Il mondo che non vedo
08.09.2010 - 26.09.2010
Museo di Roma in Trastevere Piazza Sant' Egidio 1/b, 00153 Rome, Italy
An exhibition at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere dedicated to the theme of industrial archeology and of the abandoned and degraded sites of our cities. A conference will delve into the topic of abandoned areas and the general change of the idea of city, an urban transformation that opens up new possibilities and ideas from an architectural point of view.
The exhibition "Il Mondo che non vedo" (The World I Do Not See), promoted by the Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e della Comunicazione - sovraintendenza ai beni culturali and by the Associazione Culturale Officine Fotografiche will open in Rome at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Wednesday,September 8, 2010 at 6 pm, and will remain open to the public from the 9 to the 26 of September.
The exhibition, which deals with the issue of industrial archeology, of the abandoned and degraded sites of our metropolis, wants to be a dialogue and comparison between the architecture of Rome and those of other Italian and European cities.
The project "Il Mondo che non vedo", through the artwork of Fabiano Parisi (Rome, 1977), focuses on a story told by the images of these realities, focusing on the aesthetics of these architectural structures deprived of human presence, among pure geometries and perspectives which glorify the depth and the overlapping of architectural layers.
The exhibition, curated by Chiara Canali, joins twenty artworks according to two stylistic types: on one side, abandoned factories, emblem of an outdated ideology of production and work (photos applied on metal with mixed media and resin), on the other, the sites of social gathering and aggregation now abandoned, such as aristocratic houses, ballrooms, churches, crypts, theaters, schools (photos applied on wood with mixed media and resin, framed).
In Parisi's photographic work, social and economical lives coexist, witnessing the decline of certain rituals, habits, traditions of an era, that of the twentieth century. Family-run factories, noble villas, district cinemas, provincial theaters, historic churches are slowly fading away, post-war Italy is inevitably changing and being replaced by the so called non-lieu, as acclaimed by Marc Auge.
Parisi's photography retrieves information from the past and hands down an image of a demolished construction, a building now shattered, or another that is losing its original features because of the aggressionsm of the atmospheric degeneration, conscious of the sadness, the solitude, the grinding which the title of the exhibition (the world i do not see, borrowed from a collection of poems by Fernando Pessoa) refers to.
Parisi's point of view is the one of a twentieth century nostalgic who wants to regain the identity of those anthropological places which are now empty, lost, deprived of the people who once lived them, whose lives are hidden in the heaps of neglected rubble, the piles of debris, the stratifications of mould and dust deposits.
The detection of this decay is entrusted to the visual images that preserve their historical value, while the stones and metals of the depicted architecture change irreparably their skin and semantic meaning.
During the exhibition, Friday September 24 at 6 pm, a conference will be held by prof. Prof. Arch. Antonino Saggio from the Facolta di Architettura L. Quaroni, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, entitled "Le aree dimesse della industria. Una grande crisi e una grande opportunita per il mondo contemporaneo. Il punto di vista della ricerca architettonica " (The desolated areas of industry. A great crisis and a great opportunity for the contemporary world. the point of view of architectural research), that aims to comprehend and meditate on how the great topic of abandoned buildings and industrial areas is linked primarily to a change in the general idea of city. Purpose of the conference is to cover this topic in which the research of a new aesthetic engages in a necessary urban transformation that discloses new ideas and possibilities from an architectural point of view.
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September 2010
