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A MOSAIC masterpiece in progress
The monumental 1000 square metre mosaic in the cloisters of the Foresteria displays the artist’s talent in full: the design is the base from which he draws individual forms and colours. Mosaics are not seen simply as a striking way of decorating a surface, but as a model for depth, implying the third dimension through an intricate network of field lines, mobile and changeable in space and time. Every colour used in the enormous mosaic work, within the rigorous geometry that leads to dimensional composition, is accompanied by a predetermined symbology. Redefinitions play a primary function in the mosaics: colours, in other
words, as the result of meditated visual communication and real perception, in opposition to the colours of the reality represented by the design. In progress a monumental mosaic that will be a tribute to the history of art in the world and throughout all times. All outside walls (1000 square meters) will be covered with a historical depiction of art, beginning in the year 4000 B.C. and wrapping around to the current modern art period. All of this will be done using primary and complementary colours and ceramic coloured tiles.
Colour
The architecture is conceived in an inner equilibrium which reveals the need for colour as the highest and most complete formulation. Each colour used for the roof of the Residence and the Wind Rose, according to a strict geometry that leads to dimensional compositions, is accompanied by a predetermined symbology. Complementary colours take on a primary function: colours, in other words, as the result of meditated visual communication and real perception, in opposition to the colours of the reality represented by the design. The image of space is perceived through strong colours, inspired by Spatari’s theory of complementary colours, used by the artist in his architecture, paintings, sculptures and mosaics.
A persistent Pythagorean esprit de geometrie controls the movement of tiles in the figurative layout, while the chromatic design feeds on the discovery of colours – now pale, now intense – and transparency, which vanish into splashes of colour and light. The colours, ordered and distinct within the free spaces, give the building its tonal vigour, essential in terms of space. Visitors can now discover the architect, the sculptor, the painter, the gardener, the defender of nature. The formidable structural control, the invention of new restoration and construction techniques find inspiration in the environment and its mediterranean heritage. This is a Museum Park that reflects its idea of fusion between humans and nature, the marriage of history and contemporary art and architecture.