Felice Limosani at Roberto Casamonti's Collection

Pieces of Peace

Pieces of Peace is the site-specific installation created by Felice Limosani for the courtyard of Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni, home of the Roberto Casamonti Collection. In the Renaissance courtyard of the palace, enclosed by the perfect geometries of its architectural lines, an obelisk will rise up to the height of the first arches, pointing skyward, suspended above a mirror of water. The surface of the obelisk will reflect everything around it, slowly changing perspective, thanks to its rotation. Felice Limosani, an artist who has made multidisciplinary training his strength, conceived Pieces of Peace commissioned by Roberto Casamonti, a work where every conceptual and physical limitation is thinned in favour of a visual harmony that integrates and makes all the elements involved converse and tune; a metaphysical work that creates a magnetic relationship of total adhesion with the viewer, physically welcoming him in a solemn ideal canon.

Limosani invites us to reflect on the present moment, on the collective desire for Peace, a coveted condition but constantly unfulfilled condition due to the inability to quell conflicts, the denial of rights, due to religious and ethnic tensions and environmental disasters. Pieces of Peace, in the author's intention, is a sign, it has nothing political, we are all called to contribute a piece to peace through culture, knowledge, education, kindness, mutual respect, values fundamental to its realisation, and art is therefore a means. Not surprisingly, the artist, has chosen an ancient form, for this narrative, a form that retraces History, as when Rome's army occupied Egypt and took away the obelisk of Heliopolis, dear to the Egyptians, as Sonia Zampini well describes in the critical essay accompanying the exhibition. In that case, something was taken away that, in addition to bearing witness to the conquest, represented the cultural identity of that place with all the implications related to the mythological symbolism it represented. Pieces of Peace is an ideal conjunction between heaven and earth, between the human dimension and the place of ideas; it is a desire to complete and balance opposites: us and the world, us and others.

The project is curated by Sonia Zampini, director of the Roberto Casamonti Collection. A book, Forma Edizioni, on the artist's work with texts by Sonia Zampini, Felice Limosani, Cristiano Seganfreddo and Jeffrey Schnapp will be published for the occasion.