From 5 April, the nineteenth-century Palazzo Cipolla in Rome , in via del Corso, is preparing to welcome Hypothesis Metaverse , one of the first international exhibitions to ask questions and hypotheses on the technological/existential concept of Metaverse, with an immersion in the mind of creators of worlds from the Baroque to today. A physical and mental journey that pushes the viewer to immerse himself in worlds and visions through painting, sculpture, digital art, dance, poetry, music, up to artificial intelligence. The exhibition, curated by Gabriele Simongini  e  Serena Tabacchi , is promoted by the  Fondazione Terzo Pilastro – Internazionale , chaired by  Prof. Avv. Emmanuele FM Emanuele,  and is created by  Poema SpA . 

A series of multisensory and multimedia experiences, visions of possible worlds created by the genius of national and international artists, in dialogue with past works by painters who have imagined other "realities", starting from the Baroque. The physical, material experience thus enters into a short circuit with the digital and immersive one, stimulating the visitor to question himself on the perceptive modalities of today and of the future. «In order to underline that the hypothetical Metaverse, a new hyper-technological dimension, must be added to real life without replacing it, paintings and sculptures by artists who have created alternative "worlds" coexist with immersive works, to offer the visitor, often called into question as the "actor" of the exhibition, a balanced, even if sometimes unsettling, relationship between the physical and the digital. A sort of "laboratory for the future", with the intention of offering the visitor an experience that is supposed to be, in some respects, similar to that of the years to come, in the coexistence of contemplation and immersion, an almost simultaneous perception of the material and of the immaterial, between stability and fluctuation. declare the curators Simongini and Tabacchi. 

Fruit of the intuition and vision of Prof. Emanuele, who gave life to the exhibition space of Palazzo Cipolla in 1999, personally supervising its programming and ranging from ancient to contemporary art, Hypothesis Metaverse will see the historical works of Carlo Maratti, Andrea Pozzo, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Fortunato Depero, De Pistoris, Giorgio de Chirico, Maurits Cornelis Escher, Victor Vasarely, Ugo Nespolo, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Fiducia, Pier Augusto Breccia, Alfredo Zelli, Cesar Santos , and the works of some of the most innovative and disruptive digital artists on the Italian and international contemporary scene:Robert Alice, Refik Anadol, Alex Braga, Joshua Chaplin, Sofia Crespo and/and Feileacan McCormick, Damjanski, Primavera De Filippi, fuse*, Fabio Giampietro con/with Paolo Di Giacomo, Krista Kim, Mario Klingemann, Pak, Joe Pease, Federico Solmi, Sasha Stiles, Pinar Yoldas. Each digital work is conceived as a site-specific project, linked to the space of the Palazzo and in harmony with the rest of the exhibition itinerary, within which ever-changing rules and spaces will be defined: a special swing will give the visitor the sensation of dive into a parallel world, digital images will suddenly take shape in physical reality, an immersive work will visualize the "digital Zen philosophy", a sound performance will create an experience of sensory multiplication, you will immerse yourself in generative poems, you will meet sculptures built on blockchain technology and interactive works that combine biological sciences and digital technologies with the creation of a "second nature". 

«By bringing the future into the present, digital technology is changing the way we see reality, intervening incisively in our daily life. Even art has conformed to this coexistence between past, present and future, and one of the last exhibitions I have held at Palazzo Cipolla in chronological order, that of Quayola, is proof of this.» says Prof. Emanuele, President of the Third Pillar Foundation. «The exhibition we are presenting allows us to combine, through the dialogue between 32 historical and contemporary artists from all over the world, tradition, which remains an essential point of reference, with the new that advances, with the digital world, through the contribution of the new technologies, which also constitute a revolution in the way of expressing the sentiment that has always been the basis of every work of art, in any age».

The exhibition catalog is published by  DRAGO .

Metaverse hypothesis
curated by Gabriele Simongini and Serena Tabacchi
promoted by the Fondazione Terzo Pilastro – Internazionale
created by Poema SpA
5 April – 23 July 2023
Palazzo Cipolla – via del Corso, Rome