First shown at the Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice in 2010, the Arts of Piranesi exhibition continues on its travels. After Madrid (24 April – 9 September 2012) and Barcelona (9 October 2012 – 20 January 2013), where it was seen by over 250,000 visitors, the next venue for the exhibition will be the San Diego Museum of Art, where Americans will be able to admire it from 30 March to 7 July 2013.
The exhibition has been highly acclaimed by the international press. Writing in El Pais, Nobel-prize winner for literature Mario Vargas Llosa described it as an “extraordinary exhibition”. This comes after equally positive comments made elsewhere: “masterful” (The Financial Times), “spell-binding” (Le Monde) and “spectacular” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung).
The exhibition project for The Arts of Piranesi was conceived by Michele De Lucchi and produced by the Giorgio Cini Foundation and Factum Arte
in collaboration with the Exhibits Development Group. All the works on show belong to the Giorgio Cini Foundation and include 300 orginal etchings by Giambattista Piranesi selected from the most representative in the almost complete collection (Firmin Didot edition) preserved in the Institute of Art History.