Le Violon d'Ingres, Medici Villa, Rome: 12 October 2018-13 January 2019

This exhibition  pays tribute to the heritage of Villa Medici, with the aim of bringing together the art of the past and the contemporary, creating a bold and unexpected dialogue, focusing  on the figure of Victor Hugo and on a rigorous and surprising selection of his drawings by many contemporary artists.

The  exhibition presents at the same time the passions and obsessions, often unknown to the public, of extraordinary figures such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett, Sergueï Mikhailovich Eisenstein, Federico Fellini, Jean Genet, Franz Kafka, Pierre Klossowski, Carlo Levi, Nelson Mandela, Louise Michel, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Arnold Schönberg, and contemporaries Etel Adnan, Chantal Akerman, Chris Kraus, Pierre Guyotat, Abbas Kiarostami, David Lynch, Patti Smith and Robert Wilson.

The project intends to show how the idea of artistic creation can not be reduced or pigeonholed into disciplinary grids, but finds its own life from other fields. Violon d'Ingres is conceived around works of art ranging from installations to paintings, drawings, tapestries, sculptures, moving images