Non uccidere. Un’opera di Emilio Isgrò e un’architettura di Mario Botta
curated by Margherita Guccione
texts by Mario Botta, Bruno Corà, Alessandro Giuli, Margherita Guccione, Emilio Isgrò, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Claudio Strinati
MAXXI Editions
Italian
17×24 cm
91 pages
ISBN 9788894764659
€ 16
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Constitution of the Italian Republic, MAXXI commissioned a project from two of the greatest exponents of contemporary culture, the artist Emilio Isgrò and the architect Mario Botta. It is a monumental installation consisting of a semi-sphere of twenty-one cedar wood arches from Lebanon, containing eleven pairs of Sinai stone tablets from which emerges the single biblical fifth commandment that gives the work its title: Thou shalt not kill. The volume, accompanied by an extensive iconographic apparatus depicting the installation in the museums where it has been hosted so far, contains an introduction by Alessandro Giuli, unpublished texts by the two authors and essays by Bruno Corà and Claudio Strinati, as well as a conversation between the two masters with Margherita Guccione and Bartolomeo Pietromarchi.
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