“Raffaello and his virgins”, in Tecnópolis | An exhibition that brings together the great Italian painter

Tecnópolis adds attractions. The great art, science, technology and sustainability fair that reopened to the public last weekend – official sources say in the first two days it was visited by more than sixty thousand people-, adds to his great proposal a excellent exhibition of Italian Renaissance art. Raphael and his virgins. Reflections of Heaven on Earth, is the name of the exhibition that can be visited from this Friday until November 28 on the grounds of Villa Martelli. Innovative multimedia exhibit features stunningly faithful reproductions of the original works Raphael Sanzio, the great Italian painter. Designed and produced by RAI.COM, arrives in Argentina promoted by Ministry of External Affairs Italian and organized by the Italian Institute of Culture in Buenos Aires, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of the Nation.

On Thursday 7 at noon, the exhibition was inaugurated in an act attended by the brand new Ambassador of Italy in Argentina, Fabrice Lucentini; the Minister of Culture of the Nation, Tristan bauer; the director of the Italian Institute of Culture of Buenos Aires, Donatella Cannova, and the director of Tecnópilis, Maria Rosenfeldt. “I have been in Buenos Aires for five weeks and this is the second time that I have participated in a public event, in both cases linked to the culture. This shows where they come from, above all, the links that unite us with Italians and Argentines, ”said Lucentini. Bauer, for his part, stressed the importance of continuing to cultivate these cultural links between Italy and Argentina and recalled that a few days ago the exhibition was inaugurated at the Kirchner Cultural Center Blood speaks, about the architect, artist and designer Clorindo Testa, also in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in Argentina. “Here in Tecnópolis, with Raffaello, we evoke this Italian Renaissance at a time of rebirth for us, after so much suffering and so much loss. Like then, also now art must be central “.

Previously, the director of Tecnópolis welcomed those present. “This sample coincides with the spirit of Tecnópolis also in how we should transfer the awareness to different audiences, in an innovative way, with a documentary look, ”said Rosenfeldt. In the same vein, the director of the Italian Institute of Culture in Buenos Aires affirmed that in a context such as the current one, in which we are beginning to overcome a pandemic, culture serves to think new models of humanity and in this sense the union between art and technology is very important for the democratization of culture. “Thanks to an innovative scanning and printing process, it is possible to produce reproductions that are very faithful to the original and thus be able to reach a large audience all over the world. The works in this exhibition can be found in different museums around the world and if not, they could hardly be appreciated as a whole, as is possible here, ”said Cannova, who immediately led the tour of the exhibition as a guide.

Raphael and his virgins. Reflections of Heaven on Earth It is a traveling exhibition which passed through Moscow, Lyon, Mexico and that after Buenos Aires we can see in Cordoba. Created in 2020 to mark the 500th anniversary of the death of Rafaello Sanzio, it exhibits nineteen life-size reproductions, backlit, with particular attention to the famous “Madonna” of the architect and painter born in Urbino in 1483. The original curatorship of the project is Antonio Paolucci, art historian and one of the great specialists of the Italian Renaissance, formerly Minister of Culture of Italy and director of the Vatican Museums.

The route of the exhibition goes from first works, like the Madonna Conestabile –A tondo of reduced dimensions which is now on display at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg–, even the movement The transfiguration, a piece from the Vatican Pinacoteca, Raffaello’s last work before his death in Rome at the age of 37. In the middle you can see among other samples of singular beauty the Goldfinch Madonna, today at the Museo degli Uffizi, in Florence; The beautiful garden girl, kept in the Louvre; the Madonna of Foligno, from the Vatican Pinacoteca, and the invaluable Madonna of the Chair, part of the collection of the Palatine Gallery of the Pitti Palace, Florence. The complement of the sample is the “interactive cube”, a multimedia installation that thanks to a touch screen allows to analyze in detail the exhibited works.