At the Baths of Diocletian the exhibition In Tempore by Polish painter Margherita Lipinska

The contemporary and the ancient. This is the encounter that takes place IN TEMPORE - Painting from life in dialogue with the ancient in the Baths of Diocletian, an exhibition by contemporary artist Margherita Lipinska (Poland, 1964), curated by Architect Cornelia Bujin. The event, scheduled from June 17 to July 30, 2023, is promoted by ICAS, under the auspices of the Presidency of the Culture Commission of the Chamber of Deputies and the National Roman Museum, the patronage of the Polish Embassy in Italy and with the technical support of the Ludovico degli Uberti Foundation.

In places where the memory of the ancient is pervasive, contemporary artistic expressiveness takes on a decisive role in terms of the vitality of a space still dense with living culture and not just “memory” of the past. So, the dialogue that is established in the exhibition space defines that narrative that brings to the surface and relates the artist’s historical stratifications and tensional disturbances, to which she gives form through a new narrative. Margherita Lipinska’s painting technique favors the use of acrylic paints on plastered jute canvases or fine fabrics; she also relies on the use of different materials in order to make the works as textural as possible. To best render this effect, the works are often unframed, which thus take on the appearance of a tapestry.

The work of the Polish artist, in places where the past has its own representative tangibility, stems from a long-considered reflection that needs immediate manifestation. The occasion of the exhibition “THE INSTANT AND ETERNITY,” at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome, becomes a unique opportunity for the Polish artist to return to us all “the intensity of vision and deep emotion” in shaping “a time” that is actualized and is no longer just memory. We are not talking about something absolutely new: the contemporary creeping in, dialoguing, traversing, investigating the ancient is something extremely well known. As early as the early 1960s, the city of Spoleto animated its historic center with the works of contemporary artists. Lipinska’s work is an exhortation to look, to see, to take in with new eyes the masterpieces that enliven the striking museum spaces of the Baths of Diocletian. Her work is not only a tribute to an exhibition of rare beauty and exhibition richness, but also an invitation to know and see, without prejudice, the ancient.

In Margaret Lipinska’s works, the idea of space-time is fundamental to understanding the nature of what we consider real. For this, our mind must possess a “[proper] conceptual representation.” In art, a sculptural work in its hieraticity communicates to us the expression of cosmic eternity, while an image that hints at movement highlights a time that is stopped and captured for the instant captured. Lipinska’s pictorial/material depiction is not only a spatial representation but also a temporal one. The so-called mathematical “time” is not authentic. It is authentic the reality connected with our consciousness, with our “self” for which every present instant summarizes and preserves the whole past.

The exhibition body of Lipinska’s IN TEMPORE exhibition consists of twelve large works of 165x145 format made on fine fabrics. The works are the result of the artist’s careful perceptual/sculptural analysis of the exhibition at the Diocletian Baths. From Osiris to Ulysses to the Maiden of Santorini with a tribute to three works present at the National Roman Museum such asAntinous, Aphrodite and The Hellenistic Prince. Two pictorial installations performed live as an interactive performance will contextualize the topicality and refinement “ad quod post quae” of "THEINSTANT AND THE ETERNITY."

An integral and preparatory part of the exhibition event were the interventions on May 31 and June 7 that resulted in an actual performance in which Margherita Lipinska gave a reinterpretation of some of the works featured in the exhibition The Instant and Eternity.

At the Baths of Diocletian the exhibition In Tempore by Polish painter Margherita Lipinska

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