Showing architecture, piece by piece
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We thought of the exhibition path at Palazzo della Ragione in Padua as a kind of wandering between worlds: the social one of the polis that transforms itself; The poetic one of the absence of gravity; The most strictly design of the building; The ideal one who considers art as a powerful tool of collective consciousness. There is a continuous gap between these different worlds, which inevitably confuse, overlap. Large monographic tables are islands of an archipelago. Above them, above, everything flies, everything is suspended. The notion of the absence of gravity – which characterizes the imprint, the way of our Renzo Piano Building Workshop – is expressed semantically by the light navigating of the models and images of the Grand Hall of the Palazzo della Ragione. I like to think that this exhibition can once again be navigating space.
Renzo Piano