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In Greek and Roman mythology, those who drank from the Lethe river experienced complete forgetfulness. Oblivion had for the ancients both a negative and a positive value, it made you forgetful of the earthly life yet ready for a new beginning.
Lethe is an anotherworld river as was Stige, title of Ardini’s previous personal exhibition at Federica Schiavo Gallery (Rome, 2015). For the artist, the river is representative of his favourite medium and a strong link to his provenance: four hundred years ago, the community of the small town Nove, near Vicenza, extracted the clay from the watercourse, …