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Throughout the centuries there’s been frequent massacres of artists, philosophers, thinkers, writers, scientists and activists who have been sentenced to death for defending their ideals with strength and coherence, for having carried out their personal struggles against a society that censored them with violence.

From that fact, the exhibition ‘Undressed of flesh’ tries to represent some of these famous people with pictorial language, conferring an artistic dimension to the tragic events of history (also recent history). And so, Antonello Morsillo, an Italian artist who lives and works in Rome, decided to concentrate his recent production on the history of these famous disappeared people, making a last exhibition as a tribute to upstream thinking and condemning denied freedom.

Morsillo was born in southern Italy, in Foggia, and since he was a teen he took interest in illustration, beginning to make characters for cartoons. Years later, in Rome, he was to obtain his degree in graphic advertising, drawing and painting. His first individual exhibition was the publication of a catalogue in 2002. For four years Morsillo worked with SonyBMG and this experience allowed him to establish himself definitively as an illustrator thanks to the making of album covers for popular Italian singers, such as Milva, Patty Pravo and Luigi Tenco.

But it’s with the exhibition ‘Undressed of flesh’ that Morsillo reaches a new era in his artistic development, uniting illustration and painting and a deep theoretical investigation. This way, he makes a pictorial and conceptual route that takes us to the murders of Federico García Lorca, Giordano Bruno, Sophie Scholl, Matthew Shepard, Gandhi and many more.

And so, Morsillo chose Ipazia, a mathematician, astronomer and philosopher from ancient Greece who was literally cut to pieces by a group of Christians, and he represents her pregnant, as the mother of science. We also find Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Italian writer and film director who was murdered in 1975 by a ‘ragazzo di vita’ (child of life) and he’s represented with open arms, simulating a flight from his ‘crucifixion’. There’s also Giordano Bruno, who doesn’t have a mouth in the painting but slight marks instead that seem to slowly give him back his words, and Sophie Scholl (leader and activist of the anti-Nazi movement ‘White Rose’), represented with a white rose in her mouth, tied by a string of thorns that condemns silence.

The exhibition can be visited until the 17th of February at the Rodari Library, located on Via Francesco Tovaglieri 237/a (00169). The opening times are from Monday to Friday from 9am till 7pm, Saturday from 9am till 1.30pm and closed all day Sunday. You’ll find more information on this webpage: www.artribune.com/dettaglio/?type=event&id=7619

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Until the 29th of April, the Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Roma-MACRO exhibits, at the Centro di produzione culturale, the work of the American photographer Steve McCurry. The exhibition is a tribute to one of the most important exponents of contemporary photojournalism, obtaining on various occasions the World Press Photo Award, considered the most important award in this field.

The work of McCurry has become a reference point for those who like photojournalism. Both he and his work are well known in Italy, becoming a reference for many young people who see the events of our time through his photographs. This reason has brought the MACRO Museum to make this exhibition that symbolizes a tribute of the Italian people to McCurry and his work.

The exhibition is commissioned by Fabio Novembre, who has taken the 200 best works made by McCurry of his 30 year career. Despite that the presentation of the young Afghan woman with green eyes in the exhibition is inevitable, there will also be some more recent works that gather the period between 2009 and 2011. Among the works that will be exhibited there will be photographs taken in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma), that include a spectacular series dedicated to Buddhism. There will also be some unknown work of his taken in Cuba.

Steve McCurry was born in 1950 in Philadelphia, United States. His start in photojournalism took place in a local newspaper. His first incursion outside the United States was in India, where he made an interesting tour to observe and capture the complex world of castes and misery in the middle of scenic and aesthetic beauty, given by the landscape and ancestral culture. In 1978 he moved to Afghanistan to make photojournalism and he stayed there covering the conflict until 1992. However, the work that took him to stardom in journalism and photography is the photograph ‘Afghan Girl’, that appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine in 1985 and which was reproduced in all the media of the time and the years after that, being considered as one of the most important images of the 20th century that has appeared in reports, posters, leaflets and all kinds of printed media.

