BooksGloriaby Giorgio Andreotta Calò

Walking as a work of art in its own right.

Gloria is a diary, written between 24 August and 2 October 2019, recounting a forty-day journey on foot from Venice to L’Aquila along the imaginary line of the fault of the same name. Gloria is the name of the subterranean fault line where the European and African plates meet; it crosses a large part of Italy and is responsible for the telluric events that often affect the peninsula, its morphogenesis and its anthropological and cultural features. The journey retraced in reverse the transmission line of the seismic waves of the earthquake that struck Central Italy in 2016, in an attempt to establish a ritual and apotropaic reflection on the state of crisis generated by the earthquake.
The notion of motus is investigated and discussed by the author Giorgio Andreotta Calò, winner in 2012 of the Italian Contemporary Art Prize sponsored by the MAXXI, alongside critics, art historians and scientists. Together they will analyse the very idea of walking – a fundamental element of Calò’s artistic practice, understood as a concrete, symbolic, political and aesthetic gesture, becoming a work of art in its own right – in correspondence with telluric movement, the terrae motus that spreads out at a distance like a call.

Introduced by
Irene de Vico Fallani MAXXI Public Program Manager

Speakers
Giorgio Andreotta Calò author of the book, artist
Raffaella Frascarelli Director Nomas Foundation
Marco Modica Gran Sasso Science Institute
Alessandro Chiappanuvoli writer, Terre Mutate

Modera
Giuseppe Ricupero architect and researcher

In partnership with Humboldt Books, Gran Sasso Science Institute and Nomas Foundation