Florence, at the Mercato Centrale the new installation by Vincenzo Marsiglia

From May 30 to Feb. 28, 2025, the site-specific installation Suspended Flow signed by artist Vincenzo Marsiglia and curated by Davide Sarchioni can be visited at Florence ’s Mercato Centrale. Produced by Mercato Centrale Florence, the work features light sculptures made of Murano glass hanging from the ceiling and interactive neon signs powered by the passage of people who experience the Mercato. It is the work displayed on the occasion of the celebration of ten years of the project conceived by Umberto Montano in collaboration with the Human Company group of the Cardini - Vannucchi families. Marseille, after inaugurating the ParisArt Fair on the Champs Élysées and the Rome Arte in Nuvola fair in the capital, continues in Florence its dialogue with the architecture inside the Mercato Centrale.

Suspended Flow is an experience between art and technology to express the vocation of a place that animates the daily life of the Tuscan capital. In continuity with its focus on culture, which over the years has given rise to a series of collaborations with protagonists of contemporary art including Daniel Buren, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Ai Weiwei, Marco Lodola, Grazia Toderi and others, Mercato Centrale thus celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a new art project specifically designed for the interior spaces of Giuseppe Mengoni’s 1874 iron building. The aerial installation consists of several neon light sculptures, made of Murano blown glass, suspended in the upper part of the architecture almost floating in space following a precise perspective order like constellations of an imaginary celestial sphere. Some elements configure a four-pointed star, a hallmark of Marseille’s language, while others employ lettering to formulate phrases and messages addressed to the public, such as “Suspended Flow,” “Light in your eyes,” and “Looking up,” which, placed in one position, invites market users to look up. The installation refers to the continuous flow of data transmitted upward that is transformed into light energy, a kind of co-creation between the artist and the public. Through an App, the influx of the public and its interaction with the Marketplace more or less consciously encourages the changing light intensity of the neon lights, generating an ever-changing and ever-changing atmosphere. Thus, Suspended Flow invites togetherness, aggregation and cooperation to generate positive, inclusive and truly sustainable energy, which is powered by energy from 100 percent renewable sources. Employing the mixed and augmented reality HoloLens device, Marseille has produced a video that chronicles the everyday life inside the Central Market, transfigured by the artist’s firsthand experience with the viewer, where starry patterns and colorful digital architecture intersect with the real world. The video will be looped on monitors, and during the opening the public will also be able to experience the live performance with the device.

“The culture of art, like the culture of food, defines the inclusive mission of Mercato Centrale Florence, a place of experiences, a source of immediate interchanges, an epicenter of multiple interests. In the daily context of its spaces, the usability of content at any time is the engine of a shared and open collective gathering, always connected to contemporary art. This is the intent of the Mercato, in its being a project of redevelopment and restitution, born and designed for the city and those who live it,” says Umberto Montano, President and Founder of Mercato Centrale. “It is with this in mind that we committed to the creation of this new site-specific art project signed by Vincenzo Marsiglia that rekindles, continues and deepens our commitment to today’s art and today’s city.”

“With this new installation, Marsiglia further deepens unprecedented strategies of relationship and dialogue between the work, the space and the viewer/viewer,” says curator Davide Sarchioni, “triggering systems of deep interaction with the identity and characteristics peculiar to the Market to formulate multifaceted and multifaceted, meaning-laden pathways in which everyday of real life is inextricably intertwined with the immateriality of light and the virtuality of the digital world thanks to technological innovation, again generating a unique and surprising aesthetic and emotional experience under the unmistakable sign of its star.”

Florence, at the Mercato Centrale the new installation by Vincenzo Marsiglia

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