Artistic Puns

If you are ever in Rome, head to the Angelica Gallery.

The Gallery is in the same building as the Angelica Library, part of the Ministry of Cultural Activities & Goods which conserves precious and rare relics in one of the few architectural works designed by Luigi Vanvitelli during his stay in Rome.

Over Christmas 2006 the works of London born artist Lorenzo Scaretti are on show.

Born in London and son of an Italian banker and an English writer and painter, his art is a tireless capacity to play with words and images: “... prose is obsolete, a play on words is the new form of expression, because a play on words immediately condenses an idea and an image”.

Some even say 'his artistic endeavours are an all-out Punic war against the conventional'

His works can be found in numerous private collections in New York, London, Paris, Washington, Los Angeles, Montreal, Houston, Brussels and Rome.

If you like Magritte, you'll like this.

Galleria Angelica
via di S. Agostino, 11
Rome