(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 14 - The more time eludes us, the more we feel the urgency to govern it, if only with the imagination. It is precisely to time, to the obsession with its becoming, to the urgency to stop it, to give it form, meaning, substance that is configured in particular in the Baroque era, the exhibition that opens from tomorrow to 3 October in Rome in the newly renovated rooms of Barberini Palace. Curated by the director Flaminia Gennari Sartori and Francesca Cappelletti, who always leads the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the exhibition stems from a 2017 project, stopped like many others by the eruption of the Covid epidemic. Yet, precisely for this reason his reflecting on time and its perception, on man's atavistic anxiety to understand it, measure it, stop it,arrives very current almost as if it had been conceived by the two scholars to give a sense of time extended and alienated by the lockdowns linked to the pandemic. And if it is true that room after room the story through images that slowly unfolds in the eyes of the visitor, from the telepossenti of Guido Reni, Poussin, van Dyck, Caravaggio, to the incredible drawings by Bernini and Baciccia, Andrea Sacchi, up to precious objects, clocks by gold and precious stones that are both a prodigy of mechanics and high goldsmithing, tells of a particular and unique era in Western history, that seventeenth century that belonged to Bernini but also to Galileo and which brought about a profound change both in physical perception and in poetic representation of time, it is also true that this "Baroque Time" appears, indeed almosttopicality with a thousand ideas and suggestions.
Created thanks to the CIPE funds destined for the restoration of the rooms on the ground floor of Palazzo Barberini, the exhibition also inaugurates the new space - over 750 square meters for a cost of 952,626 euros - destined for temporary exhibitions and strongly evolved by the director Gennari Sartori. A project also started in 2017 for the completion of the great Barberini Museum and of which "we are finally seeing the results", underlines the director anticipating that in the autumn the Barberini Cafeteria will finally open, in the space of the ancient greenhouses.
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