Living. Once Again, Vittorio Corsini returns to reflect on architecture and the relationship between body and space. He draws architectural plans, choosing from among those created thousands of years ago by religion for its places of worship. He enlarges them compared to the normal view found in history books and reduces them compared to reality. He presents them in their geometric power, as black, abstract signs, to describe mighty, centuries-old walls, where (in reality) many lives, millions of lives, have lived, prayed and hoped, in moments of closeness to their inner selves (and God).
Today, those images, those floor plans, beautiful, intense and crystalline, become carpets, soft elements of domestic architecture, fundamental companions in life for many types of people, in different latitudes, in every part of the world, among different ethnic groups and races, and just as many cultures, “places” that welcome, “spaces of new foundation”. Carpets that preserve the power of those signs and those dreams, after being placed at one's side, like on the simplest of bedside tables, a book. A book that can only be read by one person, the lucky one who comes into possession of it, the one who discovers its hidden title, “Self Training”, thus understanding its meaning, purpose and goal: a “tool for mental gymnastics”, for “self-growth”. Volume with orange silk cover (referring to the general title of the exhibition ‘Orange Mood’, which alludes to the positive energy of the creative act, as opposed to the meditative state of mind of ‘Blue Mood’) which actually contains a sort of instruction manual in the form of a travelogue (to be read in quotation marks, and therefore in a broader sense) that its victorious author undertook in order to tune into those thoughts. A precious and unique manual, a Baedeker guide where you can find, in sequences of double-page spreads, a continuous ping-pong of information, poems and images, drawings and notes, and carefully selected quotations from the new thinkers of our modern age, such as Marc Augè's “perhaps we are learning to change the world before we imagine it”. Yes. On the walls, texts sought and found in the words suggested by the sacred scriptures of the four great religions, indications, references and examples relating to the idea of living, the meaning of living, the world of living. To continue to take care of things, and above all of people.