On the occasion of the European Heritage Days 2025, the Hendrik Christian Andersen House Museum, directed by Maria Giuseppina Di Monte and belonging to the Pantheon and Castel Sant'Angelo Institute - National Museums of the City of Rome led by Luca Mercuri, presents the solo exhibition of Manuela Bedeschi Eutopia, curated by Maria Giuseppina Di Monte and Valentina Filamingo.

As a consolidated practice, Manuela Bedeschi, an artist always engaged in a research where light is the fundamental and active, tangible and real element, prevalent, if not exclusive, in the works of the last twenty-five years, places luminous installations in the halls of the House Museum as if to underline "the new expressive and significant potential connected to the place where it manifests itself with a presence never negligible. This relocation, charging itself with the energies of its surroundings and specific environmental connotations, intercepts an expansion of meaning that the word itself already possesses" (Matteo Galbiati).

Thinking about the visions of Hendrik Christian Andersen, whose interdisciplinary eclecticism led him to transform utopian ideas and dreams into concrete forms through matter, Bedeschi reflected on the visionary work of the artist who, as a painter and sculptor, bridged a gap between an old nineteenth-century Symbolism and the revolutionary aesthetic forms of the early twentieth century. In his large monumental sculptures, whose bodies display the virtues of classical heroic nudity, Hendrik not only affirms the intuition of an ideal beauty but seeks the testimony of a humanity that renews and rediscovers itself by uniting in universal art and culture. With the visionary urbanistic utopia of his World City, Andersen sought to develop his convictions even more concretely through an architecture capable of inspiring universal brotherhood.

Thus, the exhibition Eutopia - a title that transcribes the Greek word opposite to utopia (no place) and which means and identifies, instead, the good place, intending a place of serenity and fulfilled happiness - for Bedeschi becomes an opportunity to exhibit luminous installations in peculiar points of the museum, constructing a site-specific path that, due to the polysemy of language, interfaces with the poetics of Hendrik Andersen and with the collection of the House Museum.