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Item Number: 83098
Title: CYBELE VARELA: Ad sidera per Athanasius Kircher
Author: Anselmi, Salvatore Enrico et al
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788849214161
Description: Roma: Gangemi, 2008. 24cm., pbk., 94pp. illus., several in color. Italian-English text. Exhibition held at Biblioteca d'Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte, Roma. Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), considered the ultimate universal erudite, created in 1651, in the space of the Crociera of the Collegio Romano his famous museum of the world, which soon became a must-see place in Baroque Rome. Four centuries later, the artist Cybèle Varela has decided to pay tribute to this incredibly inventive and inspirational figure, with the exhibition Ad Sidera, per Athanasius Kircher, presented in the same place where Kircher had his museum, which is today Rome’s Library of archaeology and art history annex. An artist of international standing, Varela has exhibited widely across Europe and the Americas and her work is part of relevant museum collections around the world. In this exhibition she shows Pop-surrealist paintings, photographs, books, and a reformulated version of the obelisk designed by Kircher and dedicated to Christina of Sweden and afterwards to Clement IX. This catalogue accompanies the exhibition and contains essays by leading historians, highlighting aspects of Kircher’s personality and work relating them to the artist’s creations, together with a text by Varela in which the buccaneer Captain Meraviglia, an amusing character invented by the artist, makes his first appearance in Kircher’s theatre of the world. Contributors: Maurizio Fallace, Peter-Hans Kolvenbach S.J., Paolo Portoghesi, Eugenio Lo Sardo, Francesco Sisinni, Mauro Giancaspro, Cybèle Varela, Alessandro Orlandi, Enrico Salvatore Anselmi and Ariane Varela Braga.
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