Many know the Museo Barracco, founded by the collector Giovanni Barracco, as a museum containing prestigious collections of antique sculpture. However, until 8 June 2008 the museum plays hosts to contemporary art, with works by Paolo Delle Monache displayed at the venue within the "Ex-volto" exhibition. 25 sculptures represent the images of a human and its surroundings and seem to feel quite at home among the ancient masterpieces from Syria, Egypt, Cypress, Phoenicia, Greece and Rome.

The focus of the exhibition is a human face: detached, thoughtful, intensive, serious. In his works Paolo Delle Monache uses architectural elements that create non-existent figures, or forms that can be interpreted in many ways. The material he uses for his works is bronze, because "it is self-supporting and can cope with any balancing or warping problems."
2008.05.23