MLB Maria Livia Brunelli Home Gallery (Ferrara, Italy) is delighted to present the exhibition “Orlando Furioso decoded” by Italian artist Stefano Bombardieri, from September 23th to December 04th 2016.
On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the publication of the epic poem “Orlando Furioso” by Ludovico Ariosto, in conjunction with the great exhibition dedicated to him at Palazzo dei Diamanti (Ferrara, Italy), MLB Maria Livia Brunelli Home Gallery has produced 3 different site specific exhibitions that analyze and are inspired by Ariosto’s masterpiece.
“Orlando Furioso decoded” is the second show from this cycle and it offers to visitors Bombardieri’s contemporary homage to the surreal and kaleidoscopic Ariosto’s poem.
The new artworks by Stefano Bombardieri, specifically created for the MLB Gallery, include an immersive mirror installation focused on the poem’s words of grief and suffering provoked by unattainable desires of unrequited love and fame. Orlando, the protagonist of the poem, becomes “furious” because her beloved Angelica doesn’t love him, and she drives him mad.
A constellation of bar codes invites visitor to discover, through a mobile app, all the characters from “Orlando Furioso” and their stories. As in a time travel, the intricate plot of the poem is disclosed, showing the perfect fragmentized and multi-facets balance generated by all the interconnected episodes.
The show includes a series of little jewel-sculptures inspired by hyperbolic and surreal sentences of the poem. These paradoxical quotes enlighten the deep irony of Ariosto and his belief of not overcoming the limits of a “fair balance”.
Stefano Bombardieri – Orlando Furioso decoded
23.09.2016 – 04.12.2016
Images courtesy of Stefano Bombardieri and MLB Maria Livia Brunelli Home Gallery
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