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Marina Bindella. Cosmografie
Around forty works by Marina Bindella — paintings, woodcuts, watercolours and large polyptych installations made from 2020 onward — exploring mark-making as a generative principle of form, light, space and cosmic structure.
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In the Àpeiron and Scripta mutant pictures, the specks that read as stardust are letters. Up close they spell àpeiron, Anaximander's word for "the boundless", or the figures of Schrödinger's and Dirac's equations. It's the only room in Villa Borghese where the fine print is quantum mechanics.
About forty works, most made since 2020, fill the Sala del Ninfeo. Bindella began in woodcut and now paints, scratches graffito and prints from corrugated cardboard and nets. The first room on the left sets her microscopic Ab origine drawings beside the orbits of Cosmogonia; the second holds the dark Mare di Dirac canvases. You finish in front of two wall-length series, Sui bordi del tempo and Gli occhi del cielo, which Eventi Culturali Magazine compares to Seurat: the marks only turn into light from a distance.
It's all abstract, so come ready to look slowly. Tickets are €7.50 (€6 reduced), free for Rome residents with ID and MIC card holders. Open Tuesday to Friday 10:00 to 16:00, weekends to 19:00.
Look for
Sui bordi del tempo and Gli occhi del cielo
Two wall-length series by the Ninfeo, built from tiny repeated marks that resolve into vibrating light only when you step back.
Ab origine beside Cosmogonia
In the first room on the left, ink drawings of cell-like, infinitely small matter hang next to dense orbits of light and shadow.
Àpeiron and Scripta mutant
Look closely: the dust of marks is made of letters spelling àpeiron and digits from Schrödinger's and Dirac's equations.
Il mare di Dirac
Canvases in the second room built from layers of dark matter whose depth you can't pin down.
Entanglement II and Lunghezza d'onda
Three-part works that map imaginary geographies, each panel seeming to carry on into the next.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Going Solo
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
Skip if
You want figures or stories: it's all abstract marks, with quantum physics as the subtext.
Free in the same building
- Andy Warhol: Madre e figlia, Tina e Lisa BilottiAndy Warhol's 1981 double portrait of Tina and Lisa Bilotti, the collector's wife and daughter, a pop-art highlight of the museum's Room 1.
- Giorgio de Chirico: Archeologi misteriosiGiorgio de Chirico's 1926 metaphysical painting of seated mannequin-archaeologists, a signature work of the Bilotti collection displayed in Room 2.
- Giorgio de Chirico: Ettore e AndromacaGiorgio de Chirico's bronze of the embracing mannequin-lovers Hector and Andromache, the one Bilotti sculpture installed outdoors beside the museum.
- Larry Rivers: Carlo con Dubuffet sullo sfondoLarry Rivers's 1994 cut-out portrait of collector Carlo Bilotti against a Dubuffet backdrop, recut along the figure and mounted like a life-size advertising figure in Room 1.
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Image credits
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- Marina Bindella. CosmografieCourtesy of Museo Carlo Bilotti
- La donazione Ennio CalabriaCourtesy of La Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM)
- Luigi & Iango. Corpi specialiCourtesy of La Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM)
- Museo Carlo BilottiKrzysztof Golik / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- La Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM)Daderot via Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Galleria BorgheseAlessio Damato, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museo dell'Ara PacisCouncil, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
- Fondazione MemmoAndre P. Meyer-Vitali, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0