Ravenna's MAR has acquired Sacral, Edoardo Tresoldi's large wire mesh temple

Edoardo Tresoldi ’sSacral enters the permanent collection of the MAR - Art Museum of the City of Ravenna. In fact, the Ravenna museum has acquired the installation chosen for the exhibition Un’Epopea Pop held at the MAR in 2021 on the occasion of the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante’s death: it had been selected in the contemporary art itinerary to ideally reinterpret the Castello degli Spiriti Magni. The MAR is the first public museum institution to acquire a work by the artist defined by “Absent Matter” and wire mesh cathedrals, and named among Europe’s most influential artists under 30 by Forbes in 2017.

The large-scale sculpture, installed in the 16th-century cloister of the city’s Art Museum, thanks in part to the valuable support of Marcegaglia, will continue to give the public an opportunity to ideally retrace Dante’s journey.

The Sacral wire mesh temple was made in 2016 and was installed in the 16th-century cloister of the city’s Museum of Art, originally the site of the monastery of the canons of Santa Maria in Porto, who were devoted to the worship of the Greek Madonna whom Dante himself mentions in Paradise. “An archetypal image,” Tresoldi had said, "is able to make past and present dialogue through a language made up of meanings that go back in time. Inside the 16th-century cloister of the MAR, Sacral presents itself as the memory of a place already encountered, a familiar image that introduces the visitor to Dante’s path."

Pictured: Sacral by Edoardo Tresoldi. Photo by Fabiano Caputo

Ravenna's MAR has acquired Sacral, Edoardo Tresoldi's large wire mesh temple

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