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tell its beauty. If we could make sense of all our casual attention, we would realize that even a small mark on a white surface is sufficient to determine the start of a project and that the responsibility to develop this sign by creating communication, illusion, certainty or art is total , fascinating and engaging. I have used gray, and still use it off an on, as a colour and as a structure in order to describe black and white, or only in order to allow them “to ad dialogue” when it is needed.. V.C.: During your long career there will certainly have been so many satisfactions related to the art. If you think about your most recent reviews, which ones have created more gratification? M.M.: One of my most successful, and therefore important, exhibits was created in 2001 at the suggestion of Friedrich Ekmanns at the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat in Bottrop, Germany. The Director of the Museum (Ulrich Schumacher) wanted to purchase a large sculpture in painted steel, with a diameter of four meters, placed on a long base of black granite more than twelve meters long. The work was reproduced on a commemorative stamp for the German region of the Ruhr, named in 2010 European capital of culture. In 2005 in Ludwigshafen, on a night of great celebration and music, the project of a large sculpture of ten meters in granite and marble, called “Ombra Latina”, was inaugurated, made at the request of the Hack Museum Director (Richard Gassen) . In 2014 I had the honor of being hosted in the prestigious headquarters of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome. A large exhibition of works of art, architecture and design products, a selection of works related to the infinite world of thought and geometry, accompanied by the text of the curator Mariastella Margozzi. For my show in Rome, I have chosen to reinterpret Borromini’s project in Piazza San Pietro in the Vatican to give it a new slant that is both symbolic and modern as a tribute to the innovative ideas of Pope Francis. V.C.: In architecture, what were the most interesting “challenges”?
Sopra: (Above:) Scultura 105, 1971, cm 50x50x100 Sotto: (Below:) Marcello Morandini / sculture 40, 48 / 1968
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