COSMOS, The Volcano Lover
The exuberant work “Fantastic Garden” from the Art Rug Projects Collaboration with Chioma Ebinama is exhibited at Villa Olmo in Como, Italy, as part of a group show amongst works by Mike Kelley, Goska Macuga, Slavs & Tatars, and amongst archeological works from the Natural History Museum of Milan.
COSMOS, The Volcano Lover, is curated by Sonia d’Alto, and is on view till end of January.
The exhibition puts in dialogue, in the neoclassical rooms of Villa Olmo, works by 18 contemporary artists with archaeological finds dating back to ancient Roman times and coming from the Paolo Giovio Archaeological Museum in Como, the Museo delle Civiltà in Rome, the Museum of Natural History in Milan, and with ancient prints from the Achille Bertarelli Collection of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, both present for the first time in Como, and from the Naturalistic Collections of the Liceo Alessandro Volta in Como.
The exhibition investigates the obsession with wonder, discovery, and knowledge. A passion so strong in Pliny -a lover of the cosmos and of the human being- that it led him to death in order to save his fellow man and observe up close one of the most powerful phenomena in nature: the volcanic eruption.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Maria Theresa Alves, Yto Barrada, Mirella Bentivoglio, Rossella Biscotti, Jimmie Durham, Chioma Ebimana, Rose Marie Eggmann, Petrit Halilaj, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Pauline Julier, Mike Kelley, Lavanya Mani, Aldo Mondino, Raffaella Naldi Rossano, Diana Policarpo, Nico Vascellari, Alice Visentin, Slavs and Tatars.
IN THE PRESS
https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/cosmos-the-volcano-lover-villa-olmo-como-2023/
