Alfredo Pirri: Passi

Curated by Helga Marsala, the installation by Alfredo Pirri covers the entire surface of the Sala Ipostila of Castello Maniace. The floor is covered with fractured walkable mirrors, carrying out a fascinating transformation of a thousand-year-old monument thanks to the conceptual strength and visionary power of contemporary art.

For this debut in Sicily, the installation finds a way to redesign the environment, creating a perfect synthesis between architecture and nature, between history and contemporary art.

The audience walking on the surface – which can be walked on safely thanks to the type of material used – becomes the protagonist of a collective performance by shattering the mirrors. On the shattered floor “float”, as evidence emerged from the abyss, some finds from the “Paolo Orsi” Archaeological Museum in Syracuse, in dialogue with the very light colored spheres made by the artist: they are heavy stone “bullets” of ancient catapults, here they have become mysterious, metaphysical objects, with a strong symbolic and formal value