“Porte dell’Edipo” (1988) and “Costume di Edipo per Oedipus Rex” (1988) exhibited at Palazzo Bellomo, Siracusa

From 4 June to 6 November 2022 the Galleria Regionale di Palazzo Bellomo in Siracusa presents the exhibition Edipo. Lo sguardo in sé, curated by Antonio Calbi (Superintendent of the Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico).

The exhibition displays the works of twenty-six artists dedicated to the figure of Oedipus. Modern and contemporary authors of different generations, languages, poetics who have already addressed the theme, some even in the theater, or who have created new works for the exhibition promoted and organized by the Galleria di Palazzo Bellomo, with the support of the Department of Heritage Cultural and Identity of the Sicilian Region, in collaboration with the Municipality of Siracusa, Civita Sicilia and the INDA Foundation.

Among the exhibited works there are also Porte dell’Edipo (1988) and Costume di Edipo per Oedipus Rex (1988) by Arnaldo Pomodoro, the latter created for the staging of the Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinskij in 1988 in piazza Jacopo della Quercia in Siena.