Art and Tourism: How images use us
February 13, 2021
As the pandemic continues and at the same time as life ever so slowly begins to creep back in stages, Italy finds itself enjoying the reopening of the nation’s museums. This is providing art with the opportunity to give life.
Viewers cross the border that separates our world from that of the painting.
The erotic and ambiguous dimension of the relationship between image and gaze is finally revealed.
The reopening of museums in most of the Italian territory bringing back art and tourism has opened a glimmer of light and hope during the long and troubled period of the COVID-19 pandemic still in progress. It is an opportunity for moral and spiritual relief for Italian and foreign art lovers who have been forced for months to dream of regaining a part of their lost freedom.