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“Tony Cragg. Infinite forms and beautiful” brings 18 sculptures created over the last two decades to the Halls of the Baths of Diocletian. The ancient structures of the Baths are not new to dialogue with contemporary works: their alternating events, the many transformations they have undergone, the centuries they have passed through make them a lively and welcoming place. This exhibition creates a stimulating comparison between the pure and essential architecture of the thermal spaces, their grandiose roofs, the geometric volumes of Halls X, XI and XI bis with the seductive, disturbing, mysterious forms of the sculptures by the English artist. A fascinating and lively encounter between the perfection of the construction technique of the ancient world and the references to natural elements of the mineral and vegetal world, to geology and biology, evoking the waves of the sea, the geometric structures of a plant or a shell. The different materials in which the works are made – bronze, wood, travertine, steel, fiberglass – join this polyphonic chorus of elements, interacting with the soft and sculpted forms of ancient sarcophagi and marble statues, with the purple tones of the bricks of the walls and with the black and white tiles of the mosaics. The exploration of the relationships between the forms of the natural world and those of artificial spaces is not limited to ancient Roman architecture alone, but radiates outside the Baths of Diocletian through streets and roads, reaching the city squares, whose familiar forms are now revealed as new and unexpected.