With the lighting installations by Martinelli Luce
In the heart of a marble quarry, “Wunderkammer” comes to life, a contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities that invites visitors to an immersive journey through light, sound and matter. Inspired by the Renaissance idea of the chamber of wonders, Wunderkammer has reinterpreted its spirit with lightness, alternating works of art, unexpected presences and light installations collected – as was once the case – along a path made up of encounters and visions. Nothing is taken seriously in a wunderkammer – except wonder. Thus, even the quarry, with its geological and industrial stratifications, becomes part of the narrative device: it is itself a relic, an archive and a setting.
The exhibition features three works from Filippo Tincolini’s series “Rinascita dagli scarti” (Rebirth from Waste): the Satiro dei Sassi (Satyr of the Stones), the Venere dei Sassi (Venus of the Stones) and a life-size Fiat 500. All three were created from marble waste, which was reassembled into new blocks of stone and cement, themselves objects of wonder. These “reconstructed” blocks, sculpted using robotic technology and finished by hand, reinterpret classical statuary and Italian popular culture with irony and rigour. The result is an aesthetic that evokes collective craftsmanship and local memory, as if each work were born from a cultural stratification that combines archaeology, technology, art and design.
Interrupted sculptures, suspended bodies, objects marked by time and machinery. Wunderkammer is a journey through the quarry gallery, where each space reveals a new “chamber of wonders”.
In opposition to – but also in dialogue with – these shapes and signs are the lighting installations by Martinelli Luce: perfect, geometric, extremely refined. Lines of light that pierce the stone and amplify its tension. Where the material is rough, the light is sharp. Where the shape is broken, the light reconstructs it. It is a somewhat surreal, somewhat playful journey into a quarry that, for one evening, ceases to be a quarry and becomes a magic wardrobe, a labyrinth of wonders, an inverted Platonic cave: no longer a prison of the mind but a liberation of the senses.
