BOLOGNA.- The Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna presents a site-specific installation by Grazia Toderi and Gilberto Zorio, as a part of Art City 2025, curated by Cristina Francucci, with texts by Gianfranco Maraniello.

The work Torri: Terra almost entirely occupies the central space of the Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, establishing a dialogue with its late-Baroque architecture and history, renewing the spatial-temporal boundaries of the place.

In the darkness of the Oratorio, the five points of the two Torri Stella by Gilberto Zorio – one of the leading figures of the Italian Arte Povera movement, which emerged in the 1960s – meet and intertwine in a dance marked by different symmetries. Made from hundreds of stacked white masonry blocks, the towers create an alternation of cracks, gaps, and openings that establish a connection between the interior and the exterior, transforming the space into a continuous dialogue between matter and light.

Since 1976, Zorio has begun projecting a recurring symbol in his research – the five-pointed star – vertically through architectural structures. This symbol has become the foundation of an artistic reflection that develops in the continuous dialogue between sculpture and architectural space. The artist's architecture expresses the relationship between material reality and the symbolic dimension, merging form and thought. Zorio's work is an invitation to overcome the physical and mental boundaries that often limit art.

The projections We Mark by Grazia Toderi, interacting with the surfaces of the Torri Stella and the Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, change shape and design, revealing different levels of meaning through their own spatiality and temporality. The projected images, composed of hundreds of overlapping frames, offer a satellite view of the Earth, which, continuously rotating, transforms into a magmatic substance of reddish color.

The sound accompanying the projections further amplifies the sensory dimension of the work. The piece encapsulates the tension towards the imagination of vast and immeasurable spaces that, despite their enormity, find reconciliation with a human scale.