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The art and architectural gems of Italy's Lombardy region. Lombardy
is one of the least-known regions of Italy, and yet it holds a
great many surprises for lovers of nature and art, boasting
splendid villas and gardens along the banks of Lake Como and Lake
Garda, medieval villages, countless monuments and buildings, and
statues and paintings dotted all across the region, from the plains
south of the city to the foothills of the Alps in the north.The
many marvelous places that one will discover through the eyes of
this well-loved art critic include the Romanesque basilica of San
Pietro al Monte perched high on a mountainside; the fabulous
marquetry designs by Lorenzo Lotto in Bergamo Cathedral; the
prehistoric rock etchings in the Valcamonica; Mario Botta's
stunning Santa Maria degli Angeli chapel on Monte Tamaro; the
eighteenth-century villa of Balbianello on Lake Como; and, not
least, the Romanesque church of San Michele in Pavia.
Mythical Diary is a visual journey through the classical sculpture
of Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. It is a physical
engagement with the marble bodies of myth. Through his black and
white photography, Luigi Spina disassembles the limbs of the
sculptures, emphasising their curves and hidden eroticism,
humanising them to establish a dialogue with the observer. A
sculpture is the sign of eternal, unchanging beauty: the only real
evidence of the many lives that have passed and come to an end
leaving a profound mark in the story of many other existences. For
Spina, with his own vision of sculpture, a statue of Aphrodite is
not merely a stereotypical portrayal of myth. In it are gathered
the anxieties, dreams, hopes and joys of all those who have set
eyes on her and dreamed or studied her. In a way, classical
sculpture is profoundly present in our veins, in our very breath.
The project takes the form of an imaginary diary covering fifteen
days. But this is only an ephemeral period of time, a convention.
The whole work developed over a period of days and months amounting
to years, always in contact with the circumscribed space made of
myriad lives and stories, which we call a museum. In Mythical
Diary, Spina attempts to make classical sculpture interact with the
viewer's desire to be a part of this ancient world that has always
influenced our way of life, our culture and our society, proving
itself to be contemporary with any period.
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