Diego Perrone creates a bronze sculpture that dialogues with the ancient at the National Roman Museum

La notte all’indietro pes a is the title of the project by Diego Perrone (Turin, 1975) conceived for the Museo Nazionale Romano, winner of the third edition of the Italian Council (2018) call for proposals, a competition conceived by the General Directorate for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries (DGAAP) of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities.

Backward Night Weighs is a sculpture made with a special lost-wax casting of glass and set up in the Hall of the Goddess Rome at the Palazzo Massimo. This room houses a fresco of a Venus from the fourth century B.C., integrated in the seventeenth century and known from here as "Goddess Rome." The Night Back wards Weighs stems from a dialogue with the context, the iconography of the fresco and its reworkings over time.

The Italian Council project was created with the aim of promoting contemporary Italian art in the world. For this reason, Diego Perrone’s work arrives in Rome after being presented in the spring inOregon, at Bullseye Projects in Portland, and will continue in January first at theItalian Cultural Institute in Brussels and then at the Swiss Museum in St. Gallen in February. The work’s itinerary will end in September 2020, when it will be permanently installed in the Crypta Balbi.

The catalog is acura of Mousse Publishing and will be presented at the finissage of the exhibition.

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Pictured: National Roman Museum - Palazzo Massimo

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Diego Perrone creates a bronze sculpture that dialogues with the ancient at the National Roman Museum

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