(ANSA) - L'AQUILA, 28 MAY - In the small chapel on the plateau, admirably restored, the Column in the void by Ettore Spalletti almost touches, with its lay invitation to look at the sky. A few rooms before, William Kentridge's extraordinary tapestries are an explosion of life and colors, large geographical maps that refer to the diaspora and nomadism. While Luca Trevisani's ostrich feathers in another dialogue room with that sort of surreal time machine that is Alberto Garutti's telabicolore. The irrepressible contemporary art in L'Aquila in the eighteenth-century Palazzo Ardinghelli, restored to its former glory thanks to the 7 million euro donations in 2009 from the Russian Federation, and tells all the energy of the brand new Maxxi L 'Aquila that after the stop due to the pandemic finally opens its doors to the public.
"It is not a branch office, this is the Maxxi", underlines the passionate president Giovanna Melandri, explaining the project of a museum that aims to be "a laboratory, an engine of culture, art, international contacts and with the territory". Here in L'Aquila, he promises, "we will bring the jewels of the national collection and all the souls of the Maxxi that we inaugurated in Rome on May 28 11 years ago". Beside her, the Minister of Culture Franceschini, "the first to have the idea of hosting a large museum in the restored building". And who today applauds the work done, the incredible restoration, the staging of the exhibition, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Margherita Guccione, not surprisingly entitled Punto di equilibria, with the installations donated by 8 great contemporary artists,from Elisabetta Benassi to Paolo Pellegrin, from Stefano Cerio to Daniela De Lorenzo, up to the young Russian Anastasia Potemkina, who converse with many super masters already in the collection of the Roman museum, from Cattelan to Boetti, from Toyo Ito to Piero Manzonie Maria Lai. "A really beautiful day - commented the minister - another gesture not to forget, to move forward with the reconstruction. And also a beautiful story of sharing in the time of a goal", he underlines, recalling the wedding list of monuments to help, an idea by Berlusconi at the G8 in L'Aquila in July 2009. (ANSA).A really beautiful day - comments the minister - another gesture not to forget, to move forward with the reconstruction. It is also a beautiful story of sharing a goal in time ", he underlines, recalling the wedding list of monuments to be helped, an idea of Berlusconi at the G8 in L'Aquila in July 2009. (ANSA).A really beautiful day - comments the minister - another gesture not to forget, to move forward with the reconstruction. It is also a beautiful story of sharing a goal in time ", he underlines, recalling the wedding list of monuments to be helped, an idea of Berlusconi at the G8 in L'Aquila in July 2009. (ANSA).
