Campi Flegrei Park, at the Baia Castle the exhibition “Time in Ruins”.
On August 5th at 11 am at the Castello di Baia – Bacoli the inauguration of the exhibition “Il tempo in rovina” will take place. The exhibition tells, as in a sequence of frames of a film, the glorious season of the excavations of the Roman Baths of Baia and the consequent transformation of an agricultural and rural landscape into that complex archaeological design that we now call the Archaeological Park of Baia.
The photographs are those preserved in the archive of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, a partner in the project, and range from the 20s to the 60s of the twentieth century. Through 53 scenes, we see the image of the Baia slopes flowing, which until the beginning of the twentieth century was shaped by agricultural activity, chiseled by terraces set up to house vineyards or orchards and cultivated areas laboriously rescued from the rubble.
Archaeology enters the scene with exceptional protagonists and literally designs a new landscape, where ruins add a sense of time to nature.
The exhibition is completed by a multimedia installation that restores dynamism to the images and is accompanied by a catalogue that will be presented on the occasion.
The exhibition is the last stage of the “Terra” project, curated by the Campi Flegrei Archaeological Park and made possible by funding from the Campania Region. It represents the manifestation of the spirit of institutional collaboration that has made it possible to achieve important results and that will inevitably be the basis of the developments of collaboration between the Park, the Campania Region and local institutions in the near future.
Article published on 4 August 2022 - 11:58
