Scultura-Intervento Mura delle carceri vecchie, 1976
Wood, cemented-plastered wood, iron, cardboard and paint, 47×88,5×52 cm
Mauro Staccioli Archive Museum, Volterra
The exhibition organized at the Museo del Paesaggio in Verbania from July to September 1976 and curated by Jole de Sanna represents a relevant moment of reflection around the concept of sculpture. In addition to Staccioli’s work, it included those of Luciano Fabro, Lucio Fontana, Fausto Melotti, Piero Manzoni, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Giulio Paolini, Medardo Rosso and Antonio Trotta.
Staccioli takes part in the debate by developing a reflection on the role and function of the contemporary artist, who has the duty to elaborate forms of participation and democratic management of cultural work, seeking the connection between manual and intellectual labour. For the occasion, he then studied an intervention to build at the walls of the old prisons, a place with a strong symbolic charge: a grand curved arch characterised by two iron spikes at the top and bottom that plays the dual role of buttress and, at the same time, memory of the suffering of the place.
© Enrico Fontolan, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Insitute, Roma. Courtesy Archivio Mauro Staccioli.
L’Archivio Mauro Staccioli ha collaborato con la Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute di Roma per la digitalizzazione dell’intero corpus documentario afferente ai lavori realizzati o ipotizzati dall’artista, dall’inizio della carriera fino al 1988. Si ringrazia il fotografo Enrico Fontolan, il Digital Humanities Lab e il Fondo Fotografico della Bibliotheca Hertziana per l’enorme lavoro svolto. Tutto il materiale è consultabile online cliccando qui.