Mythical diary : sculptures from the Farnese collection
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Mythical diary : sculptures from the Farnese collection
Museo archeologico nazionale di Napoli , 5 Continents, c2017
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Photographic series 2002-2010" -- Colophon
Includes bibliographical references (p. 11)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Mythical Diary is a visual journey through the classical sculpture of Museo Archeologico
Nazionale di Napoli. It is a physical engagement with the marble bodies of myth.
Through his black and white photography, Luigi Spina disassembles the limbs of the sculptures,
emphasising their curves and hidden eroticism, humanising them to establish a dialogue with
the observer.
A sculpture is the sign of eternal, unchanging beauty: the only real evidence of the many lives
that have passed and come to an end leaving a profound mark in the story of many other
existences. For Spina, with his own vision of sculpture, a statue of Aphrodite is not merely a
stereotypical portrayal of myth. In it are gathered the anxieties, dreams, hopes and joys of all
those who have set eyes on her and dreamed or studied her. In a way, classical sculpture is
profoundly present in our veins, in our very breath.
The project takes the form of an imaginary diary covering fifteen days. But this is only an
ephemeral period of time, a convention. The whole work developed over a period of days
and months amounting to years, always in contact with the circumscribed space made of
myriad lives and stories, which we call a museum.
In Mythical Diary, Spina attempts to make classical sculpture interact with the viewer's desire
to be a part of this ancient world that has always influenced our way of life, our culture and
our society, proving itself to be contemporary with any period.
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