ROME: 11 ARTISTS OFFER A ˝STRANGE COMFORT

An unusual exhibition in Rome involving eleven contemporary international artists and spread over five highly evocative Roman “sights” connected with foreign artists and writers of the past who have left their mark on the Eternal City, focusses on the theme of the “strange comfort” experienced when visiting places impreganted with memories of great authors and poets.

The exhibition offers a rare occasion to visit some lesser known monuments, like the splendid Villa Mariani in Via Ludovisi, built in 1903-1905 and the present seat of the Swiss Institute of Culture, and the baroque Franciscan College of Sant’Isodoro, run by Irish brothers. Other venues are the Keats Shelley Memorial House on the Spanish Steps, the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Via Caio Cestio, burial place of the English Romantic poets, Keats and Shelley, and many other famous foreign residents, and the Rappaport Antique Bookshop  in Via Sistina (founded in 1906). The artists whose works are on show come from widely different cultures that reflect their intimate personal interpretations of the sensation of the “Strange Comfort Afforded by the Profession”, inspired by the short story of that name by English author Malcolm Lowry, written after he visited the Keats-Shelley House in Rome in 1947.

The artists participating in the exhibition are: Brazilian Maria Thereza Alves, Canadians Nancy Davenport and Morya Davey, Ross Birrell and David Harding from Glasgow, Scotland, Cherokee Jimmie Durham from USA, Goshka Macuga from Warsaw, Poland, Italian Franco Vaccari, Dunja Herzog and C�cile Hummel from Switzerland and Danh Vo from Saigon, S. Vietnam.

The exhibition will run until the 25 September 2010.

For information: ++39.0642042620  

arte@istitutosvizzero.it                      

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www.keats-shelley-house.org    

Posted on 26 May 2010 by Editor
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