The exhibition “Stefano Lazzari. Between the walls” hosted in Rome in the evocative setting of the Museo delle Mura from 13 December 2022 to 26 February 2023 , aims to be a tribute to the extraordinary archaeological site of Porta Appia, or San Sebastiano, one of the most evocative spaces in Rome and natural museum of itself, but also the perfect setting for contemporary dialogues. Lazzari has created two series of paintings, eight tondos and a polyptych of fourteen elements, in all cases tempera on wood, which reproduce unusual glimpses of the museum, as a curious tourist would do, attracted by minimal details which, extrapolated, manipulated and enlarged, can become material instagrammable or an unexpected pictorial sequence with a Pop flavour.

The author, Stefano Lazzari, born in 1971, is at his first personal experience but has a long journey to his credit as an excellent copyist, having created one of the few companies in the world specialized in the reproduction of works of art twenty years ago ancient with original techniques, the Bottega Tifernate.

Along the Walkway , and in the West Tower dedicated to the exhibition space, Lazzari reinterprets in the first case, outdoors, the relationship between the Aurelian Walls and the park behind them - a very unique place where the modern city has never arrived -, in the second case, inside the Museum, the 'skin' itself of the ancient brick which, in the endless tampering of time, itself becomes something organic like the bark of an age-old tree.

The spectator will walk under the circles positioned in the Walkway - where the glimpse of the park, through one of the arches, repeats itself eight times, only the light varies from day to night - and will pause in front of a polyptych inside the Museum, where fourteen details of the bricks of the walls, close together and combined together, give the idea of an abstract composition, of an architecture that lends itself to becoming different as in a decomposable game, speaking of what time restores to the ancient brick facades : alterations, restorations, rough repairs, spontaneous vegetation, improvised decorations, graffiti, unexpected combinations and glimpses. Witnesses of the empire and its implosion, the walls tell an immense season of history and a daily micro-history, both at the same level. The details reveal the skin of a monument which, seen with a magnifying glass, restores a sensation between the abstract and a return to natural roughness.