- Venue
- Sala Crociera at the Collegio Romano
- Starts
- Saturday, March 8, 2008
- Ends
- Thursday, April 10, 2008
- Address
- via del Collegio Romano, 27 - 00186 Rome - Italy
- Location
Conceived and curated by the artist Cybèle Varela, the exhibition AD SIDERA, per Athanasius Kircher takes place in the space of monumental Crociera, headquarters of the Study of the Collegio Romano and Kircher's museum, a place of passage of many researchers, from yesterday and today, and in the annex "Reading Room". Trailing her research between past and present, between places of art, historical and contemporary, the artist presents about twenty works, many of which created exclusively for the exhibition, including paintings, digital photographs, videos, books and sculptures, such as the reformulated copy of the obelisk designed by Kircher and dedicated to Christina of Sweden and then to Clement IX. An installation will be shown in the Reading Room, with a musical background by the German composer Peter Pannke, entitled Kircher's Lauschangriff. From this unusual dialogue between the silence of the library, its architectural space and the works of the artist, the viewer will be invited to create his own theatre of the world. Conversation suspended in time, subtly ironical, AD SIDERA per Athanasius Kircher proposes a reflection on the interference of the possible, beyond the boundaries of creativity.
