Although the association between ruins and archaeology is the most immediate in the common imagination, in a historical-cultural perspective the theme of the ruins actually involves many areas: literature, philosophy, landscape, painting, restoration theory, architecture, urban planning, psychoanalysis, sociology, music.
The exhibition starts from antiquity and moves precisely to these different contexts, to demonstrate the need, the charm and the narrative power of the ruins. The testimonies of the ancient world from the excavation to the museum display, as well as the signs of contemporary disasters, landscapes of ruins and ruined landscapes, and even the sounds of the ruins that inspired, for example, Beethoven are food for thought on our present.
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Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano in Palazzo Altemps, Piazza Sant’Apollinare, 8, from 8 October 2015 to 31 January in 2016.
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For information:
e-mail: sandra.terranova@beniculturali.it
website: http://archeoroma.beniculturali.it