Creating comics is a genuine form of art, although it is too often considered as a bare entertainment for kids. In fact comics are powerful means of communication and tools to space ones creativity and imagination.
Comics are even more than this: they are working narrative tools that using images and words (sometimes abandoned images) can communicate subsequent to the reader more than any new means of communication. An evidence of the narrative skill of comics is unchangeable not isolated by the instructor value of many graphic novels, but with by their subconscious used to say historical events and as reworking of literature classics. Comics have showed to be upon the thesame level of extra forms of art and literature, succeeding in standing comparison later than them, even giving them something more. The exhibition Etruscomix, Etruria in comics, which will agree to area in Rome from the 30th of June to the 25th of October, shows that comics can be compared to and inspired from a field that is seemingly unquestionably alternative from them: archaeology.
The exhibition, which is intended to make people discover the Etruscan civilization, a civilization that has left many important traces in the Italian areas where it developed, is born of an original, though not new, idea: six Italian comic-strip writers have been chosen (Francesco Cattani, Marino Neri, Paolo Parisi, Michele Petrucci, Alessandro Rak, Claudio Stassi) and immersed for few days in places that have been described as Auteur residence: the National Etruscan Museum Villa Giulia in Rome, the Necropolis della Banditaccia in Cerveteri and the Museum of Tarquinia. Each place has been visited by two artists, who have taken inspiration from the finds to realise their works. Here are the titles of the works that have been inspired by Etruscan culture and civilization: Etruria (by Claudio Stassi); Una Partenza (A departure, by Marino Neri), Adonie (Alessandro Rak), Lepisodio del fabbro (The episode of the blacksmith, by Francesco Cattani), Netvis (Michele Petrucci), Viaggio (Travel, by Paolo Parisi). If you travel to Rome you will have the possibility to see these works visiting the exhibition at the National Etruscan Museum Villa Giulia, an issue that is received to attract many visitors, both comics lovers and people similar to a passion for history and archaeology, in cheap B&B in Rome. The plates, indeed, will be displayed neighboring to the archaeological finds of the museum, giving birth to something new and fascinating, and helping visitors to learn something more practically Etruscan chronicles and culture. The reproductions of the plates will be displayed plus in the new Auteur residences that hosted the six comic-strip writers (the museums of Cerveteri and Tarquinia), enriching furthermore these museum paths.
The financial credit of the exhibition is furthermore worth mentioning, as it has been realised by one of the greatest and most famous Italian comic-strip writers: Milo Manara. The description takes inspiration from the Sarcophagus of the Spouses of Villa Giulia Museum, and the portrayed characters seem to invite visitors inside an Etruscan house; the exhibition, indeed, as Milo Manara himself has sharp out, is designed to way in a window upon history. cassette now 2 stars hotels in Rome and acquire ready to travel encourage in time!
Tickets: 4 euro, condensed 2 euro
Date: 30th June 25th October 2009
Location: National Etruscan Museum Villa Giulia, Rome, Italy
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