Rome Fiumicino Airport boosts its ties with art, putting Giò Pomodoro's “Grande folla n.1” on display in Terminal 1.
The sculpture will be on display for a year
The 1964 bronze sculpture from the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, which will be on display at Fiumicino for a whole year, has been restored thanks to the support of Aeroporti di Roma.
The work reflects passengers in Terminal 1
On its sinuous golden and mirrored surface, the work projects a chiaroscuro alternation of solids and voids that multiply and distort the reflections of passengers in the Terminal. The alternating convex and concave surfaces create a fluid image of the “Piazza” in boarding area A, capturing all the vitality of the airport and enhancing its dynamism. The sculpture is accompanied in the internal square of Fiumicino airport by multimedia projections illustrating the Gnamc collection, the most important collection of Italian modern and contemporary art in the world.
“A tribute to Italian culture and art and to passengers”
“The exhibition of ‘Grande Folla n.1’ is a further tribute that ADR wishes to pay to Italian culture and art and to its passengers,- says c Vincenzo Nunziata, president of Aeroporti di Roma. -Hosting this exhibition at the airport demonstrates that Italy is not only the repository of an illustrious artistic heritage of the past, but is also capable of expressing a contemporary creative vitality. Our thanks go to the Gnamc for making this possible.”
An expression of Italian creativity
“This art work is one of the masterpieces of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, an imposing work that first attracts and then captures the gaze, and it shows that our country does not live solely on the reverberations of its magnificent tradition but continues to be an extraordinary hotbed of creativity,” said Renata Cristina Mazzantini, Director of the Gnamc.
