Giovanna Forlanelli Rovati in the Sala Ontani. Photo by Giovanni de Sandre via Fondazione Luigi Rovati
LUX speaks to Giovanna Forlanelli Rovati At the Fondazione Luigi Rovati in Milan, where she is putting experimental dialogues between ancient and contemporary art, and artistic and scientific enquiry at the heart of an original project
LUX: You trained in medicine and science and worked in pharmaceuticals. Does that give you a different way of perceiving art"

Giovanna Forlanelli Rovati: Culture and art are unpredictable, and so are research and scientific discovery ? both form the basis of Humanism. Openness and curiosity have always marked my experiences and my scientific training leads me to experiment with new artistic languages. The idea of connecting art and science led to establishing the Fondazione Luigi Rovati. Old meets new in the fondazione’s Sala Ontani
LUX: Have you always been fascinated by Etruscan art and craft"

GFR: I became interested in contemporary art in the 1990s in New York, while my husband Lucio is passionate about classical art, in particular Etruscan. Through our passions, we realised that there is an extraordinary dialogue between the ancient and contemporary. The project we share is focused on this.
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LUX: Are there links between modern and contemporary art and ancient art"

GFR: Certainly, yes, there is a link between them. The aim of the fondazione is to represent and explain these ...