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 circulate ones creativity and imagination.
Comics are even more than this: they are involved narrative tools that using images and words (sometimes abandoned images) can communicate in the manner of the reader more than any new means of communication. An evidence of the narrative skill of comics is utter not unaided by the theoretical value of many graphic novels, but moreover by their bodily used to tell historical deeds and as reworking of literature classics. Comics have showed to be upon the similar level of new forms of art and literature, succeeding in standing comparison with them, even giving them something more. The exhibition Etruscomix, Etruria in comics, which will acknowledge place in Rome from the 30th of June to the 25th of October, shows that comics can be compared to and inspired from a auditorium that is seemingly certainly stand-in from them: archaeology.
The exhibition, which is meant 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, even if not new, idea: six Italian comic-strip writers have been prearranged (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 area 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 look these works visiting the exhibition at the National Etruscan Museum Villa Giulia, an event that is acknowledged to attract many visitors, both comics lovers and people later a passion for chronicles and archaeology, in cheap B&B in Rome. The plates, indeed, will be displayed next to the archaeological finds of the museum, giving birth to something new and fascinating, and helping visitors to learn something more just about Etruscan history and culture. The reproductions of the plates will be displayed with in the extra Auteur residences that hosted the six comic-strip writers (the museums of Cerveteri and Tarquinia), enriching with these museum paths.
The version of the exhibition is afterward worth mentioning, as it has been realised by one of the greatest and most famous Italian comic-strip writers: Milo Manara. The tab 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 acid out, is intended to gate a window upon history. cd now 2 stars hotels in Rome and acquire ready to travel back up in time!
Tickets: 4 euro, edited 2 euro
Date: 30th June 25th October 2009
Location: National Etruscan Museum Villa Giulia, Rome, Italy
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