18/07/2019
03/04/2019
Painting, photography and alchemical material meet in Trasmutazioni (Transmutations), the exhibition by Luciano Boccardini and Pietro Floris that can be visited for free on the upper floor of our exhibition space during opening hours (Mon-Sun from 10:30 to 19:00). It is not necessary to book for the event. Registration, however, is recommended.The exhibition
Change of matter. Through Luciano Boccardini's artistic career it is possible to trace a continuity between the states of matter in which evaporation sublimations take place. Turn carbon dioxide into oxygen, nuclear waste into the ground, gold foam into gold and ask yourself: what can humans really do? Are the faculty of the artist or of the scientist?
Return to the man. Question yourself to understand others. Do not stop at appearances or betraying conveniences, but go further, ask yourself. With the photographs of Pietro Floris, a particular perspective is proposed in the observation of things, places and, in this exhibition, of people.
A condominium, a neighborhood, a city and the alternation of events lived by its inhabitants, who have lived there over a century, from the year of its construction shortly after the appointment of Rome as capital of the Kingdom of Italy , until today. But also small flashes of the most important things happened in the Eternal City, in Italy and in the world.
Maria Gabriella Bruni: lives mainly in Rome, even though she has always loved traveling. She taught French Language and Literature at the Liceo Tasso of the capital. Scholar of Russian and Hindi language and culture, over time she has published translations, stories, essays on the school and publications for students. She also held for them a creative writing workshop in French from 2001-2002 to 2007-2008, she collaborated with several professional magazines. She also keeps some blogs of her passions.
Michela Gambillara: professional journalist, she was born in Venice, where she graduated in Modern Literature at Ca 'Foscari University. Now a freelance consultant with the Fontego Cultural Association to talk about publishing and culture, she previously worked as an editor at various newspapers. She taught Journalism in the specialization Masters of the Universities of Rome Torvergata and Lumsa.
Primo Levi said that memory should be exercised, not commemorated. And what better way to exercise the memory than to relive it in the characters that are told, mixing their experience with the history of the Mediterranean and the Republic of Venice?