From Saturday 4 March to Monday 10 April 2023, the Church of Santa Maria della Spina will host the exhibition 'SIGNUM' by Gianni Lucchesi.
The exhibition is presented by ARCHIVIO DOLFO and Galleria IPERCUBO, with the patronage of the Municipality of Pisa, set up by Carlo Alberto Arzelà. Light designer Davide Groppi. Texts by Nicolas Martino and Ilario Luperini. A HANGAR production. Main Sponsor. BUNDLES. Sponsors CIONI - POLIART - BMBITALY.
It is the disorientation of our time, it is the anxiety for the future, especially in the new generations, it is the relationship, always complicated between human, nature and spirituality, that drives the human to rediscover the 'theology of nature'. Hence the artist's intention to represent the latent symptom, understood as something that remains hidden and does not appear externally except through the deformation of morphology, and thus to work on the church floor, which represents the foundation of faith, humility, the belief in what is not seen. How do we change our 'perception' of reality, and what are the anthropological consequences of these profound transformations of our being in the world? What happens when the anthropocentric project endangers the very existence of nature and, therefore, of our civilisation? In the 'disorientation' that characterises our time, the artist imprints a 'sign' that questions us and, at the same time, presages new perspectives.
Gianni Lucchesi's installation, created in the workshop, simply rests on the floor of the church without any kind of interference. The light, a functional element in the dramaturgy of the installation, involves the floor and the sculpture of the Madonna della Rosa by Andrea and Nino Pisano.
Opening: Saturday 4 March 2023, 6.30 p.m.
Visiting hours
MARCH: Thursday and Friday 3-7 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 3-7 p.m.
APRIL daily - closed on Tuesdays 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Free entrance
...Under the pavement is there (still) the beach? This phrase, which transforms one of the most famous slogans of the Parisian May into a question, seems to contain the key to the 'sign' impressed by Gianni Lucchesi inside the Chiesa della Spina. If, in fact, those May days announced a new world to come full of promise, in reality they also, and perhaps above all, marked the sunset of modern civilisation and thus the end of a 'perception' of the world that had placed man and his project on nature at the centre. A project included within a very precise idea of a 'time' all turned towards the future as a dimension of liberation and realisation of one's own desires. A structure of time that, in turn, was rooted in the Christian revolution and its promise of redemption. What happens, then, when this world, with its perceptive structures, dies, but the new one is still struggling to be born? How does our 'perception' of reality change, and what are the anthropological consequences of these profound transformations of our being in the world? What happens when the future full of promise turns into a horizon full of questions, anxieties and uncertainties? When the anthropocentric project endangers the very existence of nature and thus of our civilisation? In the 'disorientation' that characterises our time, Gianni Lucchesi imprints a 'sign' that questions us and at the same time presages new perspectives....
Nicolas Martino
...Signum. Sign, imprint, symptom, omen. Something that reminds us that we are neither invincible nor self-sufficient; that, rather, we are part of a system of symbiotic dependencies that bind us to each other, to other species and to the entire planet. Reconnecting what capitalism has divided: our relationship with nature, with each other and with our bodies, so that we can regain a sense of wholeness in our lives. ...
Ilario Luperini
