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For once, we switch off the light to illuminate, and switch it on to tell a story.
Giulio Manfredi exhibition | © Davide Groppi srl | All Rights Reserved
Giulio Manfredi exhibition
Milano, Italy / 2022

The exhibition “Gioielli di Giulio Manfredi celebrano Raffaello. Scuola di Luce” (Jewels by Giulio Manfredi celebrate Raphael. School of Light) curated by Alberto Rocca and Arnaldo Colasanti, at the Ambrosian Library, Milan.

On display in the ‘Sala del Cartone di Raffaello’ (“Raphael’s Cartoon Room”), the artistic installation consists of twenty-one drawings for twenty-one sophisticated jewels, corresponding to as many of the characters in the cartoon itself, for the Vatican fresco by the School of Athens.
The scenography embraces the whole room, offering visitors an unimaginable surprise: Raphael’s Cartoon and Manfredi’s jewels become a single artistic installation. The dark space and dazzling light of the Cartoon overlap in a labyrinthine mirror. More than an illustration of the work of this Renaissance maestro, the jewels become a sublime and unrepeatable product of Raphael’s imagination. Visitors can enjoy an aesthetic and equally ecstatic experience of the full integration of art with life.
The exhibition was set up on portable screens, as after Milan it will be on show in Tokyo and New York.
cf. Arch Carlo Ponzini

15 September 2022 - 31 January 2023
Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Piazza Pio XI 2, 20123 Milan

Project
Arch. Carlo Ponzini
Light Project
Davide Groppi
Photographer
Fausto Mazza
Giulio Manfredi exhibition | © Davide Groppi srl | All Rights Reserved
Giulio Manfredi exhibition | © Davide Groppi srl | All Rights Reserved
Giulio Manfredi exhibition | © Davide Groppi srl | All Rights Reserved
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