Posts Tagged ‘Carlo Scarpa’
TORQUE
& the proposal some days ago to climb a sinuous Scarpa “tromba delle scale” / “conch-shaft of stairs— that’s how, late one night, we solved the phrase in translation of Amelia Rosselli’s “The Libellula”— wrong foot first: more infant steps up through the byways of history & love at first insight, & second & third.
TOY HORSES
In this museum at Castelvecchio reconfigured like a game of chess, where the becoming-aesthetic of civic objects such as requisite ubiquitous equestrian statues on our floors become platforms, surrounded by virtual moats, triggers not a thinning of substance, but some brief redemption of charging history— as the windows drop veils on the heroes, as the [...]
3-D THESIS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
Patron of Dante, on Scarpa’s stage, 700 years on, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny— of the bells of Cangrande silent in bronze below and above, displaced from their official functions in the chronicle, ringing.