A
POETRY
FOR THE CITY
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Vittorio Mazzucconi has worked in different cities and nations, leaving
in many of them a prominent sign of his passing: to name a few, the famous
building of the Avenue
Matignon and the "Citadelle"
of Parigi, the"New
Agora" and the "Polis
Centre"of Athens, "The
Dawning City"project for the new centre in Florence, and many other
projects presented in the Exhibition.
The presentation of these works, that date back to different periods, is
divided in separate areas (or in the corresponding chapters of the catalogue)
under the subtitles: MEDIOLANUM LUTETIA FLORENTIA ATHENA
These are the Roman names of the major cities in which Mazzucconi has operated,
to signify that his stays in these cities were not merely as a professional
need for his activity, so much as a spiritual participation whose intensity
went beyond the contingent aspect of the city or, for that matter, of his
artistic experience. Apart from these names, which are aspects and legs
of the same evolution, one must add the first period (the period of study
and travel) shown in the Exhibition. |
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| Periods
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1947-1961 |
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Studies and projects in Milan
Paris, London... |
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1962-1971 |
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Projects for Milan and Lumbardy |
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1972-1987 |
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Projects for Paris and France |
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1970-1985 |
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"The
Dawning City" per project for the new centre of Florence |
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1983-1996 |
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Projects for Athens |
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Painting
The Golden Fleece
1978, 100 x 100, Oil on Canvas |
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Finally, another sector of primary importance is that
regarding painting; that is in constant contact with the external
world and yet that succumbs before all other forms of expression.
Just like Mazzucconi's projects pay no heed to the political circumstances
of the reality to which they are destined, so his pictorial works
are free of the market's impositions, the tendencies, the language,
aiming purely at the soul: a painting capable of becoming evidence
and registration of the authentic way, similarly to architecture but
in a more quenched and proximate manifestation of the inner life.
The paintings were once a major chapter of the first edition of the
itinerant exhibition of Florence, Paris and Athens. Yet they were
later separated from architecture, for space reasons and for reasons
of homogeneity of the themes covered. They are now part of separate
Exhibitions inside of the Foundation:
ART AS AN INNER QUEST |
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