The ‘Afghan Girl’ is a photograph of Sharbat Gula, a 12 year old girl of the Pashtun tribe who was in a refugee camp in Pakistan. Her name he got to now 20 years later when he went back to the area and found her at the age of 30, with the pain of war reflected on her face.

His work has taken place in war fronts such as Beirut, Cambodia, Afghanistan and the surrounding areas, Kuwait, the former Yugoslavia and the Balkans. McCurry’s photographs tell us the horrors of war and the loss of the limits of reason that happen during these conflicts.

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http://www.macro.roma.museum/mostre_ed_eventi/mostre/steve_mccurry

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Having the perception of Rome as an old woman who lies on a huge velvet couch, adorned with flowers and fruits as a marble horizon hides behind silk curtains, is a huge mistake. Rome wears miniskirt, has sneakers, and is not necessarily a woman, goes out very late on the street, listening to rock, eats on the street and of course is modern. Rome has a large and youthful alternative culture able to catch you from many aspects. If you are looking for art, fashion, creativity and adventure, Rome certainly has everything you want.

First of all, Rome is definitely a super “gay friendly” city, where you can find hundreds of bars, discos and saunas for the LGBT community to prove it. If you are gay or lesbian or whatever you like to be, you will find a community in Rome offering effervescent parties, romance and dance evenings. Europe Multi Club, Skyline and L’Apeironare, are some names you’d like to remember for you next visit.

For the rockers, indie rockers and metalheads, there is nothing better than the Roman music scene full of underground and alternative concerts, as well as multiple vinyl shops scattered around town, where you can find music from all music styles. Have in mind that in Italy there is  a long tradition of progressive rock that comes from the 70′s, and there are many older editions of this kind that you can find in stores like Elastic Rock, Goodfellas and Just Like Heaven.

Similarly, if what you like is fashion and the “street wear”, going “shopping” indiscriminately throughout the day and find the best of the season models, Rome offers an intense fashion culture, not only developed in the prestigious shops of course, but in its streets where there are risky young people, following some of the “hipster” trends and bringing you a sophisticated personal touch of beauty and attitude to the city. Find the rare and “vintage” at good prices in the shops around Termini, Porta Portese market on Sundays, as well as Testaccio market.

If it comes to contemporary art and new trends including the  last tendencies of Italian art, just start your tour at MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, where you will find a large and diverse collection, considered to be one of  the best art museums of contemporary world. This museum also receives information from galleries and emerging artists in central Rome.

Rome maintains a youthful face even though the conventional tours never show it. Explore the city at your own pace and style, Rome is a city that continues to change and daring to be fresh and modern in Europe.

Alexa Ray

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Hidden behind the famous stairway of Piazza di Spagna, there is a small street where the city noise disappears and the flowers scent fulfill your nostrils, where local artisans are mixed with chic boutiques, art galleries and lively restaurants to relive the years of the Dolce Vita. All this and more is via Margutta.

Located in Campo Marzio, called the “the foreigners’ district” by Fellini, it was once a street full of stables for the palaces in the vicinity. In the Middle Ages, an unknown craftsman opened the first workshop, it was gradually emerging a booming industry, attracting artists from around the world. In 1855, commissioned by the Marchese Francesco Patrizi, a palace was erected at number 54, which was equipped with studios for artists to live and work in them. Some of its illustrious guest were: Picasso, Stravinsky and Puccini.

In 1953, the seventh art made it tremendously popular, as the acclaimed film “Roman Holiday” was filmed on it. The character Gregory Peck (played by Joe Bradley) had his apartment here. The street became an exclusive area where celebrities like Truman Capote, Federico Fellini and his great love, actress Giulietta Masina live, ranked No. 110, which may be a humorous plaque with their names.

