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Date: from 2014-09-20 to 2015-02-22

Opening times

20 September, 2014 - 22 February, 2015

Monday - Friday: 10.00-20.00 (last admission 19.00)
Saturday - Sunday: 10.00-21.00 (last admission 20.00)

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Address

Address: Arco della Pace, 5
Zone: Rione Ponte (Via Coronari-Ponte Vittorio) (Roma centro)

Information

- Full price € 13.00 (audio guide included)
- Reduced price € 11.00 (audio guide included)
Senior citizens over 65 years (with valid ID); young people 11-18 years (with valid ID); students under 26 years (with valid ID); forces of law and order and the military with valid ID; Disabled visitors
- Reduced price for Groups € 10.00
booking required, min 15 max 25 pax, miking obligatory
- Reduced price for Children € 5.00 from 4 to 11 years
- Reduced price for Schools € 5.00
booking required min 15 max 25 pax,
- Elementary School € 3.00 (booking required min 15 max 25 pax)
- Special Reduced € 9.00 (audio guide included)
Tourist guides, without a group; Journalists with regular license of the National Order

Free admission for (audio guide included)
- Children under 4
- 1 person accompanying each booked group
- Teachers accompanying students (2 each groups)
- ICOM card holders
- Free admission for the person accompanying the disable visitors
- Arthemisia Group Vip card holders
- Amici del Chiostro del Bramante card holders
- Coupon invitation

Booking fee and advance:
- Groups and individuals € 1.50 each person
- Schools € 1.00 each student

Guided tours (excluding ticket prices, booking required min 15 max 25, miking required)
- Schools € 80.00
- Groups € 100.00
- Foreign Language € 110.00

DIDACTIC SERVICES
- For children from 4 to 11 years
(excluding ticket prices, reservations required min 15 max 25 pax)
- Workshops | Interactive tour € 100.00

MIKING
- Groups € 30.00
- Schools € 15.00

Contacts

Telephone: +39 06 916508451 info e prenotazioni
Fax: .
Email: didattica@arthemisia.it (per la didattica)
Online purchase: http://www.ticket.it/escher/

Description

With over one hundred and fifty works, including some of his most famous masterpieces such as Hand with Reflecting Sphere (M.C. Escher Foundation), Day and Night (Bressanone, Giudiceandrea Collection), Another World II (Bressanone, Giudiceandrea Collection), Relativity (Bressanone, Giudiceandrea Collection), a major anthological exhibition devoted entirely to the Dutch engraver and graphic artist is opening in Rome, putting his artistic language into context and recounting the network of seemingly incompatible cultural worlds which, thanks to his art and creative drive, achieve harmony in a decidedly unique visual dimension.

It is no coincidence that Escher’s attraction to the extraordinary and the unusual first took root in his heart and mind as a result of his amazement at the beauty of Italian landscapes, from the countryside around Siena and the intensity of the sea at Tropea to the precipitous cliffs in Castrovalva and the anthropomorphic mountains of Pentadattilo. His gaze, which unearthed the symmetry of volumes, the unexpected dimension of the spaces and the historic depth of the towns and villages, extended over these landscapes. It was his familiarity with these places, which differed so significantly from the gentle flatness of his native Holland, which laid the foundations of an artistic career that ventured into the boundless fields of geometry and crystallography, becoming fertile ground for intellectual games where the imagination reigned supreme. In fact, Escher’s eyes were able to grasp the reality of the geometric mesh behind things, using it as the basis for his compositions to construct what he would later refer to as “interior images”.

When he left Italy forever, Escher travelled to Cordova and the Alhambra in 1936, where tessellation – the key attraction in the decoration of those Moorish monuments – triggered another creative process that coincided with the re-emergence of the Art Nouveau aspect of his artistic training.
The exhibition narrative literally follows the eyes of Escher, who always drew his inspiration from the direct and detailed observation of nature, in the wake of the enchantment that the Italian landscape held for him. The eyes of the great artist therefore rested on the wonders offered by glimpses of Italy, as well as on the little things, from blowballs to beetles, from leaves to grasshoppers, lizards and crystals, which he observed as extraordinary pieces of natural architecture.
The exhibition devoted to this great scholar, a magician of hyper-evocative design, uses Escher’s works to convey the interpenetration of simultaneous worlds, the continuous passage between three-dimensional and two-dimensional objects, but also his research into Gestalt – the psychology of shape that focused on themes of perception –, the mathematical and geometric implications of his art, the principles of visual perception and the effect that his work had on the society of the time.
The exhibition also includes a number of comparative works, including pieces by Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, Giacomo Balla and Luca Maria Patella.

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