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De Dominicis at MAXXI in Rome

Till November 7^th some Gino De Dominicis selected artworks will be hosted at MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century’s Fine Arts in Rome. This Italian Artist, one of the most controversial Italian character after the second world war, owes his celebrity to his capacity to steer clear of any artistic movement that defined the last 50 years of the Italian history. At the mean time painter, philosopher, architect and sculptor, De Dominicis had been able to maintain an unusual lifelong mystery halo on himself.

His art, defined by a fundamental techniques trans-contamination has often a deep philosophical meaning. One example is the “Immortality second solution (The motionless Universe)”, exhibited for in 1972 at the Venice Biennial in which you can find a Down’s syndrome plagued boy in a corner seating in front of an invisible cube, a rubber ball (falling from two meters height) in the moment before his ground bounce and a stone in movement waiting for. Another philosophical artwork, or event or installation, had been the cocktail organized in Rome in 1973 to celebrate the overtaking of the Second law of thermodynamics. (more…)

Mexico in Rome with Carlos Amorales

A Carlos Amorales exhibition will take place in the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome from November 9^th 2010 to February 27^th 2011. Born in 1970, the famous Mexican artist, will exhibit his art in an unbroken continuity of six multimedia artworks, showing his production from 2006 to 2010. For his first appearance in the presence of the Italian public, Amorales will bring on stage his Liquid Archive through his artworks. This Liquid Archive represents an anthology of almost the totality of the Mexican artist’s production; it is a database of vector images gathered by Carlos Amorales since 1998: these images act as roots for the multimedia productions he lays before his public. In this way one image can be the source for a lot of multimedia productions such as video animations, paintings, sculptures or performaces: one soul for a real multi-media representation.

As the artist states in his book “Carlos Amorales: Liquid Archive, Why Fear The Future”, his artworks arise from the need to describe the troubles of living contemporaneously. Anyway what Amorales represents in his productions is not the picture of the contemporary social dynamics but an opposed escape from them: the simplify images of everyday reality become the cause of this escape towards a fantastic world. (more…)

Coppedè district: a hidden eclectic artwork in Rome

When someone says that a life is not enough to visit Rome, they refers to the big number of artworks that populate the Eternal City, not only in the ancient districts but also in the newest parts of it. Fantastic monuments and architectural works live in gone unheeded by tourists and sometimes also by tourist’s guides city’s areas. One of these wonders is the Coppedè District.

This distict, set up by 18 palaces and 27 smaller buildings, has the same name of the architect who received this commission in the 1915 form the “Società Anonima Edilizia Moderna”, a property of the financer Cerruti. This eclectic artwork, built in the Coppedè’s way, takes place in Via Doria, between the Parioli, Salario and Trieste districts. (more…)

“X-ray Guernica” in Rome

The just opened Macro Future in Rome exhibits till the end of October “X-ray Guernica”. The artwork by Ron English is hosted at the entry of the Macro on the refrigerator wall of the ex-slaughterhouse: it represent the real Picasso’s Guernica in x-ray view.

The commonly called “wallpaint” is represented by a composition of white on black skeletal figures, the Guernica’s ones, recognizable thanks to a series of paint sails around them which bring they back to the original composition. This artwork born in a allegoric form in the XX century, has been reread by Ron English with a contemporary experience consciousness that drives the new artwork to reach the infinity of the allegory, exactly what the post-contemporary artworks reach.

As a matter of fact, if the “X-ray Guernica” is an homage to the Piccasso’s artwork and to Guernica’s martyrs, in the same time it shows the need to reread the so-called “Work of Art”, breaking it down and baring it. In the same way he Ron felt the need to reset the Guernica on a new support, near our contemporary experience.

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Villa Medici in Rome makes Art of an art exhibition

Villa Medici, the French School of Fine Art in Rome, presents an exhibition, lasting till the end of September, dedicated to the visitor experience’s enrichment: he will be driven along a tour made of heterogeneous artworks by Ellsworth Kelly and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Kelly, still living, took care about the exhibition management of his unpublished artworks and about the ones of the ex school headmaster Ingres, with the help of Éric de Chassey, the today school headmaster. The exhibition wants to show the tension that ties together a figurative and pedantic production with an abstract one. Kelli’s and Chassey’s original idea was to put the viewer in the critical point of the visual contemplation, where similarities and superimpositions die to let the universal true outcropping as a truth feeling. The viewer along the Villa Medici’s tour will rebound from an artwork to another without comprehension. Reason’s faculty will be astonished between Ingres and Kelly; the heart will be satisfy by his artistic perception. (more…)

The rickshaw of Rome

Till the end of September in Rome you could rent a rickshaw as a taxi in Villa Borghese, place we’ve already talked about in the occasion of Roma si Libra fair. You could go around in the park immersed in the nature silence. This is a Rome Municipality’s initiative, one of the European early adapter for this “innovative technology”.

