"I Love Lego" arrives in Pontedera: cities created with Legos on display

From January 27, 2021, PALP Palazzo Pretorio in Pontedera will host I Love Lego, an exhibition designed to have fun and rediscover one’s playful and creative side by peering into the details of entire miniature worlds. True works of architecture and engineering in miniature, dozens of square meters of sceneries entirely made with LEGO® bricks will go to make up modern cities and ancient monuments: from the ideal contemporary city to the legendary adventures of pirates, from medieval landscapes to the splendors of Ancient Rome, reconstructed and meticulously designed with the world’s most famous modules.

But there are not only millions of bricks: among the dioramas built thanks to the collaboration of a group of passionate collectors, a number of unprecedented installations arrive at PALP to demonstrate how Lego bricks have become, even for a single moment, part of everyone’s life and are able to “create art at 360 degrees.”

Such is the case with the partnership with "Legolize," a humor page that creates comic installations using LEGOs themselves. Founded by three guys(Mattia Marangon, Samuele Rovituso and Pietro Alcaro), the page was born in 2016 and currently has more than half a million fans on Instagram and as many on Facebook. Legolize will bring comedy inside the exhibition, with special installations and “invading” the existing dioramas.

Also peeping out among the different installations will be 12 oils inspired by great masterpieces of art history reinterpreted and transformed into “lego men” by contemporary artist Stefano Bolcato: combining his passion for LEGOs and his art, through an oil painting technique, the artist creates assemblage forms inspired in particular by the “magnetism” of Renaissance portraits.

Welcoming visitors to Curtatone and Montanara Square is LEGO Head by artist Marco Lodola, who created the nativity scene for the Uffizi in late 2020. It is precisely the luminous and surprising Head of LEGO, which will remain permanently in Pontedera, that was conceived by Alberto Bartalini as a natural connection with I Love Lego.

I Love Lego is an exhibition promoted by the Fondazione per la Cultura Pontedera in collaboration with the Municipality of Pontedera, PALP and Arte Per Non Dormire, is organized by Piuma in collaboration with Arthemisia and is made with over 1,000,000 modules. The exhibition is part of Arte Per Non Dormire - Pontedera and Beyond XXI Century, the extensive contemporary art project to be directed by Alberto Bartalini.

The exhibition will run until June 13.

For all information you can visit the official website of PALP Palazzo Pretorio.

"I Love Lego" arrives in Pontedera: cities created with Legos on display

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