The works of Gio' Pomodoro on display in the Pietrasanta Baptistery on the day of the summer solstice.

Secci Gallery presents the exhibition Segni Elementari by Gio’ Pomodoro (Orciano di Pesaro, 1930 - Milan, 2002), curated by Enrico Mattei, which will be held at the Cathedral Baptistery in Pietrasanta fromJune 21 to September 8, 2024. On the occasion of the opening, the Gio’ Pomodoro catalog produced by the gallery will be presented. Segni Elementari is a project on Pomodoro’s experiments, a research that investigates formal solutions, structures, materials and techniques. The selected works Daughter of the Sun, Crowd, and Vertical Tension are representative creations of Pomodoro in sculpture, open to both philological, historical, and philosophical investigation and reflection, as well as analytical-scientific reflection. The work Daughter of the Sun is a deliberate reference to and homage to the Madonna of the Sun, a painting on canvas applied to wood in the late Gothic style; it depicts the Virgin and Child between Saints John the Baptist and John the Apostle, executed in the years between 1366 and 1369, and today it is kept inside the cathedral.

The artist’s works will be unveiled on June 21, 2024 on the first day of the summer solstice when in Versilia the sun, rising from the Apuan Alps, visually passes through the hole of Mount Forato. The desire is to photographically record and capture inside the Baptistery the light of the sun on its longest day when it reaches its maximum height above the horizon at the same time as the event occurs in the Forato. The exhibition will then conclude on September 8, 2024, the day dedicated to the sacred image on the Feast of the Nativity of Mary when it will be unveiled to the public. The image of the Sun, linked to the theme of motherhood, is therefore and in any case always of great comfort, even as an omen of light, clarity and warmth in the flow of daily life.

The works of Gio' Pomodoro on display in the Pietrasanta Baptistery on the day of the summer solstice.

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