VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s Apostolic Library tapped Dior’s artistic director Maria Grazia Chiuri, Italian singer Jovanotti and Icelandic illustrator Kristjana S Williams for an exhibition exploring world excursions of the late nineteenth Century.
The exhibition, titled “En Route,” is the sixth in a sequence of occasions meant as a dialogue between the Vatican library’s heritage, relationship to the 4th century, and modern artwork.
Chiuri centered on six Victorian-era girls who defied conventions by touring the world on their very own. She labored with the Chanakya College of Craft in India to create tapestries depicting the routes they traveled.
“It was interesting to see that they immediately felt the need to change their clothes, because otherwise it was not comfortable to travel, especially by bicycle,” Chiuri informed a press preview on Friday. “The first item they took off was the corset.”
Jovanotti, a singer-songwriter and globetrotter, reveals a bicycle that he has ridden world wide, together with on journeys via China, Iran, Pakistan, New Zealand and most of Latin America. He additionally shows a disco ball that’s made right into a globe with silver mirrored panels representing the ocean, and gold ones for land.
“I favored the concept of bringing a disco ball to the Vatican,’’ he quipped.
The exhibition takes its title from a periodical by two French journalists, Lucien Leroy and Henri Papillaud, who revealed their international travels from 1895-97, partly to finance the journey. It runs from Feb. 15-Dec. 20.
