A MAPPING OF ITALY
A cultural and artistic exploration of the territory through some of Italy’s most beautiful mosaic icons: a set of fragments that, assembled and coordinated in a visual and audio story-telling language - and through different media - reconcile individual stories with collective ones and vice versa. Attention is focused not only on the cultural assets described and individual artistic expressions, but also, and even more so, on the underlying territory and the relationships, the intangible knowledge, and the legends and symbols it is home to.
THE EXHIBITION STATIONS
In a journey touching on :
- Rome
- Pompeii
- Aquileia
- Ravenna
- Palermo
- Monreale
- Piazza Armerina
- Baiae
In a narrative embracing the different sites and the Farnesina Collection, the stories of the ancient, the modern and the contemporary worlds unfold.
True theatrical stage machines whose surfaces are clad with novel marvels: gold, symbols and allegories, domes, walls and floors, lit up by a polychromy of tesserae, populated by characters, starry skies and constellations, arabesques, dolphins, labyrinths and battles that give the visitor's eyes a sense of reverential bewilderment.
