Condizione città, 1973

Cemented-plastered wood and paint, ⦰20,7×20,5×6,3 cm (two elements)
Mauro Staccioli Archive Museum, Volterra

The invitation to Parma comes for Staccioli as a natural consequence of his personal exhibition in Volterra. Indeed, invitations to participate in public art initiatives, born from the need (on the part of both artists and the community) for art to leave galleries and museums and ‘occupy’ the city, are increasingly numerous. Staccioli, who finds in the Emilian city an opportunity to reflect on its history, both ancient and current, intervenes here with a series of enormous “wheels”, large concrete millstones with two long and sharp steel rostrums at their center: an invasion of military vehicles, circular shapes that are charged with a sense of aggression and instability.

© 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.