That same year, the exhibition “Cento Pintori via Margutta” (one hundred Margutta street painters) was born, an initiative of some painters who wanted to bring life to a street that had always been natural refuge for artists. It’s an outdoor exhibition, open to everyone, which presents more than 1000 pieces of national and foreign authors carefully selected. It is distinguished by an outlet for new artists and is a great opportunity for art lovers. Since then, takes place once a year in late October.

Walking across the little buildings full of ivy, you can find the Fontana delle Arti (Fountain of the arts), a unique marble fountain designed by the architects Pietro Lombardi in 1927. It is a triangular base topped by a bucket of brushes with two masks in homage to the artists who frequented the area in the seventeenth century. The masks, one sad and one happy, make reference to the fluctuating mood of the artists.

Among the local businesses in this small paradise in the center of Rome, stand out a handmade leather shop, whose prices are high, but it is also the quality of its products, a furniture store with decorative articles of the 20′s, and a Gianni Bulgari- jewelry store with unique pieces. There is also an ancient marble craft business. Its plates can be purchased already made or ask to chisel out the text you want. The friendly owner normally offers a plate of pasta to customers.

If you want to extend your walk, you can get close to the renowned Spanish Steps. At your feet, you can enjoy the Fontana delle Barcaccia, a striking 1627 sculpture. Climbing the stairway, you will find the church of Trinita dei Monti, a Gothic jewel whose frescoes are worth visiting.

Image by Lalupa (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons.

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The city of Rome, and in particular the beautiful Complesso del Vittoriano, will host during the entire month of January the exhibition “Perfect Harmony”, by the great Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944). This important retrospective, which will be open until the 29th of January, presents a comprehensive tour of the artist’s work, through about 70 paintings and drawings, along with some forty works of other artists who influenced more significantly his work. Thus, by walking through the artistic development of Piet Mondrian, in the exhibition “Perfect Harmony” is possible to get to know the evolution of formal and conceptual investigation of one of the most important artists of the twentieth century.

Mondrian was undoubtedly best known for the rectangular structures of his last works, he actually began his artistic production because of his fascination by the Dutch landscape around him. It was only later that he began to investigate the alleged “essential knowledge”, trying to reduce the representation to its more intimate and necessary lines, eliminating all plastic items considered superfluous. His purpose was ambitious: by using geometry, he intended to find the basic structure that moves the entire universe. To achieve this goal, he deleted the curves, the nuances and the figurative representation (which he considered misleading) and even got to prohibit the presence of green in his home. For the extreme simplicity of his last works, those who came to understand the deeper meaning that was hidden in the structure -indeed very simple – in his paintings have often trivialized the artist.

The exhibition “Perfect Harmony” features masterpieces exceptionally granted to Complesso del Vittoriano, by the Gemeentemuseum (whose director is also the curator of the exhibition) and has been made possible through the collaboration and support of major institutions such as the Denver Art Museum, the Philadelphia Art Museum, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

Benno Tempel, curator of “Perfect Harmony” and Gemeentenmuseum director, stressed that Mondrian is one of the few artists who have left the regular production of art. In fact, as he says, few artists have managed to renew their production steadily, while maintaining a relevant tension to the search for new formal expressions and reworking of the concepts behind the works. One of the most interesting aspects of the Mondrian’s formal investigation, is precisely the will to achieve a harmonious pictorial expression (from which he created abstract art), it does not simply represent reality, but a Utopia capable of making you think of transcending ways. For more information: http://www.comune.roma.it

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The Baths of Diocletian is the greatest thermal complex ever-built in Rome. It was built between 298 and 306 BC, at the expense of the Emperor Diocletian, who wanted to beat the one built by Caracalla, this fantastic resort had a capacity of three thousand people and occupied thirteen hectares, it had among others, gymnasiums, libraries, a pool of over 3500 square meters, concert halls, theaters, gardens … all a luxury spa for the Romans!

Located near the Piazza della Repubblica, it was in use for over 800 years. Subsequently, it was taken for other purposes like erecting churches and other buildings in the best-preserved parts. Although little remains of the original baths, the remains that survive today are the facilities of the Museo Nazionale Romano and are an attractive place to visit, where you can also see the Palazzo Massimo, the Balbi Crypt and the Palazzo Altemps.

