Rome s Villa Borghese park hosts open-air art exhibition
17 May, 2021
An outdoor festival of contemporary art and music in Villa Borghese.
Rome s Villa Borghese park is hosting the second edition of Back to Nature, a free outdoor exhibition project curated by art critic Costantino D Orazio.
The popular Roman park hosts outdoor installations that reflect on the relationship between humans and nature, on display among the trees until 25 July.
Long record of crafts documenting history in the making
While the knitted data-collecting creature may conjure mythical monsters, textile and knitting artists themselves have populated mythology and fiction.
The threads or yarns of the Greek Fates controlled human destiny; in Homer s Ulysses, Penelope prolongs her weaving to protect herself from forced marriage; and Arachne, a mortal master-weaver is turned into a spider for depicting a less-than-flattering history of the gods. In Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities, the unsuspected French revolutionary Madame Defarge covertly codes a hit list in her knitting.
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