The “Piazza del Vento” is a collective and multisensorial installation, which derives from an inspiration shared with Renzo Piano to celebrate a new rite of urbanity of the city of Genoa on the sea.
Strongly wanted by Ucina Confindustria Nautica and Spim, the project represents the legacy of
Salone Nautico to the city: designed for a temporary event, it turned into a permanent public artwork, thus enhancing the strong link between the Salone Nautico and Genova.
We designed a “field” of 57 masts in red maple wood and white steel, 12 meters tall and bound together with textile stay-cables with dacron jibs inferred on. On the top of each mast a windex is placed, sewing colored spinnaker's fabric highlighting the direction and the intensity of the wind. Among the masts, some double seat swings are placed, where to sit as couple in the shade of the sails, while looking toward the sea.
Cooperating with the musician Roberto Pugliese, Margherita Del Grosso and Matteo Orlandi have created the sound field “MelodieMediterranee” played by the wind: a system of brass rods of different length, arranged according to a precise spatial scheme among the masts, reflects the sounds of the mare nostrum with chords from a Mediterranean musical scale, activated by the action of the wind
The installation also involves the poet and street artist Ivan Tresoldi, who performs with his group Artkademy together with the visitors of Salone Nautico creating the anamorphosis: “Who throws seeds in the wind will make the sky flourish”.
Material Used :
Masts:
Red maple wood – CapoferriSerramenti
Tubular galvanized steel painted in white – CapoferriSerramenti
Acrylic enamel paint for the artistic installation “A.mare”
Brass canes for the artistic installation “MelodieMediterranee”
Sails:
Dacron jibs with textile stay-cables – North Sails
Windex in spinnaker’s colored fabric – North Sails + Quantum Sails
Flooring: Concrete base
