SI VIS PACEM PARA COMPRENSIONEM
2022
Two-component water dispersion resins on concrete
ca. 18m (diam)
Location: Bollate (MI). Italy
The work speaks of peace as a driving force, as a journey to be undertaken.
A journey without a destination, but full of experiences to be made, possibly lived together, so that all of them can make you better.
The peace I'm talking about is therefore empirical, experiential, not ideal or utopian.
The small square thus becomes a ship in the shape of a geometric flower that floats above the universe, the seats take up the colours of the flag of peace and each colour is re-proposed in the opposite passage and goes up the side of the adjacent benches. In this way I wanted to represent the need to understand and be understood by those who are far away.
On each bench there is a human figure in white (the colour that contains them all, expressing the ability to put oneself in the place of others), painted in anamorphic technique so as to create a privileged view away from the bench, representing the need to know how to question oneself and move away from preconceived positions.
The piazza is dedicated to Gino Strada and Teresa Sarti. Two quotations from them are inscribed on the leaves of the cut stem of the flower:
"If each of us did a little bit of it, we would find ourselves in a more beautiful world without even realising it" (Teresa Sarti)
"Let's stop supporting wars and let's stop supporting those who support them, those who finance them, those who defend them, those who praise them" (Gino Strada)