Amore e Psiche. Storyboard of a Myth, springs from an articulate publishing project, Miriam Mirolla's book of the same name published from Electa. The inspiring idea consists in the reinterpretation of Apuleius' ancient fable in the manner of a film storyboard. Thus in the Rocca Albornoziana the works of art are proposed as exceptional vignettes and as viaticals of an extraordinary narrative more than two thousand years long. At the heart of the myth is the enigma of the love affair that has fascinated artists, philosophers and literary figures of all times, from Boccaccio to Shakespeare, from Virginia Woolf to Carol Gilligan.
The hypothesis behind the exhibition is explicit: contemporary art, while
having overcome the old didactic and mimetic purposes, now bases its imaginative domain on some strong mythological nodes: vision and invisibility, knowledge and unknowability, prohibition and its infringement, the yearning for immortality, and the attainment of pleasure.
The exhibition will feature the works of such leading figures of the world art scene
as Marina Abramovic, Gianfranco Baruchello,
Matthew Barney, Bernardo Bertolucci, Victor Brauner, Sandro Chia, Gino De Dominicis, Marcel Duchamp, Tracy Emin, Lucio Fontana, Massimiliano Fuksas, Paola Gandolfi, Robin Heidi Kennedy, Jeff Koons, Jannis Kounellis, Sergio Lombardo, Richard Long, Piero Manzoni, Fabio Mauri, Maurizio Mochetti, Luigi Ontani, Gina Pane, Kiki Smith, Cy Twombly.
The selected works will allow the public to understand the roots
of European culture through the most daring theories and inventions of contemporary
, thanks to a constant critical connection with myth.
The exhibition set up as part of the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto is
also enriched by the exceptional contribution of the Capitoline Museums in Rome, within which are collected some important works illustrative of myth. As the first stage of a transepocal dialogue, the Capitoline Museums lend their support to this Spoleto initiative with the aim of deepening the visual link between antiquity and contemporary art.

Thanks to: theAlbornoz Fortress Association, the Municipality of
Spoleto, the Regional Directorate of the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage
of Umbria.

Layout and graphic design to by Federico Lardera

Miriam Mirolla
is an art critic and lecturer in Theory of Perception and Psychology of Form at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, a journalist and author
radio and television.
She curated the exhibitions: "Four Italian Masters of Contemporary Art in London: Cucchi, Lombardo, Mauri, Mochetti," Italian Academy of Arts and Applied Arts, London, 1994; "Incantimi. Scenes of Art and Poetry to Bomarzo," 1995- 1996-1997 ; "Sergio Lombardo," Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, "Sapienza" University of Rome, 1995; "Art as Research. Blossoming of innovative techniques and extraordinary media," The Salt Queen Foundation, New York, 2004;
"Paola Gandolfi. Mother Machine," Ugolini Contemporary, Florence, 2007; "L'arte c'est moi," Galleria AAM, Rome, 2007; "Three Painting Cycles by Sergio Lombardo," Galleria De
Crescenzo e Viesti, Rome, 2007.
Among his recent publications: "Arte del Novecento 1945-2001," Mondadori Università, Milan, 2002; "L'Arte c'est moi. Quindici interviste sull'arte contemporanea," Avagliano Editore, Rome, 2006; "Amore e Psiche. Storyboard of a Myth," Electa, Milan, 2008.

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