Orlando Furioso Decoded

Stefano Bombardieri

a cura di Maria Livia Brunelli

Additional Info

Intoduction:
On the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of the publication of the "Orlando Furioso" by Ludovico Ariosto, Ferrara, the city that hosted the great scholar of the sixteenth century at the court of the Estensi, dedicated a series of initiatives to him. Among these, the important exhibition at Palazzo dei Diamanti, "Orlando Furioso. 500 years. What he saw Ariosto when he closed his eyes ", which opens on September 23rd. In conjunction with this event, the MLB Maria Livia Brunelli home gallery has asked some artists to confront the reading of the poem, to deepen an aspect of it that everyone felt strongly linked to their own poetics.
After Giovanna Ricotta, presented at the same time as the MAMbo of Bologna and the MLB, where her exhibition will end on 18 September, from September 23rd the Brescia artist Stefano Bombardieri will update this kaleidoscopic and surreal poem. Stefano Bombardieri, who in 2009 had enchanted citizens and tourists with the rhinoceros hanging on the Rotonda Foschini of the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, he was then protagonist of the spectacular urban exhibition of invading art "The Faunal Countdown" in 2010, populating with animals in danger of extinction, life size, the historical center of the Este city: tigers, gorillas, hippos and elephants scattered throughout the city from discover via an exciting urban safari.
Now Bombardieri will surprise the public with a totally new and quite different work: each visitor will have to use a normal app that reads the barcodes to go to the discovery of the countless characters of the various episodes of the "Orlando Furioso" , in a fascinating journey through time that highlights the complex plot of the poem. Enrich the exhibition some small sculptures-jewel inspired by hyperbolic and imaginative phrases of the "Furioso" , that can’t fail to inspire an ironic and at the same time profound artist like Stefano Bombardieri. The exhibition already enjoys the patronage of the National Committee for the celebrations of the V Centenary for the celebrations of the "Orlando Furioso".
Exhibited Works:
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Exhibition Set Up:
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Invitation to the vernissage:

On the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of the publication of the "Orlando Furioso" by Ludovico Ariosto, Ferrara, the city that hosted the great scholar of the sixteenth century at the court of the Estensi, dedicated a series of initiatives to him. Among these, the important exhibition at Palazzo dei Diamanti, "Orlando Furioso. 500 years. What he saw Ariosto when he closed his eyes ", which opens on September 23rd. In conjunction with this event, the MLB Maria Livia Brunelli home gallery has asked some artists to confront the reading of the poem, to deepen an aspect of it that everyone felt strongly linked to their own poetics.
After Giovanna Ricotta, presented at the same time as the MAMbo of Bologna and the MLB, where her exhibition will end on 18 September, from September 23rd the Brescia artist Stefano Bombardieri will update this kaleidoscopic and surreal poem. Stefano Bombardieri, who in 2009 had enchanted citizens and tourists with the rhinoceros hanging on the Rotonda Foschini of the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, he was then protagonist of the spectacular urban exhibition of invading art "The Faunal Countdown" in 2010, populating with animals in danger of extinction, life size, the historical center of the Este city: tigers, gorillas, hippos and elephants scattered throughout the city from discover via an exciting urban safari.
Now Bombardieri will surprise the public with a totally new and quite different work: each visitor will have to use a normal app that reads the barcodes to go to the discovery of the countless characters of the various episodes of the "Orlando Furioso" , in a fascinating journey through time that highlights the complex plot of the poem. Enrich the exhibition some small sculptures-jewel inspired by hyperbolic and imaginative phrases of the "Furioso" , that can’t fail to inspire an ironic and at the same time profound artist like Stefano Bombardieri. The exhibition already enjoys the patronage of the National Committee for the celebrations of the V Centenary for the celebrations of the "Orlando Furioso".

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