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The exhibited necklace of beads originates from Funerary Complex No. 6 of Kurgan No. 4, excavated in 1982 by Dr. Habil. Eugen SAVA near the town of Taraclia. The beads were found in the chest area of the deceased, indicating that they had been worn as a necklace and had remained in their original position within the funerary assemblage.
The necklace consists of 11 elements made entirely of Egyptian faience. Eight of the beads are spherical and decorated with vertical incisions forming between 14 and 21 raised ribs. Their diameters range from 13 to 20 mm. Two additional elements are scarab representations measuring 23.5 × 19.5 mm, while the final component is a flattened cylindrical pendant bead featuring a central vertical groove and measuring 22 × 9 mm. The objects range in color from light blue to dark blue and violet hues, reflecting the natural deterioration and glaze variations characteristic of Egyptian faience.
Egyptian faience is an artificial quartz-based material coated with an alkaline glaze, typically blue or blue-green in color. It was widely used in Ancient Egypt and later spread throughout the Mediterranean and Pontic regions through trade networks. During the first centuries AD, such objects served as important indicators of cultural and economic contacts between the Mediterranean world and the communities of the North Pontic region.
Owing to its typological, technological, and symbolic characteristics, the Taraclia necklace is an exceptionally valuable artifact for the study of intercultural relations, the circulation of prestige goods, and the funerary practices of the Sarmatian communities during the first centuries AD (1st-2nd centuries AD).

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PIETRO FINELLI „NOIR TIME”

15 September - 15 October 2018

The exhibition proposes to the visitor a reflection on art and creativity of Italian artist Pietro Finelli.

The main idea of the exhibition is the dialogue between painting and cinema, life and cinema, especially "Noir" films, and Finelli being fascinated by this classic American movie. His interest in cinematography is based on a cognitive-visual process, which is increasingly triggered by this expressive environment through black and white contrasts. The artist is literally caught by this atypical way of focusing primarily on vision rather than on the subject. With some brushes on screen, Pietro Finelli creates the dark atmosphere of the mysterious "Noir" films from 1940-1950. The obscure obsession, the dark rooms, the mysterious nocturnal views of the anonymous cities, the light and the shadow, the foolish people - all these details strengthen the effect of alienation.

Pietro Finelli (1957) is a narrator of stories built on fragments of existence, motivated by the need to seek a deeper identity, a so-called "inherent substrate" that brings back the fullness of life. Finelli's art is an iconography of intuition that connects different levels of expression and repeatedly dissolves the boundaries between reality and illusion. In this way, the viewer is free to sink into an infinite sequence of meanings that are interconnected in a non-terminal process.

Pietro Finelli's work has been exhibited in national and international galleries and museums, including the New York MC Gallery, Il Ponte Contemporanea in Rome, Galerie Pack in Milan, Castel Nuovo Museum in Naples, the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum in Geneva, The FJKlemm Foundation in Buenos Aires, the Jacques Cerami Gallery in Belgium, the VELAN Contemporary Art Center in Turin, Italy.

Display period: 15 September - 15 October 2018.
Curator: Giovanni Iovane.