The exhibition "Colors and Images of Science" at Palazzo delle Esposizioni is the final step of one of the thirteen stages of the European INFN-CERN Art & Science Across Italy project, a journey between art and science which in the two-year period 2020/2022 involved more than 5000 students from all over Italy. The exhibition presents more than 70 artistic creations inspired by scientific themes, created by more than 200 students from 21 high schools in Rome and its province. In addition to student’s artworks works by professional artists are presented.
As a whole, the Roman phase of Art & Science Across Italy involved a total of over 1000 students who have been supported and supervised by researchers from the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and Sapienza Università di Roma, for scientific contents, and by artists of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, for the artistic part.
ArtScience Across Italy is a European project for the dissemination of scientific culture curated by the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and CERN, with the aim of engaging students of the last two years of high schools with science, combining artistic and scientific languages. In its third edition, Art & Science Across Italy involves thirteen Italian cities (Bari, Cagliari, Frascati, Genoa, Lecce, Naples, Milan, Padua, Pisa, Potenza, Rome, Turin and Venice) for the two-year period 2020/22, for a total of over 100 schools and 5,650 students engaged in training and production of artistic works, in the context of Pathways for Transversal Skills and Orientation.
For each of the thirteen cities, the project is structured in four phases - formative, ideational, creative, competitive - followed by a local exhibition and a national contest which ends with the final exhibition “Colors and Images of Science. In the art of scientific research" in May 2022, at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. The winners of the national competition, selected by an international committee of experts, will take part in a master's degree on the relationship between art and science, at CERN in Geneva or in one of the INFN national laboratories.