Museums in Rome: Autumn Exhibitions Vol.2
Decommissioned summer clothes, put aside the memories of summer just ended, all we can do is return to the routine of the city. Roman shy autumn will be able to cuddle you and make less hard the return impact, with a range of distractions like the many openings of new exhibitions.
Let’s start with these Rome Exhibitions:
American Chronicle
Rome Museum: Rome Foundation Museum, Palazzo Sciarra
(November 11, 2014 – February 8, 2015)
Over one hundred tables of Norman Rockwell, for the first time shown outside the United States, that tell seventy years of American history.
In addition to oil paintings, photographs and documents of the artist, will be on display the complete collection of 323 covers of The Saturday Evening Post, which testifies almost fifty years of collaboration with the renowned magazine.
José Guadalupe Posada, “La muerte no tiene permiso”
Rome Museum: Instituto Cervantes, Piazza Navona 9
(1 October 23, 2014 – November 23, 2014)
“El artista del pueblo” (the artist of the people) was an engraver, illustrator and cartoonist, best known for his drawings and prints about death, and for the popular scenes illustrating social inequality and injustice in Mexican society. His caricatures have not spared anyone or anything. Politicians, soldiers, prostitutes, drunks, bandits, elegant ladies, commoners and all sorts of workers, rich or poor, powerful or exploited, because we are all “walking bones”.
His illustrations have become real global cult objects, especially La Calavera Catrina, a symbol par excellence of adoration of the dead Mesoamerican. Through its skulls, Jose Guadalupe Posada, mocks the Mexicans bourgeois values, the fear for the end of the century, that coincided with the fear of the end of the world, questioning also morality and religion.
Franco Fontana, “Full Color”
Rome Museum: Palazzo Incontro
(October 15, 2014 – January 11, 2015)
130 surreal photographs that tell his reputation as a “portrait painter of landscapes” photographer, recognized throughout the world. A collection of photos with a specific style, landscapes in which there is no place for humans, except for its long shadows and the use of so much bright colors and geometric compositions constructed too, as to appear unreal.
Divided into several thematic sections, the exhibition presents the landscapes of the early (60’s) through the various research dedicated to urban landscapes, swimming pools and sea.