Photo 1: Rome city of love, the name itself is palindrome of “Amor-Roma” (Love-Rome)
Today, @mariacristinafossa and I will take you with us on a visit to Rome for a very special exhibition. An art exhibition about love. Rome is already an entire work of art and all works of art are born from love and the feelings connected to it, whether good or bad. The exhibition is in the cloister of Bramante, an architect who worked in the height of the Italian Renaissance between the end of the 1400s and the beginning of the 1500s. He had arrived in Rome from Milan after the fall of Ludovido il Moro and rivaled Michelangelo with his works, enough to become the pope’s first architect. The exhibition will not be of classical art, but of modern art and immediately upon entering the sixteenth-century courtyard, we notice the large three-dimensional writings with the words “LOVE” and “AMOR”. The word “amore” in Italian translates to love, but its word “AMOR” is the poetic form of “amore”, but it is also “ROMA” Rome spelled backwards.
Photo 2: “Amor” love, but also the palindrome of “Roma” Rome
Photo 3: three-dimensional LOVE
A staircase leads to the upper rooms of the building, but already visiting this building is a huge thrill for its classic beauty.
Photo 4: The staircase
Clearly the context is a little different than the works found in the various museums in Rome, modern art still manages to kidnap me, even if the conceptual side of the work almost always eludes me, but fortunately we used the audio guide that explains the intentions of the various authors. Very large and colorful flowers that speak of love, courtship, beauty, sensuality. Statues and photographs that reproduce classic works with modern faces, such as Canova’s Paolina Borghese revisited today. A painting of Marilyn by Andy Warhol attracts attention.
Photo 5: The exhibition on love, a sensual mouth with a cigarette.
Photo 6: An orchid, flower that symbolizes sensual love.
Photo 7: Maternal love
Photo 8: Reinterpretation of the masterpiece of Antonio Canova, Paolina Borghese, Venus goddess of love
Photo 9: Marilyn by Andy Warhol. Love icon of the 60s not only in the United States.
But the absolute protagonist is the public, as the exhibition is also interactive in the true sense of the term, and not telematic. At certain points there are completely white walls where the public finds chalks, pencils and is almost obliged to write their thoughts on love. And here are thousands of writings, in all the languages of the world, which become a point to stop, read and understand the thoughts of men and women. Understand that the concept of love is the same everywhere, only shades of behavior, but the inner, when you are able to get it out, is the same everywhere! We too have written our love phrases, we are elderly and for this reason perhaps we know much better what love can truly be.
Photo 10: All I need is love, the public participates in the exhibition with their own thoughts
Photo 11: I too launch my message of love and write it on the wall for Mariacristina: Love is not desire or possession, it is the elevation of the other.
In this museum you don’t have to hide to take pictures, here you have to photograph and publish the photos on various social networks. Everyone is looking for the best shot, the right time to shoot. Of course, usually two people come to visit this exhibition, the single is actually a bit strange, but if someone loves you so much they can always take selfies !!
Photo 12: All I need is love, again!
But the icing on the cake is “All the eternal love I have for pumpkins” by Japanese artist Kusama. A huge box that fits two at a time for a minute, no more. With a game of mirrors it seems to be in a grandiose setting with yellow pumpkins with black dots everywhere, you are overwhelmed by the pumpkins. It is a bit unknown to me what binds the pumpkin to love, but obviously being at the center of that work takes your breath away for the beauty and sensations it makes you feel. It would take at least an hour to sit back, relax and let yourself go to the vision of other worlds, to float ethereal, where you have become part of the work.
Photo 13: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins
Photo 14: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins
Photo 15: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins
At the exit the love chair awaits us, two huge lips, red and fleshy that envelop you in a comfortable seat, here is the last photo!
Photo 16: The kissing point
Photo 17: The kissing point
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, comunque il selfie e’ bello lo stesso!