Uffizi, Vasari Auditorium inaugurated

The Uffizi Gallery is enriched with a new Auditorium dedicated to Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511 - Florence, 1574), the architect of the complex, which was inaugurated by director Eike Schmidt. The new Auditorium, located on the ground floor of the west wing, is equipped with an audiovisual projection and amplification system with a retractable screen and will be connectable with the museum’s internal route, or alternatively can function as an independent facility accessible from the outside.

Schmidt said,"Florence is enriched with a new place for cultural enhancement, education and the dissemination of knowledge: a space specially equipped to host lectures, scientific conferences, public debates and cultural events in a broad sense."

Meanwhile, construction work on the new Uffizi is also advancing, with the opening of three new rooms, which retain the original Vasarian module: these are the Room of the Sleeping Ariadne, a space dedicated to conventions and conferences with a Roman copy of a Hellenistic sculpture from the third century B.C. in the center, the Room of the Uffizi Factory and a room dedicated to Arata Isozaki. The latter documents the famous international competition on the exit of the Uffizi, won by the Japanese architect, still to be realized after a long stop.

Regarding Isozaki, Schmidt said, “I am expressing a very clear solicitation: here we have a construction site where little is happening as far as a resolution of this urban space, which is so central to Florence, and so far it is a black hole with a big crane on top of it. This is a problem that absolutely must be solved.” Andrea Pessina, superintendent ofArchaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for Florence, Prato and Pistoia, speaking at the inauguration, emphasized, “The restoration work, which has affected the ground floor of the so-called Uffizi Corti for the first time, has made it possible to carry out some important archaeological investigations, taking us a further step forward in our knowledge, which has never been completely exhaustive, of the immense Uffizi factory.”

Uffizi, Vasari Auditorium inaugurated

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