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Italian Design Day 2021 – inaugurated the photographic exhibition “Form and light, the sign of a continuous architecture” by photographer Camilla Borghese, in the presence of the author

On the occasion of the Italian Design Day 2021, in the Italian Embassy in Sofia was inaugurated the photographic exhibition “Form and light, the sign of a continuous architecture” by photographer Camilla Borghese, with the participation of the Italian artist and the Art Gallery of Rome Spazio Nuovo.

The exhibition, organized by the Italian Embassy in Bulgaria and the Italian Cultural Institute in Sofia on the occasion of the Italian Day of Design – 2021, is printed on large panels, displayed outside the Embassy on Parizh Street and can be visited freely until August 21.

“If it is difficult the new in Rome, despite brave new contemporary architecture, however, a new look is possible and it is this that Camilla Borghese offers us and that I am particularly happy to propose here, in one of the oldest capitals of Europe, because if the artistic and archaeological heritage is an essential basis, it is the present that we live and interpret,” said during the inauguration the Ambassador Giuseppina Zarra. “As the great urban architect Giancarlo De Carlo said, you don’t make a revolution with revolutions but by proposing new solutions, and Rome is the city where you can admire and study architectural solutions that not only are useful but also beautiful, from the foundation to the present day.”

Camilla Borghese is an architectural photographer based in Rome, Italy, where she was born in 1977. In 2005 she received a Master’s degree in Conservation of Artistic Heritage from Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. Since the early 2000s she has been interested in photography, which turned into a professional activity while Camilla worked at Andrea Jemolo’s studio. In 2007 she starts her own activity.

The works of Camilla Borghese propose a reflection on the continuity of the most properly classical architectural lines that cross a timeline of centuries, changing and renewing themselves in a continuous rebirth thanks to the sign of great authors who have been able to collect the legacy of their predecessors, reworking and rethinking it in the highest and most imaginative ways. Over the centuries, these great works of architecture have been a source of inspiration and have themselves intertwined with the culture of fashion and furnishings, with design in the mechanical industry and in the field of architecture, in a dialogue destined to produce ever new ideas.

As the great architect Louis Khan argued, “Structure creates light. A column next to a column brings light into the interval: shadow and light, shadow and light, shadow and light.”

Each form generates its own light that makes its way in a perpetual dialogue with the shifting of the sun in the passage of time. We can’t help but feel the pleasure of listening to it.

Video presentation of the exhibition in the interview of the Ambassador Giuseppina Zarra and the author Camilla Borghese for the Bulgarian National Television.