59 Carla Panicali’s Bag
A symbolic object: a “bag”: an allegorical container of ideas and cultural ideas that could hardly contain the intellectual effervescence of Carla Panicali.
“Incursions in space” is how Maria Dompè defines the transformation of the environment where the work is created by and for a specifically chosen space.
Since 1989 Maria Dompè has created n°69 “incursions in space” identifiable in a cataloguing of environmental and landscape art.
A symbolic object: a “bag”: an allegorical container of ideas and cultural ideas that could hardly contain the intellectual effervescence of Carla Panicali.
The first “Garden of the Soul”, a permanent outdoor, green work by Maria Dompè, finds a Roman consecration in the external gardens of GNAM (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna of Rome).
Un invito raccolto dall'artista Maria Dompè, a trasformare uno spazio inaccessibile, già coltivazione di palme, in un sito dedicato alla fruizione della cultura del verde.
In a controversial and debatable edition of the Art Biennale of Venice, chaotic and consequently at odds with the appreciation of the content, Dompè ensnares and annihilates the visitors with the simple purity of an image.
Extraordinary among men, devoted to holiness: Pope John Paul II; a palace of catalyzing architecture:
La mer-la dentelle, la dentelle-la mer ( the sea-the lace, the lace-the sea) was an event organized by the city of Calais in collaboration of Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as a prelude to the inauguration of the new museum.
The biomorphic white space of the former Elettrofonica Gallery of Rome, for its inauguration, from the 12th to the 30th of March 2009, hosted the organza and orchids of a new incursion in space by Maria Dompè.
Located in one of the principal places of Christianity, the garden of the convent of the Passionate Fathers of the Holy Stairs is one of the works realized by Maria Dompè.
"Remember and hope": this was the phrase that Alex Salamone chose to remember the victims of the attack of 11 September 2001 on the Twin Towers, his father was among them.
Icon of democracy and peaceful protest. Aung Sang Suu Kyi, held for twelve years as a hostage by the Burmese military, survives like a flower in a winter frost: crushed by violence, but uplifted by the power of ideas.