PROPHETIA | Visual journey

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A visual Journey through Prophetia

Federico Gori in dialogue with Etruscan Art

PROPHETIA

TIMELESS ENCOUNTERS Chapter II

Revolving around the universality of artistic expression through ancient and contemporary art, PROPHETIA marks the second instalment of the exhibition programme TIMELESS ENCOUNTERS 2022-2024. The new site-specific installation embodies a contemporary prophecy and evokes the spiritual chords of the ancient Etruscans, presenting Italian artist Federico Gori's (Prato, 1977) engravings on oxidised copper in dialogue with a selection of archeological artefacts from the Guarnacci Etruscan Museum.

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The intersection of temporal and spatial planes, of sky and earth, of contemporary research and ancient artworks.

The work relates to the Etruscan partition of the sky into four segments, each of which is in turn subdivided in four, corresponding to a different deity of the Etruscan pantheon.

Recalling the unity of the celestial dome, the four segments of the installation are intended to establish conceptual and visual connections to each other. Alongside the overall drawing of the sixteen copper plates, the Etruscan artefacts are placed in such a way as to enhance these relationships to display a conversation of glances and body postures that capture the spirit of a civilization still very much alive in our own time.

Resting directly upon the copper elements is a kaleidoscopic landscape of urnes, figurative fragments and amphoras in terracotta and alabaster, selected from the collection of the renowned Guarnacci Museum.

To emphasise the entanglement of all the cosmic elements within the universe, Gori's interwoven engravings together show a map of the sky corresponding to the date of July 17, 2023, in addition to natural and symbolic forms, like the feathers of different waterfowl and asphodels, references to the Etruscan cult of divination and the dead.

Prophetia develops from the core of Federico Gori's long-term investigation on the concepts of time and its multiplication, metamorphosis and transience, and the impossibility of man dominating time and matter, so often elusive to all human logic.