"OMNES VIAE AD ROMAM DUCUNT - ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME"
1997, canvas, relief paste, acrylic, golden foil, 170x120 cm.

OMNES VIAE AD ROMAM DUCUNT - ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME_author Boris Laurentiev

What color is Rome? Grey-red on Lateran, red and brown on Corso... Yes, according to the christian proverb all roads lead exactly to that terracotta-yellow Rome, to the Saint throne. But the ancient Rome of the first ceasars was different: not marble-white, but light and golden-ochre. It is lying in the ruins cosmos as a whiten travertine, plunges the ribs of its last columns into the blue sky with the vain pride, tightens the space to the narrowness of the baroque arcs with the second life of its stone - and keeps silence: it remembers the proverb of the piligrims that used to sit on the ground with their poor meal at the place where the forum has met ceasars with the thunderous Ave.