Donated to the city of Florence a changing site-specific installation by Alfredo Pirri

The work Perspectives with Horizons by Alfredo Pirri (Cosenza, 1957) was donated to the city of Florence: a metaphysical archaeological site. A marble quarry in which a trench is dug useful for the extraction of ore. A place within which to penetrate, overlooked by overlapping colored areas. This is how thesite-specific installation that was created as a cover for the Sala Zubin Mehta, new Auditorium of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, presents itself to the visitor.

The work was donated thanks to the Cerasi family’s love of art, and in particular to Emiliano Cerasi, owner of SAC.

“It is a project that brings art and music together and will increasingly characterize this portion of the city, which is devoted to culture,” commented Florence Mayor Dario Nardella. “Thanks to Alfredo Pirri, one of the greatest contemporary artists, and to the gift of engineer Cerasi, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has a permanent work of art that is unique in the Italian art scene, even in size, and that enriches the entire infrastructure of the theater.”

“The generosity of the person who donated the work to the city is typical of the authentic art collector, of one who by purchasing the work of art not for himself but for the community makes it public,” the artist said. “A work that belonging to everyone is sharable and interpretable by everyone in different ways becoming part of the collective gaze of a city that introjects it and makes it its own, devours it, criticizes it, loves it.”

The art project covers an area of about 2270 square meters on the edge of Cascine Park. “This work of mine,” the artist explains, "began as a relay to an architectural work in progress. It is a sequence of full and empty forms that chase each other, determining a chromatic and luminous succession that changes according to the alternation of day and night and the surfacing or sinking of the elements. It is composed of horizontal chromatic planes from which emerge non-functional metal parallelepipeds or, on the contrary, sink compressed elements of mirror and glass that accommodate, within them, feathers that seem to have just fallen from the sky. From the first inspection, I felt immersed inside a Tuscan landscape: I had the impression of walking into a marble quarry or an archaeological dig. Quarries have always fascinated me because of their clarity, that whiteness that makes them abstract and yet so real, heavy yet ghostly and metaphysical. With this work, I would like to evoke their atmosphere--a matter that is transformed into light. This work aims to dialogue with the city’s architectural landscape, whether historical or current in a continuous seesaw between present and past."

Donated to the city of Florence a changing site-specific installation by Alfredo Pirri

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