{"id":128207,"date":"2024-12-10T10:12:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T09:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2024\/12\/caravaggio-in-mostra-a-seoul\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T11:21:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T10:21:33","slug":"caravaggio-in-mostra-a-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/diplomazia-culturale\/2024\/12\/caravaggio-in-mostra-a-seoul\/","title":{"rendered":"Caravaggio on show in Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 19 November last, the exhibition <strong>\u201cThe Master of Light: Caravaggio and His Descendants\u201d<\/strong> was inaugurated at the Hangaram Museum in Seoul<strong>. Open to the public until 30 March<\/strong>, the event, which has been produced by Korean partner Acts Management in collaboration with the cultural association Metamorfosi and supported by the<strong> Italian Cultural Institute of Seoul, <\/strong>under the patronage of the<strong> Italian Embassy<\/strong>, is <strong>culturally relevant<\/strong> for <strong>relations<\/strong> between <strong>Italy<\/strong> and <strong>South Korea<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in Korea, such a significant number of works by <strong>Caravaggio<\/strong> \u2013 including <strong>\u201cBoy bitten by a lizard\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 and the <strong>artists of the Caravaggio school<\/strong> are on public display.<\/p>\n<p>Curated by <strong>Pierluigi Carofano<\/strong>, this exhibition invites visitors to simultaneously discover <strong>Caravaggio<\/strong> and the echo of his art through the \u201c<strong>Caravaggisti<\/strong>\u201d, i.e. artists who were inspired by the master\u2019s revolutionary genius and furthered his innovative language. Among the works on display, audiences can admire the masterpieces of artists such as<strong> Orazio<\/strong> <strong>Gentileschi<\/strong>, <strong>Guercino<\/strong>, <strong>Annibale<\/strong> and <strong>Ludovico Carracci<\/strong>, <strong>Cavalier d\u2019Arpino<\/strong>, <strong>Mattia Preti<\/strong>, <strong>Fede Galizia<\/strong> and many others, each bearing witness to the profound cultural and stylistic influence of Caravaggio.<\/p>\n<p>The opening was attended by the Italian Ambassador, <strong>Emilia Gatto<\/strong>, the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, <strong>Michela Linda<\/strong> <strong>Magr\u00ec<\/strong>, the President of Act Management, <strong>Minhee<\/strong> <strong>Kim<\/strong>, and the President of Metamorfosi, <strong>Pietro<\/strong> <strong>Folena<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On 18 and 19 December, there will also be two theatrical performances, with Italian actor <strong>Cesare Capitani <\/strong>playing<strong> Caravaggio<\/strong>, in which audiences will be able to relive the master\u2019s story.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 19 November last, the exhibition \u201cThe Master of Light: Caravaggio and His Descendants\u201d was inaugurated at the Hangaram Museum in Seoul. Open to the public until 30 March, the event, which has been produced by Korean partner Acts Management in collaboration with the cultural association Metamorfosi and supported by the Italian Cultural Institute of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":128198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[45,32],"class_list":["post-128207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomazia-culturale","tag-asia-e-oceania","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128208,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128207\/revisions\/128208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}