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December 2019
Exhibition: Kenro Izu “Requiem for Pompei”. From 6 December 2019 to 13 April 2020 Modena
MODENA FMAV MATA – EX MANIFATTURA TABACCHI FROM 6 DECEMBER 2019 TO 13 APRIL 2020 THE EXHIBITION OF KENRO IZU REQUIEM FOR POMPEI Curated by Chiara Dall’Olio and Daniele De Luigi The exhibition presents 55 previously unseen photographs donated by the Japanese artist to the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, in a lyrical vision of what was left behind in Pompeii the day after the eruption in 79 AD. Modena is continuing to forge a special relationship with photography.…
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NATIONAL LANDSCAPE DAY 2019 – 14TH MARCH 2019
For National Landscape Day 2019, set for the 14th March 2019, the Archaeological Park of Pompeii will participate in the event, promoted by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, with numerous initiatives: Excavations of Pompeii Several wall paintings which depict landscapes will be focused on, with the distribution of an illustrated booklet. These include the frescoes of the garden in the House of the Ceii (I 6, 15), which was recently reopened to the public, where a vast landscape is…
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Pompeii Theatrum Mundi
The first festival of ancient drama ‘POMPEII THEATRUM MUNDI’ will be held from 22nd June to 23rdJuly 2017 at the Teatro Grande in Pompeii including plays from ‘Oresteia’ to ‘Prometheia’, from ‘Antigone’ to ‘The Bacchae’ and ‘Phaedra’, directed by De Fusco, Luconi, De Rosa, Cerciello. It is a four-year project overseen by the Teatro Stabile of Naples/National Theatre and the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. Conceived for the Teatro Grande in Pompeii, the four-year project ‘POMPEII THEATRUM MUNDI’ is the result…
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RESTORING POMPEII
International Study Days 6 th April 2017 Pompeii - Auditorium 7 th April 2017 Naples - Partenope Convention centre The Great Pompeii Project is the main focus of the two International Study Days ‘Restoring Pompeii’, organised by the Superintendency of Pompeii and the Department of Architecture of the University of Naples ‘Federico II’. The two Study Days will enable an open discussion on the outcome of the four-year project to restore many houses and re-open large areas of the site,…
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Pistoletto in Pompeii
14 th MARCH NATIONAL LANDSCAPE DAY AT THE EXCAVATION SITES OF POMPEII-POMPEII'S RE-BIRTH. MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO’S ‘THIRD PARADISE’ Agreat celebration and a flash-mob in the Palestra Grande of Pompeii helps bring a ‘Third Paradise’ to life with Michelangelo Pistoletto, inspired by the re-birth that Pompeii is experiencing. Pompeii's re-birth can be seen through Pistoletto’s symbol and his ‘Third Paradise’. The symbol of the ‘Third Paradise’ is the reconfiguration of the mathematical infinity symbol. It is composed of three consecutive circles…
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