AN AGE-OLD ARCHETYPAL FIGURE,THE LABYRINTH UNIVERSALLY EMBODIES THE THEMES OF TRAVEL, REBIRTH, PLAY,RISK AND INITIATION

摘要

La labirintite sembrava il sintomo che rnaveva colpito Milano nel 1981 quando rnuna mostra, a cura di Hermann Kern,rnavevacreatounosmodatointeresseper rnla figura millenaria del labirinto, poi rncodificata in forma di manuale (5000 rnimmagini) nelbelcatalogo Feltrinelli.rnOra siamo a Barcellona con la mostra rn"Por Laberintos", a cura di Ramon rnEspelt e Oscar Tusquets Blanca, che si rnè chiusa di recente al CCCB, a dimornstrazione di corne, a ondate e periorndicamente, questa figura archetipica rnattragga un pubblico vasto.%Milan appeared to have been struck bylabyrinthitisin 1981 when an exhi bition curated by Hermann Kern aroused inordinate interest in the age-old figure of the labyrinth. The show was later recorded in printed form (including 5,000 illustrations) with the fine catalogue published by Feltrinelli. Thirtyyears on, Barcelona is the setting for the "Por Laberintos" exhibition. Curated by Ramon Espelt and Oscar Tusquets Blanca, the show which ended recently at the CCCB demonstrated that this archetypal figure attracts vast numbers of visitors in waves and at regular intervals.