Rome, performance art will fly Japanese paper kites over Villa Torlonia

Kites made of Japanese paper will fly in the sky of Villa Torlonia in Rome on June 26: this is a performance by artist Anna Onesti (Rocca di Papa, 1956), who made the kites on Japanese paper as part of her solo exhibition Un mondo fluttuante. Works on Paper by Anna Onesti, hosted in the Dependency of the Casina delle Civette at the Villa Torlonia Museums. The exhibition features eight tapestries and eight Japanese paper kites, the result of the artist’s recent work. The performance, titled Paper Clouds, will take place on Saturday, June 26, and will feature the kites flying in the Villa’s park. The event conceived by artist Anna Onesti and coordinated by Annapaola Agati, Villa Torlonia’s manager, will include the fundamental contribution of the kite flying group Greko Kite Roma (a group founded in 2000, which stems from Claudio Del Greco’s passion for aerial photography and which meets on weekends to fly kites: they have also been building kites for years, specializing in aerial photography and participating in all kite events held throughout the country), who will be flying kites starting at 10:30 am.

Villa Torlonia, with its free and sinuous paths, rich in tree essences, bears witness to the different settings given to the spaces by the landscape architects who worked there in successive periods, and has been identified as the ideal venue for the exhibition and performance because, with its airy freedom, it is well suited to decorate the sky with the flying works created by Anna Onesti, Claudio Del Greco, Ettore Carta and Virginia Lorenzetti. The path will run from outside the fence of the Casina delle Civette to the Tournament Field.

The exhibition A Floating World. Works on Paper by Anna Onesti can be visited until Sunday, June 27. It is promoted by Roma Culture, Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali, under the patronage of the Italy Japan Foundation, and is curated by Alessia Ferraro and Maria Grazia Massafra. Zètema Progetto Cultura museum services. Admission is free for MIC Card holders. Anna Onesti is an artist who has collaborated with important international institutions committed to the preservation of cultural heritage. Her works are made on washi paper, “Japanese paper,” using decorative techniques inspired by traditional textile dyeing.

The history of paper in Japan has its roots in distant ages through contacts with China via Korea and through the advent of Buddhism, which was officially introduced in 552. The term washi denotes various types of paper that differ in execution techniques and the type of fibers used. Handmade paper still retains an extraordinarily vibrant manufacturing tradition in the East, as does the use of natural colors that have now returned to our territories as well. These materials, with their particularities and polyvalences, have all the characteristics to adapt to a technological world very different from that of their origins. The exhibition, therefore, also wants to reflect on these precious and unique materials whose development depends greatly on the quality of the environment and its proper ecological balance. A work, that of Anna Onesti, which, starting from an extreme adherence to the materials used, seeks to affirm a completely original sensory experience of optical and physical feeling, thanks also to the use of a manual skill that seems to result in a timeless rituality. Anna Onesti’s art is characterized by the intersection of conservation and theoretical reflection, in the name of a delicate and conscious “doing” related to the manuality of paper restoration and a determined “thinking” about art as an evocation of feelings.

In the photo, one of Anna Onesti’s kites at the Casina delle Civette.

Rome, performance art will fly Japanese paper kites over Villa Torlonia

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