Mimmo Paladino and Domenico Bianchi's trees lit in Florence

Also lit in Florence are the trees of Mimmo Paladino and Domenico Bianchi: the Three Artist Trees will light up three squares in the Tuscan capital until January 6, 2020 as part of Moon F-Light, a project organized by MUS.E. Three 18-meter-high site-specific works united by the same form: on December 8, Michelangelo Pistoletto ’s tree had been lit in Piazza della Repubblica, and on December 14 the other two were lit.

The tree by Paladino (Paduli, Benevento, 1948), in front of the Museo Novecento in Piazza Santa Maria Novella, features a sequence of numbers made of glowing neon. Una tombola per Firenze, this is the title Paladino chose for this work, alludes to the tradition of one of the most popular games around which families and communities gather during the Christmas holidays. However, numbers are also associated with the days of the calendar and the days of life.

In Piazza SS. Annunziata, on the other hand, Domenico Bianchi ’s (Anagni, 1955) tree has been placed: it consists of repeating signs that create an apparent movement, spatial and temporal, placing itself in direct relation to cosmology. This work embodies the artist’s thought, as it evokes a kind of harmony between the abstract forms of art and the image of the Cosmos. Solids and voids are drawn on the red surface of the tree, playing on transparencies, letting light escape from within.

Image: Mimmo Paladino’s tree, Una tombola per Firenze. Ph.Credit Andrea Paoletti

Mimmo Paladino and Domenico Bianchi's trees lit in Florence

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