Marbles Museum

Addressing the theme of an exhibition project inevitably means engaging with the ongoing debate on modes of display. The project concept emerges from the dialogue between the promoter’s various needs and expectations and the works themselves, in their specificity.

We sought to reconcile the objective of natural flexibility and adaptability of the exhibition system to different possible contexts with the intention of encouraging and supporting an emotional engagement with the visitor, while avoiding forced solutions or stylistic superimpositions aimed at easy visibility.

It therefore felt natural to adopt a language that is at once neutral in its relationship with the exhibited works, and yet possesses a strong, clear, and autonomous identity in relation to the context. We selected a material that belongs both to history and to modernity:

a burnished brass, monochrome yet not flat, used to shape simple but not predictable forms. These forms constitute, now and in future contexts, a distinct world dedicated to the “Marble Faces.”

The use of various possible exhibition components (bases, panels, lighting) has given rise to an “exhibition element” that is not merely a new object, but an experience. The forms, techniques, and materials employed in the installation present themselves in apparent service to the exhibited objects and their understanding. Yet their properties, called upon to reveal and develop those of the objects on display, in fact define them and are, in turn, defined by them. Through this interaction, they form a meaningful structure—an experience of knowledge.