Conceptual Animals at Antica Libreria Cascianelli in Rome

Animals have inhabited and sometimes haunted the human imagination since the emergence of symbolic thought and language. An antique bookshop in the heart of Rome that looks as popping out from Balzac’s novel The Magic Skin. An art curator and travelling reporter who thinks that all the places you can imagine are real. The exhibition The Conceptual Animal transforms Antica Libreria Cascianelli - just behind Navona square and beside the entrance of the archaelogical site of Domitian Stadium – into a contemporary wunderkammer. Humanitas and Animalia meet in an unexpected setting; concocted not by the means of a weird genetic engineering  but through the language of art: Marco Brandizzi and Laura Palmieri, the artists engaged in this two person show, play with the imagery and the concept of animals in an exhibition curated by Fabio Sindici that is designed by stage designer Valentina La Rocca (Libreria Cascianelli co-owner).