ROME EXHIBITIONS AT SCUDERIE DEL QUIRINALE
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Running Exhibition from June 1st to August 29th 2004
"Imago Urbis Romae"
PALAZZO DEI CONSERVATORI, 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.

"ITALIA-RUSSIA ATTRAVERSO I SECOLI. DA GIOTTO A MALEVIC. LA RECIPROCA MERAVIGLIA"
SCUDERIE DEL QUIRINALE, ROMA

Two geographically distant countries meet and compare each other thanks to the odd and complex world that forms and gives life to arts here represented by painting. This is the main theme of the Automn exhibition which has been opened at Scuderie del Quirinale with works by Giotto representing Italian Pre-Renaissance , and by Malevic ,one of the most important figure of Russian avant-gardes. Almost ninetey invaluable works like Rublev and Dionisij icons, and Chagall and Kandinskij paintings are present at the exhibition thanks to many Russian museums, which for the first time , have consented to lend them. The exhibition is devided into four sections In the first one, the title of which, is In principio era Bisanzio are present Russian icons. They tell the art history of a country, which, through images, has chosen to explain it by using symbolism and religious teaching ; in juxtaposition with that , we can see the experimental path of Italian artists like Giotto, Coppo di Marcovaldo, Duccio di Boninsegna. In the second section, Verso le identità moderne, works of our Renaissance to Baroque are shown (Mantegna, Guido Reni, Domenico Fetti, Pietro da Cortona, and so on..); and besides them, we can admire the Russian artists skill in describing sacred images. The historical turning point can be seen during Peter the Great time (here represented in the section L'età dei Lumi , who, through a political and cultural action , gathers Italian artists and architects in St. Petersburg Court. Their works are present in many important Russian private collections. In the section Il secolo della borghesia. Dal Romanticismo al Simbolismo and in Sfide della modernità fra democrazia e pensiero we can see the ultimate and crucial union between the two cultures looking with interest and curiosity at Europe.