Stazione Radio Base Tim, 2000

Wood, cardboard and paint, 43x29x29 cm
Mauro Staccioli Archive Museum, Volterra

In 2000 Staccioli, engaged by the architect of the technical office of the Municipality of Faenza, presented a proposal for Tim Radio Base station in South Faenza. The sculptor thus planned the realization of a stele in his typical red color that visually recalls signal transmission through poles stretched across the landscape. The sign is thus intended to be an element of identification at an axis of entry and exit from the inhabited centre to allow immediate recognition. The intervention, therefore, also becomes an opportunity to qualify the site, which, made practicable, is proposed as a place of meeting, relaxing and rest for its frequent visitors. Moreover, the red stele with a triangular plan recurs in the sculptor’s formal lexicon, finding various types of execution, of which the most interesting are those in oblique position and in extremely precarious equilibrium as in Conero ’01, Lapiz Builing ’03 (in which the sign is even embedded in the façade of a building), up to Indicatore ’09 and Diagonale palatina ’16 leaning on the walls of the Terme di Caracalla.

© Enrico Fontolan, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Insitute, Roma. Courtesy Archivio Mauro Staccioli.