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In Greek mythology, Aura is a nymph with movements as swift as the wind, always associated with motion. Inside the Palatine Museum, there is a fragmented statue that, based on its posture, is recognized as the nymph Aura herself. 
In parapsychology, the term refers to the luminous radiation, invisible to ordinary perception, that is said to surround and animate all living beings. Inspired by these concepts, closely tied to elevation and reuse, a pathway was created that intersects the Colosseum, the Trajan's Column, and the Domus Tiberiana.

          AURA

2024

Maire Group / Parco Archeologico Colosseo

Gazes into technology past and future

IN - GENIUM

Silvana editoriale

The Colosseum Archaeological Park is a mythical place, a millennial cradle of our civil history and the culture of us Europeans, where the truth of today coexists in osmosis with the memory that photography captures within the unstable flow of time. Powerful shots, in which past and present merge in anticipation of the future—already realized in the evocative harmony of industrial landscapes where Beauty becomes contemporary—invite us to admire the Ancient.

This volume unfolds along a parallel track of texts and images, exploring the philosophical, semiotic, and archaeological dimensions through keywords and the analysis of exemplary cases. It delves into the consonance between the innovative capacities and technological achievements of the Romans and the new frontiers of chemical engineering in an eco-sustainable perspective.

The visual construction of this conceptual journey is enriched by the collective investigation of photographers from Italian Fine Arts Academies, standing before the most iconic monuments of the classical world, with the originality of their languages.

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