Vignate ’96, 1996

red concrete, three elements 150x400x45 cm each
Centro scolastico, Vignate, Milan, Italy

In cooperation with Associazione Culturale Amici di Morterone and Associazione Culturale Nuova Vignate.

“The feeling given off by his constructions in open spaces, in enclosed spaces and in nature, concerns the creation of a meeting place. As Martin Buber used to say, “life is an encounter”. With other people through ourselves; with other people through the integrity of expression; with yourself through the echoes reverberating back from others. […] Just like a hermit, who knows just how much bread and water it takes to survive, poverty of form is the key to purity. The circle and arch, the triangle and rectangle, are placed in an urban setting bursting with an endless array of different visions, while the sculpture stands among the trees and vegetation like some benchmark of quality or, more simply, as a gap between two heartbeats.”

A. Barzel, Mauro Staccioli. Vignate ’96, curated by Amnon Barzel and Francesco Tedeschi, exhibition catalogue, Vignate, Palazzo Municipale, 13 october – 17 november 1996, p.11