Preferisco il rumore del mare, Concorso di progettazione Piazza Verdi - La Spezia 2009
Shortlisted among the top five entries, is the project realised in collaboration with Studio 5 + 1 AA in 2009 on the occasion of the design contest to renovate Piazza Giuseppe Verdi from an architectural and artistic point of view. The contest was promoted by city of di La Spezia and P.A.A.L.M.A. (Premio Artista Architetto La Marrana Arte Ambientale) in collaboration with Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio della Spezia.
The artist with architects presented a project with the title-manifesto, Preferisco il rumore del mare (I prefer the sound of the sea), also title of a film directed by Mimmo Calopresti (2000), inspired by a verse of Dino Campana.
The idea was to realise a flooring with a decoration made of tiles and rubberized asphalt whose colours were inspired by the mosaics of Fillia, Prampolini e Mazzoni inside the close Palazzo della Posta. Moreover, they wanted to place inside the square 99 red and blue trumpets, connected to the tide predictions centre in Genoa. The trumpets would have emitted a whistle, registered by the artist, in case of high tide.
The project is coherent with the artist consolidated practice of public art, and we can see some recurring elements such as the use of trumpets in Le Famose Campane di Desio (1999) and in the installation TA PUM inside Castello del Buonconsiglio and Museo degli Alpini of Trento (2009).
Liliana Moro, Le Famose Campane di Desio (Desio’s famous bells), 1999, acoustic trumpets, bell bells, tower building, variable dimensions. PS1 - New York. Photo by the artist. Private collection.
