→ Fondazione Memmo – Notte Oscura – Conversation Piece Part VIII

Fondazione Memmo
Notte Oscura - Coversation Piece Part VIII

Fondazione Memmo
Notte Oscura /
Coversation Piece Part VIII

Fondazione Memmo presents Notte Oscura (Dark Night), the eighth edition
of Conversation Piece, the annual cycle of exhibitions curated by Marcello Smarrelli
dedicated to Italian and foreign artists who are temporarily resident in Rome,
or who have a special relationship with the city. The title of this edition, Notte Oscura,
is taken from the writings of Saint John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes Álvarez 1542-1591)
a saint, mystic and doctor of the Church. The poem Dark Night of the Soul, written
when Álvarez was close to death during a period of imprisonment, deals with his personal experience of nocturnal ecstasy, in which darkness is a metaphor for the adversities
and obstacles encountered while attempting to break one’s bonds with the world
of the senses, so as to reach the light.

The exhibition’s visual identity identity evokes darkness in a metaphorical and abstract key. Darkness becomes gaseous matter, it creeps into space suffocating the light, the communication support becomes a container.

Fondazione Memmo presents Notte Oscura (Dark Night), the eighth edition of Conversation Piece, the annual
cycle of exhibitions curated by Marcello Smarrelli
dedicated to Italian and foreign artists who are temporarily resident in Rome, or who have a special relationship
with the city. The title of this edition, Notte Oscura,
is taken from the writings of Saint John of the Cross
(Juan de Yepes Álvarez 1542-1591) a saint, mystic
and doctor of the Church. The poem Dark Night of the Soul, written when Álvarez was close to death during a period
of imprisonment, deals with his personal experience
of nocturnal ecstasy, in which darkness is a metaphor
for the adversities and obstacles encountered while attempting to break one’s bonds with the world
of the senses, so as to reach the light.

The exhibition’s visual identity identity evokes darkness
in a metaphorical and abstract key. Darkness becomes gaseous matter, it creeps into space suffocating the light, the communication support becomes a container.

Fondazione Memmo presents Notte Oscura
(Dark Night), the eighth editionof Conversation Piece, the annual cycle of exhibitions curated
by Marcello Smarrelli dedicated to Italian
and foreign artists who are temporarily resident
in Rome,or who have a special relationship with the city. The title of this edition, Notte Oscura,
is taken from the writings of Saint John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes Álvarez 1542-1591)
a saint, mystic and doctor of the Church.
The poem Dark Night of the Soul, written
when Álvarez was close to death during a period of imprisonment, deals with his personal experience of nocturnal ecstasy, in which darkness is a metaphor for the adversities
and obstacles encountered while attemptin
to break one’s bonds with the world
of the senses, so as to reach the light.

The exhibition’s visual identity identity evokes darkness in a metaphorical and abstract key. Darkness becomes gaseous matter, it creeps
into space suffocating the light,
the communication support becomes a container.

Fondazione Memmo presents Notte Oscura (Dark Night), the eighth edition
of Conversation Piece, the annual cycle of exhibitions curated by Marcello Smarrelli dedicated to Italian and foreign artists who are temporarily resident in Rome, or who have a special relationship with the city. The title of this edition, Notte Oscura, is taken from the writings of Saint John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes Álvarez 1542-1591) a saint, mystic and doctor of the Church. The poem Dark Night of the Soul, written when Álvarez was close to death during a period of imprisonment, deals with his personal experience of nocturnal ecstasy, in which darkness is a metaphor for the adversities
and obstacles encountered while attempting to break one’s bonds with
the world of the senses, so as to reach the light.

Fondazione Memmo presents Notte Oscura (Dark Night), the eighth edition
of Conversation Piece, the annual cycle of exhibitions curated by Marcello Smarrelli dedicated to Italian and foreign artists who are temporarily resident in Rome, or who have a special relationship with the city. The title of this edition, Notte Oscura, is taken from the writings of Saint John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes Álvarez 1542-1591)
a saint, mystic and doctor of the Church. The poem Dark Night of the Soul, written
when Álvarez was close to death during a period of imprisonment, deals with his personal experience of nocturnal ecstasy, in which darkness is a metaphor for the adversities
and obstacles encountered while attempting to break one’s bonds with the world of the senses, so as to reach the light.

The exhibition’s visual identity identity evokes darkness in a metaphorical
and abstract key. Darkness becomes gaseous matter, it creeps into space suffocating the light, the communication support becomes
a container.

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→ Project type: Exhibition, identity
→ Client: Fondazione Memmo