HEMEROTECA
21/11/2013
Huge success for Marmomacc & the City – the initiative organised by Marmomacc in collaboration with the Order of Architects and Verona City Council – that from 25 September until a few days ago turned the city centre into an open air art site.
Architect Laura De Stefano, the coordinator of this initiative, was enthusiastic: It@¬#s rewarding to learn that a project intended to bring the cultural heritage of stone design into the living, vital social fabric of Verona achieved its purpose so well, involving the city to such an extent that in some cases we were even asked to leave these works permanently on site. All the more, we are delighted to know that the impeccable work of the companies taking part offered tourists and local people a unique and unrepeatable vision of Verona which will remain in their photo albums.
The impact on the city differed depending on individual works, their use and degree of immediate understanding – yet all twelve installations stimulated an interesting cultural debate and presented urban settings in unusual way through different perspectives.
At its second edition, Marmomacc & the City falls is one of Marmomacc@¬#s projects intended to promote and spread stone culture with the aim of involving the general public outside the exhibition centre as such and thereby stimulate a more modern and contemporary re-interpretation of this ancient material.
The next edition of Marmomacc will be held from 24 to September 27, 2014.
The companies taking part:
Barsi Marmi, Cave Marmi Ac, Franchi Umberto Marmi, Grassi Pietre, Imercrea, La Quadrifoglio Marmi & Graniti, Lavagnoli Marmi, Lithos Design, Margraf, Marini Marmi, Marmobon, Testi Fratelli.
* For further information: www.marmomacc.it
