Londra 1982-1983

“Londra ’82” - maquette progettuale - Foto di Enrico Fontolan. Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma.

“Londra ’82”, Arte italiana 1960-1982, Hayward Gallery - project (Box DIS-C_2 Folder 2 Unit 57) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma.

“Londra ’82”, Arte italiana 1960-1982, Hayward Gallery - photomontage (Box DIS-C_1 Folder 2 Unit 53) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma.

“Londra ’82”, Arte italiana 1960-1982, Hayward Gallery - drawing (Box DIS-C_1 Folder 2 Unit 57) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma.

“Londra ’82”, Arte italiana 1960-1982, Hayward Gallery - drawing (Box DIS-C_1 Folder 2 Unit 40) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma.

“Londra ’82”, Arte italiana 1960-1982, Hayward Gallery - drawing , Londra '82 (Box DIS-A_2 Folder 2 Unit 54) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma.

“Londra ’82”, Arte italiana 1960-1982, Hayward Gallery - photomontage (Box 10 Folder 2 Unit 26) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma.

“Londra ’82”, Arte italiana 1960-1982, Hayward Gallery - photomontage (Box 10 Folder 2 Unit 30) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma.

“Londra ’82”, Arte italiana 1960-1982, Hayward Gallery - photographic print (Box DIS-C_1 Folder 2 Unit 54) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma.

“Londra ’82”, Arte italiana 1960-1982, Hayward Gallery - photographic print (Box 10 Folder 2 Unit 32) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma.

“Londra ’82”, Arte italiana 1960-1982, Hayward Gallery. Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli.

“Londra ’82”, Arte italiana 1960-1982, Hayward Gallery - slide (Box 10 Folder 2 Unit 64) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma.

Londra ‘82, 1982

Wood and paint, 37x30x39 cm
Mauro Staccioli Archive Museum, Volterra

The City of Milan, in collaboration with the Arts Council of Great Britain, brought an exhibition on the last twenty years of Italian art to London at the end of 1982. Invited to the exhibition by a commission composed of Guido Ballo, Renato Barilli, Flavio Caroli, Vittorio Fagone, Mercedes Garberi and Roberto Sanesi, Mauro Staccioli immediately explored various formal possibilities for the intervention. He finally decided to place a precariously balanced triangle on the roof of the Hayward Gallery, the exhibition site. For the first time, Staccioli uses the oxide red color that would soon have become a peculiarity of his work; by doing so, the sculpture, protruding from the parapet, acquires such visibility that it becomes the symbol of the exhibition itself. Moreover, the studies for the placement translate the need, typical of the sculptor, to relate the plastic sign to the architecture and urban context.

©Ela Bialkowska Okno Studio. 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.