After the Tribes: the installation by Beverly Barkat at the Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum in Rome

From October 11 to December 31, 2018, the Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum in Rome is hosting an exhibition by Beverly Barkat (Johannesburg, 1966) entitled"After the Tribes."

The exhibition, curated by Giorgia Calò, presents a site-specificinstallation, a work that dialogues with the place that hosts it.

It is a four-meter tower placed in the Salone delle Vedute, a room where there are mural paintings of the tree-lined avenues and park of Villa Ludovisia.
The geometric shapes that decorate the villa’s interior and facades can be found in part in Beverly Barkat’s work.
Twelve panels represent the twelve tribes of Israel: each was distinguished by the color on the banners and gemstones that adorned the breastplates of the priests. These colors were therefore taken up by the artist: shells, layered or semi-precious stones, sand, rock and clay from the caves, desert, sea and mountains of Israel become the essential colors of the twelve circular paintings in his installation.

Curator Giorgia Calò says, “The artist’s work focuses on color and material to arrive at a complex universe of symbols and quotations, and she does so through her unmistakable painterly gesture that draws inspiration as much from the classical tradition as from modern art movements such as Abstract Expressionism. His work could be called alchemical, in the moment in which he transmutes substances taking on mystical and spiritual connotations, as well as physical ones.”

Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Free admission

After the Tribes: the installation by Beverly Barkat at the Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum in Rome

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