STAR WARS. PLAY

Some exhibitions illustrate stories of great painters, others are devoted to artistic movements, and then there are exhibitions you visit to have fun, and inside it you can find a piece of history of cinema and popular culture.
In this post I’ll talk about an exhibition made up of toys created for the Star Wars Saga, but which have become a piece of history of contemporary culture.
Star Wars. Play is on show in Rome, at the Vittoriano, from October 28^th 2016 to January 29^th 2017.

If you are a Star Wars fan, you can’t miss this exhibition.
It displays a small part of the private collection of Fabrizio Modina, who is one of the most important science fiction memorabilia collectors in the world, and professor of Fashion Design at the IED of Turin.

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LEGO ON EXHIBITION: CITY LEGO, THE BIGGEST CITY IN THE WORLD MADE WITH LEGO BRICKS

I’ve always envied those who are able to build imaginary worlds using the famous Lego bricks.
At most, I’ve built the walls of a house, but I’ve never been able to finish the roof!

From December 8^th 2016 to February 26^th 2017 Rome hosts an exhibition entitled City Lego, a project by LAB, Literally Addicted to Bricks, that reproduces an imaginary city, using 7 million LEGO© bricks.

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DADA 1916: THE BIRTH OF AN ARTISTIC MOVEMENT WHICH WANTED TO BE ANTI-ART

2016 is the year of Dada movement, because this year we celebrate the 100^th anniversary of the birth of the artistic movement born in Zurich in 1916.
After the events dedicated to this anniversary arranged in Zurich, where the movement was born, Italy celebrates this anniversary with an exhibition in Brescia, as well.
I wrote a post about the meaning of the term “Dada” and the importance of the Dada movement, but this exhibition marks the strong connection between this artistic movement and Italy, because Dadaists have points in common with the artists of the Futurist movement, which was born in Italy some years before 1916.

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