The Palazzo Massimo is a neo-Renaissance nineteenth century building. In its four floors you will find one the largest collections of classical art in the world. Sculptures, mosaics, frescoes, coins and jewelry form part of an interesting exhibition that will allow you to relive the history, myth and everyday life of Rome.

The Crypt Balbi, built in 13 BC, was part of a theater and was the resting place for the audience between acts. In addition to the archaeological remains, you can visit the museum, divided into the successive stages of history, from antiquity to the twentieth century.

The Palazzo Altemps was named after the cardinal, who acquired it in 1568. Divided into two floors around a courtyard with a monumental fountain, it houses an impressive collection of Egyptian antiquities and works. In its rooms, you can see sculptures that had been owned by families of the Roman nobility in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The building retains some of the decoration and original frescoes, which can be admired mainly in the chapel dedicated to Pope St. Aniceto.

The complex of baths still has a recognizable structure, a large rectangular enclosure with a large garden area. Inside, now you can visit the Epigraphic Museum, one of the largest in the world, with over ten thousand entries. In its three floors, together with the Faculty of Michelangelo and the Garden of the Cinquecento, are more than a thousand works, including sculptures, reliefs and botivos.

Aula decima, opened to the public 3 years ago after decades of restoration, and gives an idea, with its large dimensions of the greatness that the bathrooms had. It is a chamber with three large domes, in whose walls are carved with several niches intended to receive statues and other decorative elements.

The Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and the Martyrs is located within walking distance of the baths; it is the only church in the Renaissance in the city, built by the great Michelangelo. It houses superb frescoes inside and Bianchini Meridiana, an interesting project designed to show the accuracy of the Gregorian calendar.

Address: Viale Enrico di Nicola, 78

Metro: Termini, line A.

Hours: Open Tuesday to Sunday from 9 to 19:45. The ticket office closes an hour earlier.

Prices: 7 euros regular rate reduced 3.50 and free for children under 18, valid for three days. Includes Spa, Balbi Crypt, and the Palazzo Massimo and Altemps.

Elena Alvarez

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Arriving in a city is sometimes not enough to satisfy our curiosity on our trip. Generally, the big cities have as many great contrasting experiences as places it offers. In big cities, generally, a larger amount of events and cultural spaces congregate, as well as a much more diverse community, both from the country itself as from other countries. The wealth of a city like Rome is precisely in those details.

In Rome, you can find a giant range of cultural offering that you cannot fulfill in a couple of days. The recommended time to visit Rome is probably from seven to ten days, considering that they would be extensive days of long walks as well as visits to different important historical places. The museums, of course, are a necessity if you’re in Rome. Get ready to try some of the best Italian cuisine in the whole country, delicious coffees and select wines.

Nightlife is also very lively in Rome; clubs, bars, concerts… from jazz to rock, garage, reggae… the options are unlimited. This as well, that despite being the centre of such a conservative religion as catholicism, Rome is opening its collective mind more and more towards the gay and lesbian community, offering different parties, discos and places for the LGBT community. Rome is growing all the time and, this way, it still offers alternatives to a different visitor from anywhere around the world.

If you’re in Rome and you want to disconnect from the stir of the city for a day, there’s nothing better than visiting the beautiful town of Tivoli, located barely 20 miles from the Italian capital. As well as beautiful visits of great natural value, in Tivoli you can see and walk around Villa Adriana and Villa d’Este, both named World Heritage sites by UNESCO due to their impressive beauty and history.

In the same way, in Tivoli you can find the famous Rocca Pia, a 15th century fortress ordered to be built by the Pope Pius II. Also, there’s the temple of Vesta, goddess of fire and the home. More impressively, still in Tivoli, is the sanctuary of Hercules, which dates from the 2nd century BC. When you’re there you’ll find it in ruins, but in its time it was one of the biggest constructions in the whole of Italy. The Cathedral of San Lorenzo is also very close, and it offers a space of gathering for those religious people or interested ones in impressive domes of sacred art.

