Im Licht des Südens

Dear Friends
after the Kabelsalat, I visited the interesting exhibition Im Licht des Südens at the Archäologische Staatsammlung here in Munich. The exhibition tells us that a cultural and commercial globalisation, although slower than the today's globalisation, was already in place in the Antiquity between the Celt and Roman world on one side and other cultures of near and far countries, like Greece, Crete, Egypt, Syria and India, on the other side. The mix and the changes in the cultures due to said globalisation in the Antiquity is testified by oriental goods, artifacts in gold, metals and exotic materials, and local produced devices adapted to oriental styles discovered in Roman and Celts archaeological sites. Of particular interest t the exhibition a sundial from Altino (Venice) of the 1st cen. B.C.. More info about this exhibition at:
http://www.imlichtdessuedens.de/de/die-ausstellung/
Any comment from your side is welcomed.
Salutations
Giancarlo

Kabelsalat

Dear Friends
yesterday, in going to visit an exhibition at the Archäologisches Museum here in Munich, I remarked the exhibition Kabelsalat - Energiekonsum im Haushalt, at the Foyer of the Library of the Deutsches Museum. Aim of Kabelsalat is to show, by means of artifacts of various periods and images, the recent adaptation of more and more sophisticated electric devices to the everyday life of the peoples and the debates among the public and the scientists it generates. Of particular interest is the documentation of the request of the public in Germany for clean energy after the recent accident at the Japanese nuclear plant of Fukushima.
More info about Kabelsalat at:
http://www.deutsches-museum.de/ausstellungen/sonderausstellungen/2012/kabelsalat/
Any comment from your side is welcomed.
Salutations
Giancarlo

Furth

Dear Friends
I thank Jean-Luc for the organisation of the flash excursion of last Sunday to Furth:
 http://www.fuerth.de/home.aspx
in program was the visit of the Stadtmuseum:
http://www.stadtmuseum-ludwig-erhard.de/
which presents artifacts and images of the development of the town in various periods. Of interest are the images of the period of the WW I and II.
Salutations
Giancarlo

Neapel und der Süden

Dear Friends
first of all, I whish to you and your families an Happy and Sucessful 2012.
Then, let me say that having spent three month of my life in Neapel and having sejourned many time Sicily, it was for me a great pleasure to visit the announced exhibition
Neapel und der Süden at the Neue Pinakothek here in München:
http://www.pinakothek.de/neue-pinakothek
http://www.damals.de/de/4/news.html?aid=190522&action=showDetails
The exhibition presents photos of the 19th century, taken by different photographers using different technics. In looking to the photos I recognized, sometime without appreciable changes, ancient monuments, streets and aspects of the people's life I met, and the photos, I think, are successful in providing to the visitors visions of the difficult but pulsating life of the peoples in that period. Particularly impressive are the images of a Vesuvian eruption, of the earthquake in Casamicciola and the underground cemetery in Palermo.
The following images are certainly of not high quality because of the illumination in the hall
of the exhibition, but in any case can communicate you, I hope, an idea of said life.
Salutations
Giancarlo