BARI - It will be an exhibition that will open in the coming days the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the 'Gran Madre di Dio' Concattedrale in Taranto, designed by the architect Gio Ponti and commissioned by Archbishop Guglielmo Motolese.
The exhibition, entitled 'Gio Ponti and the Taranto Concattedrale 1970-2020.
The dream of a city, the dream of its citizens and the dream of Guglielmo and Giovanni ', will be set up in the diocesan museum of Taranto.
And it will be open to the public as soon as the anti-Covid containment measures allow it.
Meanwhile, on the 'concattedraletaranto2020.it' website, where the program of events will be published, there are some images of the exhibition.
As part of the celebrations, the Municipality of Taranto will also confer honorary citizenship 'post mortem' to Gio Ponti, thus fulfilling a wish of the great architect.
Furthermore, from Monday 7 December, thanks to an agreement between the Municipality and the city archdiocese, the restoration works of the basins in front of the Concattedrale will start, with the aim of recovering the original idea of Gio Ponti who had imagined his work as a ship with outstretched sails that was reflected in the waters of the Ionian Sea.
Among other activities for the celebrations, there are the publication of the book 'Gio Ponti and the Co-Cathedral of Taranto.
Letters to the client Guglielmo Motolese (1964-1979) ', edited by Vittorio De Marco (Silvana Ed.), And the conference' Gio Ponti and the Taranto Co-Cathedral 1970-2020.
Protagonists, liturgy, protection and enhancement '(scheduled for spring 2021).
The conference is sponsored, among others, by the National Office for Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage and the building of worship of the CEI.
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