Posts Tagged ‘Exhibition in Rome’

Abstractionism in Rome: an aesthetic tour in Villa Medici

Posted in Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - October 19th, 2010

Till January 2nd 2011 an exhibition called “Heaviness and Grace” will take place at the Fine Arts French Academy “Villa Medici” in Rome. The curator of the exhibition and the director of the Fine Arts Academy Eric de Chassey wants to present through five international artists artworks some interpretative and creative truths on abstractionism.

The exhibition at “Villa Medici” give to the public what Simon Weil would say about Marthe Wèry, Callum Innes, Georges Tony Stoll, Emmanuel Van der Meulen and Emanuele Becheri: the concept of “rising lowering”; the concept through which representing something means let it unrepresented; at last the deeper idea of abstractionism. All the artworks involved in “Heaviness and Grace” seems to say:” we have a shape just because of our shapeless. (more…)

Rome and the Ancient. Eyesight and reality in the XVIII century

Posted in Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - September 9th, 2010

From November 29th 2010 to March 6th 2011. The Rome Foundation Museum at Museo del Corso will host an exhibition called “Rome and the Ancient. Eyesight and reality in the XVIII century”. The exhibition wants to reenact all the strategies acted by the Roman pontiffs and by the civic governance to promote the Roman Antiquity and to make Rome a cultural center for the modern culture thanks to the attention paid by the XVIII century to the ancient models.

If the excavation activities, the monumental restoration activities with some museum and Arts Institutions creations revealed themselves as perfect tactics of a great strategy for the success of Fine Arts and Scolarship in Rome, at the same time the strong attraction produced by the comparison chances gave by the original models presence in Rome, bless Rome as an European Artistic Centre. (more…)

Teotihuacan in Rome. The pre-Columbian Exhibition Palace

Posted in International events in the Capital - July 27th, 2010

From November 9th 2010 to February 27th 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…)

Mimmo Jodice at Palazzo delle esposizioni. Experimenting with as editing with

Posted in Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - May 25th, 2010

He met photography in the ’60 with the technical prejudice of a painter and the avant-garde bravery. Mimmo Jodice will be exposed at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome till July 11th 2010.

What his poetry reveals is his thought’s power. The thought’s need born with the photographic need.

This allow the artist to create something like his Fotografia Vera (1978), a photo in which a hand have been taken in his regular size and overwritten with the words “Vera Fotografia” (Real Photo). (more…)