From 4 March to 4 April 2015, the Visionnaire Wunderkammer in Milan, in collaboration with the Spazio Nuovo gallery in Rome, presents Eternity, a selection of works by the renowned portrayer and photographer Olivier Roller.

The exhibition brings together sumptuous effigies of ancient sculptures preserved in the world’s most prestigious museums: emperors and female divinities rendered through the artist’s luminous technique, creating a compelling dialogue between contemporary photography and ancient art. Roller immortalizes the statues by drawing them out of darkness; light and a sharp gaze awaken stories of glory, charisma and passion, while revealing an idea of beauty in its most essential and eternal form.

Even in their refined production, Olivier Roller’s works pay homage to the codes of Parisian Art Deco, where fascination with antiquity and the East as sources of absolute beauty was combined with a passion for the highest levels of craftsmanship. Lacquered wood and slightly glossy fine art prints exalt the powerful faces of Roman sculpture, with black as a defining code of luxury. With its savoir-faire, attention to detail and cultivated, refined identity devoted to pure beauty, Visionnaire’s universe becomes the ideal setting — the Maison idéale — to host Roller’s photographic research, shortly before his major exhibition at the Musée National du Mobilier – Manufacture des Gobelins in spring 2015.