{"id":147481,"date":"2025-09-19T11:22:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2025\/09\/alessandria-degitto-geografia-e-mistero-al-museo-greco-romano\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:28:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:28:49","slug":"alessandria-degitto-geografia-e-mistero-al-museo-greco-romano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/diplomazia-culturale\/2025\/09\/alessandria-degitto-geografia-e-mistero-al-museo-greco-romano\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandria, Egypt \u2013 \u201cGeography and Mystery\u201d at the Graeco-Roman Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Italian Cultural Institute in Cairo,<\/strong> with the support of the <strong>Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture<\/strong> and in collaboration with <strong>Art D\u2019\u00c9gypte<\/strong>, has presented the exhibition \u201cGeography and Mystery\u201d, curated by Alessandro Castiglioni, at the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria, Egypt. The exhibition is dedicated <strong>to the photographic work of Marina Ballo Charmet and Stefano Cagol<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition project emerged from research conducted both in Italy and at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. It establishes a dialogue between two leading figures of contemporary Italian photography\u2014Marina Ballo Charmet and Stefano Cagol\u2014and the themes of physical geography, <strong>archaeological discoveries, and historical traces that intertwine the past and future of the Mediterranean.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Marina Ballo Charmet is one of the most important living Italian photographers.<\/strong> Her work focuses on everyday life, approached with a mobile, slightly out-of-focus gaze that creates a floating, peripheral vision, drawing from the preconscious. <strong>Stefano Cagol is an artist, researcher, and curator<\/strong> known for his geopolitical exploration of places and experiences, expressed through travel and performative practices. It is particularly significant that the exhibition is hosted at the <strong>Graeco-Roman Museum, founded in 1891 at the initiative of Italian Egyptologist Giuseppe Botti.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Italian Cultural Institute in Cairo, with the support of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture and in collaboration with Art D\u2019\u00c9gypte, has presented the exhibition \u201cGeography and Mystery\u201d, curated by Alessandro Castiglioni, at the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria, Egypt. The exhibition is dedicated to the photographic work of Marina [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[32,6],"class_list":["post-147481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomazia-culturale","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147481","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147484,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147481\/revisions\/147484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}