Creating comics is a real 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 expose ones creativity and imagination.
Comics are even more than this: they are lively narrative tools that using images and words (sometimes by yourself images) can communicate behind the reader more than any supplementary means of communication. An evidence of the narrative knack of comics is conclusive not only by the moot value of many graphic novels, but then by their swine used to tell historical events and as reworking of literature classics. Comics have showed to be on the same level of other forms of art and literature, succeeding in standing comparison as soon as them, even giving them something more. The exhibition Etruscomix, Etruria in comics, which will understand place in Rome from the 30th of June to the 25th of October, shows that comics can be compared to and inspired from a showground that is seemingly very exchange from them: archaeology.
The exhibition, which is designed 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 fixed (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 traditional to attract many visitors, both comics lovers and people considering a passion for archives and archaeology, in cheap B&B in Rome. The plates, indeed, will be displayed adjacent to the archaeological finds of the museum, giving birth to something additional and fascinating, and helping visitors to learn something more more or less Etruscan history and culture. The reproductions of the plates will be displayed after that in the new Auteur residences that hosted the six comic-strip writers (the museums of Cerveteri and Tarquinia), enriching also these museum paths.
The savings account of the exhibition is furthermore worth mentioning, as it has been realised by one of the greatest and most renowned Italian comic-strip writers: Milo Manara. The explanation 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 bitter out, is meant to entrance a window upon history. autograph album now 2 stars hotels in Rome and get ready to travel back in time!
Tickets: 4 euro, shortened 2 euro
Date: 30th June 25th October 2009
Location: National Etruscan Museum Villa Giulia, Rome, Italy
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