Del Medico Palace: we officially deny the claims attributed to us by the Tyrrhenian

Last February 27, an article appeared in the Carrara chronicle of Il Tirreno, entitled Palazzo Del Medico unbound, in which it was reported that we had been reporting “for some time that work was beginning inside the historic Palazzo del Medico in Alberica Square in Carrara, aimed at improvements to Stefano Gazzillo’s atelier, with the ambitious project signed by fashion designer Riccardo Coppola,” and that this project, “in our opinion,” “would be started without reporting to the Municipal Technical Office.”

We want to dryly deny the statements attributed to us by the newspaper, which, moreover, we have already contacted by phone so that it will publish a correction on its pages, which, according to what we have been assured, will be published in the coming days. In fact, things are not as written in the pages of the Tirreno. We have never made any statement about the work that Stefano Gazzillo’s atelier, which is based in Palazzo Del Medico, is conducting.

As those who follow us will know, we were summoned by the Cultural Commission of the Municipality of Carrara on February 6, following our report about the degradation in which the Gallery of Mirrors of Palazzo Del Medico is located, and there we limited ourselves to exposing the problem and making some proposals, which you can read in this article made public on our website the day before the meeting.

Wewere not aware of the work on the atelier (so much so that we did not even mention it in the article on our site!), which we learned about only days later, on February 15 to be exact, from an article that also appeared in the pages of the Tirreno and was entitled Nellatelier di Stefano Gazzillo arriva la sala da tè. Not being aware of such work, we could not even know if it had been reported to the Municipal Technical Office, information still unknown to us. Moreover, at the Culture Commission meeting on Feb. 26, during which the meeting between the City Council and the Superintendent’s Office took place to discuss the Palace, not only were we not present, but we were not even summoned to this meeting! This is because we believe that our role is over: we have reported the degradation of a room in the Palace, now it will be up to the City Council and the Superintendence to proceed with checks and inspections. From all this, it is therefore clear that the claims attributed to us are completely unfounded, and we want to refute them from our website as well.

Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Gazzillo for his kindness and helpfulness in allowing us to visit the Mirror Gallery, with the hope that the work on the improvements will be completed as quickly as possible, also because it would be a matter of making some rooms of the Palace usable by the public, as well as a new, interesting and, we hope, successful initiative not only for the palace, but for the whole city of Carrara, which in this period is in dire need of novelty and ideas. And if Stefano Gazzillo’s initiative succeeds in bringing the people of Carrara (and not only them) to the halls of the palace, this will be a source of satisfaction for us as well, who were hoping for the opening to the public of part of the rooms of Palazzo Del Medico.

Federico Giannini - Ilaria Baratta

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