CATANIA - An exhibition without locations or walls.
Archimedes and Leonardo will go around in search of a school, a park, a bookshop, but also a prison, a hospital or a retirement home or any place that wants to welcome them.
A way to bring art and culture outside the traditional venue, to get it to places normally excluded.
The mobile museum dedicated to Archimedes and Leonardo is born, an initiative born during the health emergency.
A portable collection of prototypes has been created on a scale of approximately 50 centimeters: the details of a cannon that Leonardo designed for Ludovico il Moro, the detail of an Archimedean device. All reconstructed to scale, at the Teatro Stabile di Catania, which for the first time is confronted with a museum and is transformed into a workshop, in which master craftsmen create prototypes of a singular era. "We feel a great responsibility in the cultural field and this has led us to evolve the model of the traditional museum, to make it open and accessible to all" explains Maria Gabriella, director of the Museum dedicated to Leonardo and Archimede located in Ortigia in Syracuse. Capizzi. Bringing art and science "home". Archimedes' "contraptions", like those of Leonardo,they are timeless masterpieces.
Brilliant inventions, forerunners of modernity, forerunners of robots, helicopters, watches, complex mechanisms. "The partnership of our Theater with the Archimedes and Leonardo Museum - declares the director of the Teatro Stabile of Catania, Laura Sicignano - brings to the present an ancient relationship. There is no scenography laboratory that is not constantly working on prototypes and that does not measure with mathematical, scientific, technical questions, capable of making this long process of study and research "invisible" in the end, to transform it into the miracle of the scene. our laboratory is avant-garde, with highly qualified workers ". (HANDLE).
