Posts Tagged ‘: Villa Borghese’

Filippo Marignoli at Villa Borghese in Rome

Posted in Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - September 28th, 2010

Till November 21st the Carlo Bilotti Museum in the Villa Borghese Aranciera will exhibit some artworks by Filippo Marignoli, the most cosmopolitan artist of the Italian art field in the post-war period. His aristocratic and nomad soul subtract to him his notoriety. Soon in his career he moved from Italy to USA and Hawaii Islands to honor his marriage with the Hawaii Princess Kapiolani Kawananakoa.

Even though he was out of every artistic conceptualization and classic behavior, he co-operated with the biggest galleries in Europe: Bruno Sargentini in Rome and the complicated Denis Renè in Paris worked with Marignoli for his exhibitions. He showed himself in his first productions as an Informal Artist: he soon got the critics admiration thanks to his unusual use of big canvass. He was always innovating his way of paintings instead of the critics conceptualizations. (more…)

The rickshaw of Rome

Posted in Events in Rome - August 5th, 2010

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…)

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