With the patronage of:
The Ministry of Cultural Heritage
Rome Council
General Direction for Cultural Policy
Service for Internal Control of the Cultural Heritage
Barracco Museum
With the collaboration of the
Meetings Centre of "Villa Torlonia"
Annamaria Russo, who has already been the lead artist in a series of exhibitions in particularly important venues from an artistic and historic point of view like the "Sala del Bramante" in Piazza del Popolo, the "Cortile degli Aranci" in the Monumental Complex of San Michele a Ripa, and "le Scuderie" of Palazzo Ruspoli, now takes a fresh look at the Barracco collection and through drawings and engravings reveals the way in which the artist "contrasts her experience with the visual wealth of classicism". From this she is prompted to express the spiritual feelings that ancient objects provoked in the emotional sphere.
The show therefore assumes the character of a "homage" to Baron Giovanni Barracco and the archeological collection donated by him to the Rome Council in 1905.
In Annamaria Russo's work, past and present are not two separate worlds but interact and the artistic adventure once again "opens the way for a dynamic discovery that continues in time and creates history".
Alongside this recent work of the artist, there is an exhibition of the "Wheels" that "strengthen the expansive strength of the image, annulling the horizontal and vertical sense of the traditional representation, in a way in which the experience of the continuity of the clots-colours has no precise direction, nor one point of view, naturalism that becomes an interior state, a state of mind, impression-expression..." and that, at the same time, prompts public participation "called to directly intervene in order to rotate the work with a gesture. Annamaria Russo's artistic expression is characterized by a continuous research "for a symbolic identity between content and form"; in which the interactive value is of primary importance.