Guarene, 17 May. A new permanent sculpture by Marinella Senatore has been installed at the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Art Park in Guarene, in the province of Cuneo. “In everyone, everyone’s trace”, commissioned by the Foundation, is a large work of light that the artist conceived, starting from Primo Levi, for the hill of San Licerio, a place dedicated to the dialogue between nature and art.
As is typical of Senatore’s practice, the inauguration was accompanied by a festive promenade, open to all people and punctuated by music and performances. “Walking together – Marinella Senatore said – seems like a very simple action, in reality it is truly transformed. Doing things together and doing them on the street has a very strong meaning”.
The luminous writing, selected with a public call addressed to the community of Guarene, is taken from a poem by Levi dedicated to friendship. An aspect that Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo also returned to: “The only thing I feel like saying linked to this sentence – she told the audience at the inauguration – is that it speaks of friendship, and here we are all friends, because a meeting, a moment is enough and from that moment we are friends. I think it is the most beautiful message we can give and leave each other”.
Starting from the tradition of the illuminations of Southern Italy, Senatore has built over the years a series of interventions that combine aesthetic beauty and recognisability with a series of profound and political messages, linked to the relationship between people and the idea of enhancing communities, in their specific characteristics. “Reflecting on the idea of community, of coexistence, of the past and of a vision of the future, but above all of the here and now”.
That here and now which is basically the time of the contemporary, in the moment in which we really experience it.
