Microcosm, an international group show recreates the small world of Valmontone's Palazzo Doria Pamphilj

Running from February 16 to March 31, 2019, is the exhibition Microcosm. Visions of Contemporary Landscapes from the World, at the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj Museum in Valmontone, Rome. The exhibition, curated by Antonio Trimani and Monica Di Gregorio, welcomes works by artists from around the world. The Microcosm was the “small world” that Camillo Pamphilj, in the mid-seventeenth century, intended to recreate in his suburban residence, entrusting some of the leading artists of the time with allegorical depictions of the four elements and the four parts of the world then known.

The four rooms frescoed with the allegories of the four continents, on the occasion of the Microcosm exhibition, will host about seventy works by forty different artists, thus becoming a place for comparison and interpretation of the contemporary landscape understood in its meaning of “microcosm” and “macrocosm,” elements that unite all the invited protagonists, a theme that is declined according to the visions, poetics and modus operandi of each, expressing unity in diversity, from global to glocal.

The artists’ interventions, as usual, will follow strictly following the alphabetical order by continent of belonging.

America’s Camerino
Maria Thereza Alvez / Peter Campus / Patricia Claro / Alvin Curran / Jimmie Durham Kathleen J Graves / César Meneghetti /Michael Snow / Bill Viola

Dressing Room of Africa
Ernest Dükü / Theo Eschetu / Ananias Léki Dago / Mohamed Keita / Joachim K. Silué / Ouattara Watts

Europe’s Dressing Room
Chiara Arturo / Bankeri / Carlo Bernardini / Iginio De Luca / Tiziano Doria / Angelo Maria Farro / LU.PA / Federico Fusj Emanuele Giannetti / Emilio Isgrò / Gianni Lillo / Matteo Montani / Alice Paltrinieri / Mimmo Rubino / Donatella Spaziani Jan Steklík / Mat Toan / Antonio Trimani

Asia’s Camerino
Stephen Roach / Jon Rose & Hollis Taylor / Fang Shengyi / Liu Shangying / Suh Yongsun / Wang Yu

Opening hours: Monday to Thursday: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.; Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m./ 3:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. Free admission. For info visit the City of Valmontone.

Microcosm is organized by the City of Valmontone - Department of Culture and promoted by the Sistema Museale Territoriale Castelli Romani e Prenestini, under the patronage of the Embassy of the Ivory Coast in Italy and the Academy of Fine Arts of Frosinone. The project is financed by the Lazio Region under L.R. Oct. 23, 2009 No. 26, Public Notice aimed at the development of cultural development systems, and is part of a broader System action called Visions of Landscape between Art, Science and Literature. The exhibition is realized with the collaboration and support of: Le Stazioni Contemporary Art Milan, Crearte Studio, Hermes Ear, inner room, MK Gallery, The Rosemberg Museum, Yurta cultural relations Tuscany Beijing.

In the photo: Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Valmontone, Stanza del Principe

Microcosm, an international group show recreates the small world of Valmontone's Palazzo Doria Pamphilj

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