19 December 2018 > 24 March 2019
Venice, Palazzo Fortuny
The guided tout in this amazing exhibition leads visitors over the centuries, focusing the concept of “ruins”and its aesthetic on salient points, from the first mythologies of destruction as an effect of divine wrath (the Tower of Babel, Sodom and Gomorra, etc.) to the “iconoclastic terrorism” of Palmyra, including ancient Egypt, Greco-Roman antiquity, and so on, untill twentieth-century destruction by war and the ruins of the Twin Towers. When architecture collapses it evokes the decadence of the civilisations that produced it, as well as the transience of human life, while also the historical alternation between crisis and rebirth, memory and new projects.
For adults
Languages: Italian, English, French
Lenght: 2 hours
Costs
- 100 euros for groups up to 25 people
For school and Universities
Target: Senior secondary schools (pupils aged 15+) and Higher Education System (universities etc.)
Lenght: 2 hours
Costs
- 80 euros for a class of up to 25 students
Further information
Write us at education@fmcvenezia.it
Telephone: +39 0412700370
(9.30-12.30 Monday to Friday; Tuesdays and Thursday, also 2pm to 4pm)