“I’ll Be There Forever” opens with La Fusione della Campana (2007), an imposing sculpture by Diego Perrone, acting as a reminder of how awareness of classical and historical themes is a constant in the work of these artists. The exhibition continues with a sequence of new works commissioned by Acqua di Parma for this exhibition and space. In the courtyards, gardens and rooms punctuated with Baroque stuccoes and marquetry, the artists offer a multifaceted and complex view of the idea of the classic, re-interpreting ancient and contemporary, epochs and places and making use of different materials and technologies.

Sculptures, environmental installations, films, paintings and photographs engage with the Renaissance, transfigure Giotto and Leonardo, refer to the cinema of Tarkovsky and Fellini, and rethink classical architecture from the Acropolis of Athens to the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento.

To bring out the dual nature of this exhibition, the architectural studio Kuehn Malvezzi has conceived an exhibition design that places the contemporary in dialogue with the Neoclassical character of the Palazzo Cusani, using fabrics produced by Rubelli.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Electa that will analyse the theme of the classic with essays by Cloe Piccoli, Alessandro Rabottini, Martin Herbert, Pier Paolo Tamburelli and Paola Nicolin, while a wide repertoire of images will offer a narration ranging from ancient to contemporary art, from cinema to architecture and from science to alchemy.