Exhibition-related films are free with museum admission. Advance reservations for Members only. Tickets are available at the Admission Desk on the day of the screening.
Introduced by John Marciari
The Sound of the Carceri (François Girard/1998/55minutes) explores the relationship between art, architecture, and music with Yo-Yo Ma performing Bach in a digital three-dimensional rendering of Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s Carceri, the imaginary prisons found in his etchings. Preceding the screening, John Marciari, Charles W. Engelhard Curator and Department Head, Drawings and Prints, the Morgan Library & Museum, will talk about Piranesi’s dark and haunting world seen in the Carceri. He will juxtapose these images with Piranesi’s fantastical and imaginative depictions of Rome and the serene and factual images of Paestum seen in the exhibition Piranesi and the Temples of Paestum: Drawings from Sir John Soane’s Museum.
The exhibition Piranesi and the Temples of Paestum: Drawings from Sir John Soane’s Museum will be open at 6 p.m. for program attendees.
The Sound of the Carceri. Image courtesy of Bulldog Films.