A major exhibition dedicated to Escher in Rome, with some three hundred works

One hundred years after his first visit to the capital in 1923, Maurits Cornelis Escher (Leeuwarden, 1898 - 1972) returns to Rome from October 31, 2023 to April 1, 2024 with a major exhibition dedicated to him, which will be staged at Palazzo Bonaparte. It is proposed as the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever dedicated to him. Under the patronage of the City of Rome - Department of Culture and the Embassy and Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the exhibition is produced and organized by Arthemisia in collaboration with the M.C.Escher Foundation and Maurits and is curated by Federico Giudiceandrea and Mark Veldhuysen.

A restless, reserved and undoubtedly brilliant Dutchman, Escher is the artist whose etchings and lithographs have had and continue to have the ability to transport the viewer into an imaginative and impossible world, where art, mathematics, science, physics and design are mixed. A wide range of themes converge in his works. The Rome exhibition takes the form of an exceptional event that presents to the public, in addition to his most celebrated masterpieces, numerous never-before-exhibited works. An anthology of about three hundred works that includes the iconic Hand with Reflecting Sphere (1935), Bond of Union (1956), Metamorphosis II (1939), Day and Night (1938), the famous Emblemata series, and many, many more.

After several trips to Italy that began in 1921 when he visited Tuscany, Umbria, and Liguria, Escher arrived in Rome where he lived for a good twelve years, from 1923 to 1935, at number 122 Via Poerio in the Monteverde vecchio district. The Roman period had a strong influence on all his later work, which saw him prolific in the production of lithographs and engravings especially of landscapes, views, architecture and views of that ancient and Baroque Rome that he loved to investigate in its most intimate dimension, that of the night, in the dim light of a lantern. The nights spent drawing, sitting on a folding asedia and with a small flashlight hanging from his jacket, are counted by Escher among the best memories of that period. Also on display at Palazzo Bonaparte will be the complete series of the twelve “Roman Nocturnes” produced in 1934.

The exhibition is sponsored by Generali Valore Cultura, special partner Ricola, mobility partner Atac and Frecciarossa Treno Ufficiale, media partner la Repubblica and Urban Vision, hospitality partner Hotel de Russie and Hotel de la Ville, and partner Mercato Centrale Roma.

Maurits Cornelis Escher, Hand with Reflecting Sphere, detail (1935; lithograph, 31.8 x 21.3 cm; Maurits Collection, Bolzano. All M.C. Escher works © 2023 The M.C. Escher Company.

A major exhibition dedicated to Escher in Rome, with some three hundred works

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