The Vitality of Marble

1972 Michelucci, Moore and Michelangelo

Curated by Marco Ciampolini and Emanuela Ferretti, the exhibition remains open until September 15 at the Museo CARMI in Carrara (MS)

[…]The exhibition narrative unfolds over three thematic nuclei, identified by Professor Emanuela Ferretti: the development of the initial idea of a ‘monument’ to Michelangelo by the Circolo Arturo Dazzi and its president Pierantonio Balli (1904-1987); the genesis and design path of Michelucci’s Memorial to Michelangelo, in all its articulations; the focus, with unpublished materials, on Moore’s great anthological exhibition at Forte Belvedere (1972), as an evocative piece of the context of reference…

The exhibition route adopts diverse media: original drawings, prints, models, photographs and multimedia films. Specifically, video interviews performed for the occasion are presented, with professor emeritus Giorgio Bonsanti director of the recent restoration of the River God (2018), and architect Piero Micheli responsible for the installation of Moore’s 1972 exhibition. Added to the latter is the recovery of an important video-document curated by professor emeritus Guido Spezza, produced during the exhibition by the University of Florence’s Experimental Cabinet for Film Research and now preserved in the Multimedia Laboratory of the University of Florence.[…]