ROME - Bees, precious jewels of nature in the magic of the Roman Forum. Timeless art and respect for the environment, beauty and a cry of alarm about the dangers associated with the effects of pollution. The new experiment that the Alda Fendi Foundation proposes until 21 June with the installation of its artistic director Raffaele Curi in the Tower of the Church of Santi Luca e Martina, in the heart of the archaeological set among the most beautiful in the world, reserves many food for thought. The ribbon cutting took place on May 20, declared World Bee Day by the United Nations General Assembly. The bet, this time is a daring one. The tiny spaces allow the visit - free but with compulsory reservation - only to two people at a time and offer suggestions with conceptual interventions reduced toessential.
For `` In the Forum the golden bees fly - Theocritus '' Raffaele Curi takes his cue from the verse of the Syracusan poet to put together the baroque of Pietro da Cortona, who designed and built the church, photographic images and visions borrowed from the history of art linking different cultures and eras. Visitors walk on a carpet of words moved by the wind, two binoculars suspended in front of an open window point to the remains of the Great Rome while Antonio Infantino's soundtrack reproduces the roaring hum of bees. Peering from a balcony overlooking the interior of the sacred building, the three bees of the Barberini coat of arms stand out. '' Einstein warned that if bees disappeared humanity after four would follow the same fate, '' notes Curi.As precious as they are at high risk of extinction as the list of pesticides traced on a wall recalls, the bees are therefore shown inside a series of boxes for rings and jewels, precisely as a precious asset to defend and preserve. '"If I could choose, I would be reborn as a bee - says Alda Fendi - but not queen bee, worker bee. Hardworking, intent on saving the earth. In the Forum the bees visit us by injecting us with the pollen of life, precious, forerunner of any vaccine". In the short path scroll the images of hieroglyphics from the tomb of a pharaoh, a silver coin from Ephesus in Greece, the IV book of Virgil's Georgics, the medieval visions from Tacuinum sanitatis casanatensis, the honey thief Cupid by Albrecht Dürer, the base of the equestrian monument to Ferdinando I de 'Medici realized by Giambologna in Florence, the Fountain of bees by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Beauty and poetry, therefore, to '' preserve the world, treasuring the industriousness of bees that become a symbol of strength, hope and vitality ''. But it is the fantastic scenario of the Forum that wins over everything, an opportunity to really touch history by reaching out. A few meters away stands the imposing Arch of Septimius Severus, only a few steps separate from the Curia Iulia, the ancient seat of the Senate, and from the entrance to the Mamertine Prison, prison - according to tradition - of the apostles Peter and Paul in which unknown and illustrious enemies of Rome were imprisoned and died, such as the king of Numidia Giugurta, the king of the Gauls Vergingetorix and the accomplices of Catilina in the conspiracy. (HANDLE).the Fountain of bees by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Beauty and poetry, therefore, to '' preserve the world, treasuring the industriousness of bees that become a symbol of strength, hope and vitality ''. But it is the fantastic scenario of the Forum that wins over everything, an opportunity to really touch history by reaching out. A few meters away stands the imposing Arch of Septimius Severus, only a few steps separate from the Curia Iulia, the ancient seat of the Senate, and from the entrance to the Mamertine Prison, prison - according to tradition - of the apostles Peter and Paul in which unknown and illustrious enemies of Rome were imprisoned and died, such as the king of Numidia Giugurta, the king of the Gauls Vergingetorix and the accomplices of Catilina in the conspiracy. (HANDLE).the Fountain of bees by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Beauty and poetry, therefore, to '' preserve the world, treasuring the industriousness of bees that become a symbol of strength, hope and vitality ''. But it is the fantastic scenario of the Forum that wins over everything, an opportunity to really touch history by reaching out. A few meters away stands the imposing Arch of Septimius Severus, only a few steps separate from the Curia Iulia, the ancient seat of the Senate, and from the entrance to the Mamertine Prison, prison - according to tradition - of the apostles Peter and Paul in which unknown and illustrious enemies of Rome were imprisoned and died, such as the king of Numidia Giugurta, the king of the Gauls Vergingetorix and the accomplices of Catilina in the conspiracy. (HANDLE).preserve the world, treasuring the industriousness of bees that become a symbol of strength, hope and vitality ''. But it is the fantastic scenario of the Forum that wins over everything, an opportunity to really touch history by reaching out. A few meters away stands the imposing Arch of Septimius Severus, only a few steps separate from the Curia Iulia, the ancient seat of the Senate, and from the entrance to the Mamertine Prison, prison - according to tradition - of the apostles Peter and Paul in which unknown and illustrious enemies of Rome were imprisoned and died, such as the king of Numidia Giugurta, the king of the Gauls Vergingetorix and the accomplices of Catilina in the conspiracy. (HANDLE).preserve the world, treasuring the industriousness of bees that become a symbol of strength, hope and vitality ''. But it is the fantastic scenario of the Forum that wins over everything, an opportunity to really touch history by reaching out. A few meters away stands the imposing Arch of Septimius Severus, only a few steps separate from the Curia Iulia, the ancient seat of the Senate, and from the entrance to the Mamertine Prison, prison - according to tradition - of the apostles Peter and Paul in which unknown and illustrious enemies of Rome were imprisoned and died, such as the king of Numidia Giugurta, the king of the Gauls Vergingetorix and the accomplices of Catilina in the conspiracy. (HANDLE).But it is the fantastic scenario of the Forum that wins over everything, an opportunity to really touch history by reaching out. A few meters away stands the imposing Arch of Septimius Severus, only a few steps separate from the Curia Iulia, the ancient seat of the Senate, and from the entrance to the Mamertine Prison, prison - according to tradition - of the apostles Peter and Paul in which unknown and illustrious enemies of Rome were imprisoned and died, such as the king of Numidia Giugurta, the king of the Gauls Vergingetorix and the accomplices of Catilina in the conspiracy. (HANDLE).But it is the fantastic scenario of the Forum that wins over everything, an opportunity to really touch history by reaching out. A few meters away stands the imposing Arch of Septimius Severus, only a few steps separate from the Curia Iulia, the ancient seat of the Senate, and from the entrance to the Mamertine Prison, prison - according to tradition - of the apostles Peter and Paul in which unknown and illustrious enemies of Rome were imprisoned and died, such as the king of Numidia Giugurta, the king of the Gauls Vergingetorix and the accomplices of Catilina in the conspiracy. (HANDLE).According to tradition, prison of the apostles Peter and Paul in which unknown and illustrious enemies of Rome were imprisoned and died such as the king of Numidia Giugurta, the king of the Gauls Vergingetorix and the accomplices of Catilina in the conspiracy. (HANDLE).According to tradition, prison of the apostles Peter and Paul in which unknown and illustrious enemies of Rome were imprisoned and died such as the king of Numidia Giugurta, the king of the Gauls Vergingetorix and the accomplices of Catilina in the conspiracy. 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