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 Rome celebrates Audrey Hepburn through an exhibition of over one hundred photographs, videos, and personal objects belonging to one of the icons of cinema and customs of our time. A tribute to the great actor of films that have shaped the history of cinema, from Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, and has lived for over twenty years in Rome. The exhibition "Audrey in Rome", the Ara Pacis Museum until December 4, will also serve to raise funds for the project to combat child malnutrition, supported by Friends of Audrey Club for UNICEF, which has paid the same Audrey important part of his life as a UNICEF Ambassador."Audrey in Rome" is promoted by exposure of Cultural Affairs and Historical Center - Superintendence of Cultural Capital of Rome, Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund and UNICEF with the Club "Friends of Audrey," and Zètema Culture Project. The exhibition includes a selection of unpublished shots that capture the moments of everyday life Hepburn, second son of the actress is curated by Luca Dotti, with Ludovica Damiani, Sciascia Gambaccini, Guido Torlonia and the advice of the Sava Bisazza Terracini. Captions, text and graphical trace the personal relationship between Audrey and the city of Rome. An exclusive video shows moments of privacy away from the scene. The images are accompanied by clothing and accessories, manner of dress of the witnesses of that period, including dresses worn by Audrey in the life of every day.
A space is devoted to images from the archive of the actress on travel UNICEF among children in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and South America, some of the many missions that the actress has spent the last part of the whole his life, from the mid-'80s, when it becomes Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF (United Nations Fund for Children). In the five years before his death in 1993, Audrey travels tirelessly, visiting dozens of UNICEF projects in Africa, Latin America and Asia, witnessing to the world the suffering of children affected by poverty and conflict, making it the UNICEF faces in the world. The last journey of Audrey in Somalia is plagued - like today, almost twenty years later - by famine. "I was in hell," he said on his return shocked.
"Rome was the city of his choice and adoption - the presentation said the commissioner capitol of Cultural Affairs and Historical Center, Marco Gasperini - the city where the star has decided to become" earth, "seeking the tranquility that only Rome, with its eternal beauties can give, love always in the spotlight for this very reason also allows you to hide. to be simply and wonderfully themselves. " With this exhibition, Audrey continues to serve the cause of children today. The integration in the ticket price, in fact, will go to Unicef: the purchase of the ticket is a donation equal to the cost of salvage therapy based on minerals and vitamins for a malnourished child. The resources mobilized by the fund shows a network of 32 feeding centers in the region of Lac, in Chad, where malnourished children receive therapeutic food and health care. |
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