(ANSA) - ROME, 03 MAY - Life and death and time at the center, which weaves its web in which man with his flesh remains entangled in an attempt to free himself and perhaps manage to become a hero, from Mycenae to Marvel comics .
It is the thread of infinite references in which the instant and eternity unravel.
Tranoi e gli antica - which can be visited from Thursday 4 May and until 30 July 2023 - an exhibition of ancient yet conceptual art as only modern and contemporary art can be.
It is no coincidence that it is in Rome in the Great Halls of the Baths of Diocletian, a place of enormous industrial archeology fascination.
Promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sport, the exhibition is organized by the General Directorate of Museums and the National Roman Museum in collaboration with Electa, conceived and curated by Massimo Osanna, Stéphane Verger, Maria Luisa Catoni and Demetrios Athanasoulis, with the support from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii and the participation of the Imt High Studies School of Lucca and the Scuola Superiore Meridionale.
About 300 works on display "between us and the ancients", divided into five sections, which invite you to go back and forth in the large spaces because there will always be some wonder that escapes the eye in the fascinating complexity of this unique exhibition.
Many are exhibited for the first time: such as the ceremonial chariot of Civita Giuliana, the statue of Hercules from the Appia Antica Archaeological Park, new acquisitions such as the Tabula Chigi from the Roman National Museum, and, above all, numerous masterpieces usually kept in the deposits and museums of the Italy and Greece, such as the kore statue from Santorini.
It opens with the cast of two anonymous victims of the Vesuvius eruption, it closes after a wide coming and going with Roman sarcophagi and ex votos with depictions of internal organs, down to the bowels of man and the earth.
With the ossuary of the Roman ophthalmologist C. Terentius Pistus who for eighty-seven years, five months, twenty-four days and ten hours recorded the time of his long life.
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