The trip from Rome to Tivoli can be made by car, train or bus. You can use the transport which is most convenient for you and adjusted to your budget, or even combine them. The price is relative according to the route that you choose, but it’s worth doing this one. Preferably, start early in the morning, so that you can do a calm and better organized route without so many tourists around you.

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To mark the fourth centenary of Michelangelo Merisi’ death, better known by the name of Caravaggio, the city of Rome (which was the birthplace of the artistic creation of this great man) tributes his work with the exhibition “Rome at the time of Caravaggio” and simultaneously offers an exhibition of a contemporary artist, who from the beginning of his career was inspired by the work of the great painter from the sixteenth century: Moreno Bondi.

Bondi was born in 1959 in Carrara, a city famous for being the homeland of marble and sculpture. He grew up in Tuscany, a land that was the birthplace of the Renaissance, an Italian art movements, which had more influence outside the confines of country. Both cities greatly influenced his artistic taste, guiding his formal and conceptual research, mainly in the study of the works from the past (that he developed with an incredible meticulousness). Moreno Bondi, in fact, dedicated himself for years to study the manuals of the ’500 and ’600, making a great deal of experimentation related to materials (oils, resins and pigments) that this great masters of the past combined as an alchemists, finding formulas which then he guarded as secret. Discovering these formulas, or at least part of them, has been the center of the artistic research of this tireless contemporary painter.

To this day, the artist lives and works in Rome, city where his studio is located and where he teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts. The results reached after a careful study of Caravaggio’s painting, have been refined over decades of academic research and practical experimentation. This study is revealed in the representation of bodies that appear in his works, and their striking contrast between light and shadow, which is the reason why someone has dared to consider him as a contemporary Caravaggio.

The exhibition “Caravaggio’s Light and Shadow in the contemporary” will take place from the 14th of December at Refettorio Quattrocentesco Antic in Palazzo Venezia from the 17hs30, and will be open until the 15^th of January 2012. Admission is free of charge and you can visit the exhibition from Monday to Friday from 9 to 19hs. In the evocative exhibition space, 15 stunning linen canvas, accompanied by 16 small-format oil paintings will be presented, inside which are placed precious Carrara marble sculptures, personally made by Bondi. This is an exhibition that offers an interesting reelaboration of certain techniques used in ancient times, linking the virtuosity with a strong aesthetic sense and an almost spiritual sensitivity. For more information, please visit the official website: www.morenobondi.it.

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Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome presents an interesting exhibition about Robert Filliou, which is part of the activities of the Fluxus Biennial. The exhibition of the works by  Filliou, is curated by Achille Bonito and opens to the public free of of charge from the 2^nd of December to 15^th of January, 2012.

Filliou’s work is intimately connected to words. He was a poet; despite his artistic work it covered a wider world than poetry. Considered an innovative and disruptive, his work marked by iconoclastic aesthetic interest to make art a permanent state of creation, where creation was the limit to the imagination.

The organizers invited the Italian artist, living in London, Londra Sandrine Nicolettato to the opening of the exhibition. The artist, who will perform one of her performance in which public participation is critical as an actor, showing an interesting redefining the proposal to transform it into an environment of social, physical and mental health.

Robert Filliou was born in Sauve, France, in 1926. In the mid-40 he moved to live in the United States and studied economics at the University of California. After his graduation, he worked in the United Nations program for the development of Korea. In the early 60′s, his life has a twist that will change his career and his way of thinking, to join a group of poets and artists who are beginning to question the system of domination imposed and seek through art, liberating look, far from the alienation of the consumer society.

Among those friends were the dancer and Romanian-born Swiss poet, Daniel Spoerri, whose real name was Daniel Isaac Feinstein, and was known as one of the most important figures of postwar art. Along with Spoerri made Piège à mots (1964), which corresponds to a visual montage that is part of everyday expressions of speech.

