09.01.2025
Dante Desire Line Poetry Path
A new work for LAVINIA
LAVINIA’s first gusto, «orange and lemon verbena», will be completed with Dante Desire Line Poetry Path by Ross Birrell & David Harding, opening on Sunday, January 19, 2025, from 11:30 AM to 5:00 PM.
Dedicated to the idea of selfless love — from the ancient Greek concept of agape to the Roman sense of pietas — the work will create a hinge between the Loggia dei Vini and the everyday rhythms of Villa Borghese.
The walk begins at the gate on Via dell’Uccelliera and an improvised path the British call the Path of Desire, one of the many marked in parks as short cuts through the nearly always right-angle paths laid out by the architects.
Thanks to the work of Ross Birrell & David Harding that brings us directly in front of the Loggia dei Vini, this is where the beginning of LAVINIA materializes, reading a fragment of Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova: "there was no man mine enemy any longer; and such warmth of charity came upon me that most certainly in that moment I would have pardoned whosoever had done me an injury; and if one should then have questioned me concerning any matter, I could only have said unto him 'Love'".
Still on view: Ross Birrell & David Harding, Enzo Cucchi, Piero Golia, Gianni Politi, Monika Sosnowska
Still on view: Ross Birrell & David Harding, Enzo Cucchi, Piero Golia, Johanna Grawunder, Gianni Politi
Still on view: Ross Birrell & David Harding,
Enzo Cucchi, Piero Golia, Johanna Grawunder,
Gianni Politi, Monika Sosnowska