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Through the work of eighteen international artists, The Uncanny House exhibition aims to explore new artistic perspective related to the uncanny referred to the dome-stic environment. The “uncanny” intended as a leitmotif that nourished literary fantasy, fairy tales, horror stories, and artistic creation alike since the early 19th century takes shape within the house in Via del Corso in Rome, where Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived between 1786 and 1788. The exhibition aims to open up a dialog with the house itself, where Goethe lived over two centuries ago. Certainly, no other writer is as inextricably associated with houses as sites of literary production and “lieux de mémoire” than Goethe: the houses in Frankfurt, Weimar and, of course, in Rome, are environments that, because of their authenticity and closeness to the historical per-son, create a feeling that visitors repeatedly describe as uncanny. Additionally, many passages in Goethe’s works, for example in Faust, also...More
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Through the work of eighteen international artists, The Uncanny House exhibition aims to explore new artistic perspective related to the uncanny referred to the dome-stic environment. The “uncanny” intended as a leitmotif that nourished literary fantasy, fairy tales, horror stories, and artistic creation alike since the early 19th century takes shape within the house in Via del Corso in Rome, where Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived between 1786 and 1788. The exhibition aims to open up a dialog with the house itself, where Goethe lived over two centuries ago. Certainly, no other writer is as inextricably associated with houses as sites of literary production and “lieux de mémoire” than Goethe: the houses in Frankfurt, Weimar and, of course, in Rome, are environments that, because of their authenticity and closeness to the historical per-son, create a feeling that visitors repeatedly describe as uncanny. Additionally, many passages in Goethe’s works, for example in Faust, also...More
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