Preludio #1: Marcello Maloberti

Preludio is the new name for the creation of a keynote original work by a major contemporary Italian artist to be commissioned each year. Placed at the Main Entrance or other entrances, the work created for this year’s Preludio is both premise and threshold, literally a beginning, the first image visitors see as they enter Arte Fiera.

The artist invited for Arte Fiera’s 49th edition, Marcello Maloberti (b. 1966, Codogno, Lodi), offers the site-specific project KOLOSSAL: a large temporary installation, a precarious monument, an anti-monument that welcomes visitors inside.
A crane on a truck outside has uprooted a Bologna road sign from its original setting and holds it suspended between earth and sky evoking the city’s history. Clumps of soil and concrete left piled around two support poles as roots denote origin. The work hangs in the air, an open door to the infinite sky, its upward quest and tension elevating an entire city.

For as long as Arte Fiera is open, the installation will be enlivened by numerous posters created for the occasion that will accompany visitors as they move around the fairgrounds and city themselves.

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