Poesie di Neon
Gallerie d’Italia Milano
An enlightened, contemporary and reverent gaze which, between past and future, stages writings of light, metaphors and urban signs in the journey of time and space.
Guests in the colonnade of Palazzo Anguissola and in the Alessandro Garden, Manzoni's home, precious treasure chests of our memory and eternal words.
Luca Trazzi's luminous installations made with neon tubes are designed in a play of full and empty spaces, colours, lights and shadows, quotations of shapes and promises, "allegorical dedications" of a lost love, sending the viewer's thoughts back to another historic city symbol, the facade of Palazzo Carminati in Piazza del Duomo.
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The Project
From neon poetry it seems to revive the memory of the era of carousels with the illuminated signs that made the history of the great Milan.
The installation consists of 13 suspended lamps mounted in the colonnade of Palazzo Anguissola and 19 lamps positioned in the Alessandro Garden, Manzoni's home. The lamps hanging in the colonnade are all lit and blue; Made by hand with blown glass tubes, they are shaped at sight and filled with NE-neon noble gas.
They are composed of 12 petals with a height of 110 cm and a diameter of 20 cm. They were made with a central structure in transparent Plexiglas designed for ceiling fixing via a small stainless steel arm with relative power cable and HV transformers. for power supply complete with protection boards compliant with CE standards.
The external lamps handmade with blown glass tubes are shaped at sight and filled with NE-neon noble gas in various colors (blue, red, fuchsia, yellow and green) and have a height of 125 cm.
They were made with a central structure in transparent Plexiglas designed for fixing to the ground via a small stainless steel arm with relative power cable and HV transformers. for power supply complete with protection boards compliant with CE standards.
At the entrance to the exhibition route, a "neon poems" sign was mounted, made with all the same characteristics as the previous lamps in fuchsia colour. The writing takes up the calligraphy of Alessandro Manzoni extrapolated from an ancient book entitled "poems in beautiful calligraphy".
