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The show

Palazzo Merulana, in synergy with Coopculture and the Elena and Claudio Cerasi Foundation, with the patronage of the Municipality of Rome I Center and the Enpam Foundation, and with the support of ATAC SpA - Enpam's mobility company, of Ce.IS don Mario Picchi ETS and Piazza Vittorio APS, in collaboration with Piazza della Salute, is pleased to present the Urban Technologies exhibition curated by Luca Ceresoli and Serenella Di Marco, which opens on Thursday 8 June at 18.00 and which will be open to the public until Sunday 3 September 2023.

The project investigates the relationship between metropolitan development and technologies over time, through the visual arts. This dialogue is subjected to historical and social analysis, since all three areas are strongly interconnected.

In the year in which the centenary of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century in Italy, Italo Calvino, is celebrated, Palazzo Merulana is configured precisely as the ideal space in which to graft and trigger Urban Technologies thanks to its history and its very nature, the whose vocation, since its opening, is to become an interpreter and popularizer of contemporary artistic practices linked to the community and the territory and enhancing its resources and relationships.

With his "Invisible Cities", the writer has traced a geography of thought and imagination no less concrete than the real one, and in the same way Palazzo Merulana, leader of the new DMO EsCo, will host the entire project both within the its exhibition environments and outside, in other squares and urban dimensions of the historic district in which it is located, the Esquiline, creating a dense network of exchanges and connections with the surrounding area. The Urban Technologies network branches out into five distinct actions which, while manifesting themselves in different combinations, constitute the synthesis of the investigation: "memory", "street art", "social", "inspiration", "new technologies".

From historical artists present in the permanent collection, such as Giorgio De Chirico and Franco Gentilini to living artists who have already exhibited at Palazzo Merulana, such as Bruno Aller; from international street artists such as Insane51, Invader and Krayon, influenced by digital manipulations, to Nuvola Project and the performer Francesca Fini, who work with big data and the metaverse; from the work of Lorenzo Romito dedicated to second generation migrants, to the artists participating in the “Strada maestra” project of Arci Solidarietà Onlus supported by the 8×1000 of the Waldensian Church, in collaboration with Binario95; from Tommy Nicoletti, artist of the Cervelli Ribelli Foundation, a reality committed to the social and work inclusion of people with neurodiversity, up to Antonia Ciampi, who manipulates elements of road signs to spread universal messages.

A multidisciplinary path that confronts as many voices as possible in the urban panorama and returns an organic, material and immaterial vision together.

The exhibition will be accompanied by some in-depth educational appointments with a calendar of visits guided by the curators, extra-curricular activities dedicated to local schools and in collaboration with the DMS EsCo and a reading by La setta dei poeti estinti dedicated to "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino.

The project was carried out with the help and support of the technical sponsors:Claudio MannoiaPromu – All for musicTecnology srl

The exhibition is included in the Palazzo Merulana Collection + Exhibition admission ticket

Full price €10.00

Reduced € 8.00 (Young people under 26, adults over 65, active teachers, Cartax2 holders, Lazio Youth card holders) Free (children under 7, one teacher for every 10 students, one carer for every 10 people, disabled with carer , Palazzo Merulana Pass and Palazzo Merulana Young Pass holders, ICOM members, tourist guides with license)

Booking fee €2.00

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