amos Gitai's Chronicle of an Assassination Foretold at MAXXI Rome
At MAXXI in Rome, Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai presents 'Chronicle of an Assassination Foretold', an exhibition exploring the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The show features five video projections, photographs, documents, and collages derived from Gitai's documentary 'Rabin The Last Day', which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 1995 after twenty years of research. Gitai's site-specific installation creates an intense sensory experience, examining the shift from democracy to political violence in Israeli society. The exhibition, curated by Hou Anru, runs until June 5, 2016, and includes audio, video, and canvas elements that reveal the artistic process born from a traumatic event.
Key facts
- Exhibition titled 'Chronicle of an Assassination Foretold' at MAXXI Rome
- Artist Amos Gitai is an Israeli filmmaker born in Haifa in 1950
- The exhibition focuses on the 1995 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
- Gitai's documentary 'Rabin The Last Day' premiered at Venice Film Festival in 1995
- The show includes five video projections, photos, documents, and collages
- Curated by Hou Anru
- Runs until June 5, 2016
- Gitai spent twenty years researching the assassination
Entities
Artists
- Amos Gitai
- Yitzhak Rabin
Institutions
- MAXXI
- Mostra del Cinema di Venezia
- Artribune
Locations
- Rome
- Italy
- Haifa
- Israel