GEORGIA

The Georgian project presents 65 Maximiliana or the Illegal Practice of Astronomy, a volume conceived by the Georgian artist, poet, and publisher Ilia Zdanevich and by Max Ernst in 1964. The book is dedicated to Wilhelm Tempel (1821-1889), a German astronomer and lithographer who lived and worked in Italy too, in particular in Venice, where he observed comets with the naked eye from the Scala Contarini del Bovolo. The exhibition is conceived as a living archive that invites visitors to engage with Tempel’s fascinating biography through original materials and new works, including a set of pieces of furniture inspired by the typographic characters of the volume.