The Idea comes from the wish to create a synthesis between tourism and sustainability, the chance to improve that idea comes from the Chinese example of the pedal transport. So the new roman taxi service moves from Villa Borgese to Trastevere and to the small center alleys: stop using engine-driven taxis, start to pedal.

The first tourist and citizens reaction has been extraordinary: adults and children leaped up when the unusual taxis passed by them and immediately they started taking picures and asking information about. (more…)

The dolce vita is Now in Rome

From August 4^th to November 14^th 2010 an exhibition called “La dolce vita. 1950-1960. Stars and celebrities in the Italian fifties” will take place at the Traiano Markets ruins, where Klein was exhibited, in the Museum of the Imperial Fora, Rome.

In this museum will be exposed a lot of photographical and materials about the fifties Italian star worship, about the Italian dolce vita. Thanks to the LUCE Institute collaboration, who will bring to the public the historic repertory about these years , the exhibition will make you relive the fifties fairy years. Today the LUCE institute is an archive one, dedicated to the preservation and the restoring of old films and photos, but it is also a part of the Italian history as the fifties have been. The Institute had been founded by a journalist, Giuliano di Feo, who created it to teach the people to read and write by images. In the 1925 become the unique propoaganda and educational media serving Fascism and Italy. In 1935 The Institute released the LUCE’s newsreel who had to be put before every film screening. (more…)

Marcellus Theatre hosts Music Festival in Rome

The “Nations Music Festival. Roman night at Marcellus Theatre” will take place at the foot of the Monument in Rome every August and September night as a part of the Roman Summer Festival.

The wonderful scenery of the Theatre, today situated between the Vittoriano compound and the Synagogue, will host a everyday classic music festival executed by a lot of high-profile artists. This is the last of twentytwo successful editions.

The lighthouse will enlight the Theatre facade, as in every roman night, but in August nights this magical atmosphere will be enriched by some magical musical themes as the ones of Debussy, Chopin, Mozart, Messiaen, Shubert, Beethoven for example.

A unique emotion will bring you away from your age to a magical gentle synthesis, built on the roman empire ruins and sustained by some unreachable composers notes. (more…)

Teotihuacan in Rome. The pre-Columbian Exhibition Palace

From November 9^th 2010 to February 27^th 2011 Central American’s pre-Columbian population will invade Rome. For the first time at Palazzo delle Esposizioni will be exposed the finds of the pre-Columbian population of Teotihuacan. The exhibition is called “Teotihuacan. The city of gods”.

Maybe you’re wondering: what’s Teotihuacan? We are talking about the Middle America’s capital city of pre-atzechian populations. The city, founded in the II century, and his culture acquired a great in all the today Mexico area. Some attestation reveal that the city population grew up in a few decade to 200.000, reaching his strength peak between 150 and 450 a.d., when the Teotihuacan dominance outreached the today’s Mexico confines.

The Teotihuacan culture shined artistically. This population created his original styles but integrated with imported materials and techniques. The cultural influence of the Teotihuacan culture got to the Great Nord: this attestation comes from some lithics material found in the Teotihuacan city: they will be exposed at Palazzo delle Esposizioni. (more…)

August in Rome: find out the hidden City wonders

From August 21^st to October 23^rd 2010 in Rome some archeological monuments will be opened to the public for the first time from their discovering dates. We said in advance, some time ago, that some historical monuments would be night-opened on Saturday between the mentioned dates as Coliseum and Terme di Caracalla. As we said at Terme di Caracalla you should attend to same Lyrics Operas performed by the Opera’s Theatre of Rome. In the same weeks in predeterminated dates you should also visit never-visited part of the Coliseum.

From August 21^st new archeological areas will be opened to the public access in Rome: Livia’s House in Palatino and Romolo’s Temple in Foro Romano.

Livia’s House, dated back to the I century b.c., has been found in Napoleonic ages. Thanks to some lead pipings delivering the Iulia Augusta’s name, we can understand that the house was a Augustus wife property. Now the house is below the ground level but it is still preserving his original structure and some wonderful frescos: the tablino central kiosk represent Io, loved by Zeus, rescued from Argo by Mercury. On the kiosk’s left side we can see a fresco representing a window looking at everyday life scenes and finally on the central wall the Nymph Galatea on a see horse flying away from Polifemo. Other wonderful Egyptian and Roman decoration enriched this unbelievable find. (more…)