ROME EXHIBITIONS
- Reviews of all major exhibitions taking place in Rome Italy -

Running Exhibition from June 24th to September 19th 2004
"IGOR MITORAJ"
MERCATI TRAIANEI, ROMA

MERCATI TRAIANEI and FORO TRAIANO Foro Traiano e Mercati Via IV Novembre - Roma

At Mercati Traianei of Rome opens an extraordinary exhibition dedicated to the German sculptor Igor Mitoraj (1944). The archaeological site is very suggestive: his pieces of sculptures are big fragments of classical statues covered by bandages. The works are 70 and the material used are: marble, cast iron and bronze that recalls the sense of melancholy and yearning, a constant of the works of Mitoraj. Maybe, these sculptures are the symbols and the recollections of a unknown father, a figure that summarizes the concept of the "absence". Mitoraj studies to the Academy of Art (Polonia) and here he meets his "spiritual" guide: the extraordinary dramatist Tadeusz Kantor, who teaches to him that "to put in evidence an object its better to hide this". From here the birth of his mutilated statues, that want to arouse into us the love for the beauty and the thrilling theatre of the life.

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Running Exhibition from June 1st to August 29th 2004
"ITALIA. DOPPIE VISIONI"
SCUDERIE DEL QUIRINALE, ROMA

QUIRINALE Quirinale Piazza del Quirinale - Roma

At Scuderie del Quirinale opens a photographic exhibition dedicated to history of Italy seen by the eyes of Italian and foreign photographers. This exhibition belongs to the event of the FotoGrafia, the International Festival of Rome. The title is "Italia. Doppie visioni" (Italy. The doubles visions) and shows the theme of these 112 photos: Italian fragments of our past, original foreshortenings of distant places and inner and everyday frescos of common people. The exhibition tells about 10 "thematic- places": the village of Scanno, with the photos of Henri Cartier- Bresson and Mario Giacomelli; the land of the Pianura Padana (Plain of the North of Italy) with the works of Paul Strand and Berengo Gardin; Herbert List and Mimmo Jodice who tell about the Myth of the Ancient; Venice seen by the mechanical eye of Hernst Haas and Luca Campigotto; the social-political photos, about the 1970's, of Carla Cerati and Raymond Depardon; the releases of Salgado and Giorgia Fiorio; the images of the volcano of Biasucci and Ressmeyer; the Rome of Sternfeld and Basilico, and, at the end, the photos of Massimo Vitali and Martin Parr. The catalogue of this exhibition has two article of Italian and German literature written by Francesca Sanvitale and Peter Schneider.

Opening hours: Daily from Monday to Thursday 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Tickets: 6 €; special prize 5 €
Informations: Scuderie del Quirinale, via XXIV Maggio, 16, Roma
Phone: 06/696270

Running Exhibition till 29th August 2004
"TATSUO MIYAJIMA SARAH CIRACI' KENDELL GEERS"
MACRO, Roma

The MACRO opens the summery season with three exhibitions curated by important figures of the contemporary culture: Achille Bonito Oliva for the exhibition of Tatsuo Miyajima, Katerina Gregos for Sarah Cirać and Nicolas Bourriaud for Kendell Geers. The first exhibition, Arte nel Tempo, is of the Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima (Tokyo, 1957), who proposes, into the Sale MACRO, four works: Counter Line - Horizon Blue, Floating Time in the Space, Changing Time With Changing Self e Counter Voice in Wine. The artist chooses to play with refined elements of technology: LED and IC (electric circuits). The first installation of Miyajima is into a lift and in the other rooms there are special effects with glasses, projections, lights, reflections, so the spectator has a strong involving of the all senses. Into the Sale Panorama, there is the young Sarah Cirać(Taranto, 1972), with the project Oh my God is full of stars, for the which also the Italian artist uses a series of complicated media as the projections-video, recalling 2001: Odyssey in the space; this installation reflects the artistic work of Cirać in the dream and in the science fiction. The last exhbition is of Kendell Geers (Johannesburg,1968), who, for the MACRO, has made a new project: The Forest of Suicides, that is a real forest of shattered glasses and concrete, in which the visitor must to walk filling anguish and fear.

Opening hours: Daily from Tuesday to Sunday 9 a.m-7 p.m.; festivity:9 a.m.-2 p.m. Close Monday.
Tickets: € 5,20; special price € 4,20. Free: under 18 and over 65 years
Informations: MACRO, Via Reggio Emilia 54 - 00198, Roma
Phone: 06-671070400 - Fax: 06-855409

VITTORIANO MONUMENT Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele Vittoriano Piazza Venezia - Roma

Running Exhibition till July 27th 2004
"PAUL KLEE. UOMO, PITTORE, DISEGNATORE"
Complesso del Vittoriano, Roma

At Vittoriano it's possible to visit an exhibition dedicated to Paul Klee (1879-1940). The works exhibited are 180, which show the artistic iter and the researches of Klee, from the years of Avantgarde to his death. Hans Christoph Taval and Claudio Strinati, the twice curators of this event, have selected these works reconstructing the different phases of artist's production. First: the period of the refined graphic works, where it's clear the strong presence of his first love the music; second: about 1911-1914 the discover of the colour with the friends of the Blaue Reiter, but, especially, after the travel around Tunisia; at the end, the adventure of the Bauhaus, of which he was an original and counter-current teacher and the last paintings, linked to his illness and to his ache, which became, together to the dark and deep colours, the protagonists of the final phase of Klee's life and of his work.

Opening hours: Daily from 9.30 a.m.- 7 p.m. from Monday to Thursday; Friday and Saturday 9.30 a.m. - 11 p.m.; Sunday 9.30 a.m.-8 p.m.
Tickets: 9 €; special prize 6.50 €.

Running Exhibition till September 12th 2004
"PABLO ECHAURREN"
MACRO, Roma

At Chiostro of Bramante opens an exhibition dedicated to Pablo Echaurren. The works of this event are 200 and show very well the eclectic activity of this artist who, son of Sebastian Matta, translates and proposes again, but in an original way, the spirit of Avant-gardes of XX century, creating works in which the different arts agree. The début is as painter; then, the love of artist for the different kinds of genres drives him to work for graphic and publishing projects, as the covers for Savelli ("Porci con le ali"); about '80s and '90s, Echaurren meets the metropolitan cultures and decides to used the imaginary of the strips (Frigidaire, Alter Alter, Linus, etc.), that recalls the Pop Art. In this exhibition there are: watercolours, minimalist enamels and works that are inspired by the society of the information of mass and by the cinema, TV, theatre and performances: from the covers of Lotta Continua and L''Espresso, to reviews of alternative culture, posters of music, covers of CD and records, post cards and watchs for Swatch. So, this is a good opportunity to know the whole work of Echaurren, original artist who joins the high culture with the lower culture.

Opening hours: Daily 4 p.m.-8 p.m.; on Tuesday and Thursday 4-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 4-12 p.m..
Tickets: 4 €; special price 2.50 €
Informations: Chiostro del Bramante -Via della Pace - 00186 Roma
Phone: 06-68809035