In 1962, he decided to join the stream of Fluxus art, is presented in the Misfits, London Festival, where he presented a device made from bicycle wheels as a roulette was organized with words for poems, which caught the attention and the attraction of the public who enjoyed writing ephemeral poems.

The Fluxus (a word which in Latin means flow), arises in the 60′s and covers all expressions of art and its main purpose is to refuse to look at art as a commodity. Its initiator was the Lithuanian George Maciunas, who defined it as the anti-art and includes all materials breaking all the existing categorization of art.

Between 1965 and 1968, Filliou installed an opened  a space to create with George Brecht. This consisted of a workshop where artists and creators could attend to share all creative perspectives about the southern French city of Villefranche-sur-Mer.

during the 70’s, Filliou worked in various media, materials and forms of his work, including video works such as those in Canada. A piece of work with his own image that reproduces the codes of irony, so characteristic of Fluxus.

For more information http://www.auditorium.com/eventi/5095431

Nancy Guzman

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From October 5, at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome you can see the exhibition, Filippino Lippi e Sandro Botticelli nella Firenze del ’400 (Lippi and Botticelli in Florence in the fifteenth century). The exhibition will be open to the public until January 15, 2012 and is curated by Alessandro Cecchi, director of the Palatine Gallery in Florence.

This exhibition aims to present to the public nearly 34 years of incessant activity of the master Filippino Lippi between Prato, Florence and Rome. He was a successful painter even in the dark time of Savonarola, the inquisitor. He stands out for the amount and quality of his works, despite being initially overshadowed his master, Botticelli.

Organised via the collaboration of the Polo Museale Fiorentino, and the Fondo Edifici di Culto, together with private associations such as “Friends of Florence”, the exhibition offers a unique opportunity to enjoy the masterpieces of these two great Tuscan painters. These paintings are vital parts of both human and artistic history and they offer a unique opportunity for comparing some of the great works by these two geniuses. The exhibition analyzes the relationship between the two masters in the context of the time and place in which they lived and worked: Florence in 1500, a city that was buzzing with artistic zeal and innovation.

Filippino Lippi was born in Prato, near Florence in 1457. His parents were a monk and a nun. He was named Filippino to distinguish himself from his father, Fra Filippo Lippi, who was a famous and well-respected painter in his time.

Botticelli was born in Florence in 1445, and began as an apprentice in the workshop of Fra Filippo Lippi, from whom he learned a great deal. In fact, many of Botticelli’s early works have been attributed to his teacher. Years later Botticelli would become teacher to Filippino, who worked in his studio. In turn, his early works closely resemble those of Botticelli and are usually attributed to the pseudonym “Friend of Sandro.”

The exhibition revolves mainly around the works of these 2 artists, although some other painters of the time are also included, such as Raffaellino Del Garbo, Piero Di Cosimo and Filippo Lippi.

The exhibition also includes the final period of Lippi’s artistic life, when he worked in Rome and painted the Caraza Chapel cycle. It was during this time that the Grotesque style began to have an influence, making for paintings that were mysterious, fantastic and disturbing, linked to the dark atmosphere that Savoranola’s inquisition had brought about.

Among the masterpieces that you can see in this exhibition are “La Madonna col Bambino e storie di Sant’Anna” (1452-53) by Lippi’s father, taken from the Palatine Gallery in Florence; “Madonna en Adorazione del bambino”, (1478), by Filippino Lippi and provided by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence; “L’Apparizione della Vergine a san Bernardo“, (1486), now in the Badia Fiorentina in Florence or “Madonna Strozzi” (1485) from the Metropolitan in New York.

Another highlight is Botticelli’s “Adorazione dei Magi” (1475-76) which is also provided by the Uffizi Gallery.

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If you come to Rome before January 15 don’t forget to come to this extraordinary exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale. Afterwards you can return to your comfortable rented apartments in Rome and talk about renaissance art until the wee small hours of the night.

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