The SAVE (Venice Marco Polo-Tessera Airport) announced in 2012 an international competition for the erection of a sculpture in the Venetian airport.
In 2013, the Commission responsible selected ten finalists among many participants, which included artists and architects (Giacomo Tringali and Massimo Mazzone, Ogata Yoshinobu, Riccardo Cordero, Giancarlo Marchese, Claudio Capotondi, Vittorio Gentile, Sergio Capellini, Arturo Vittori and Andrea Voegler, Antonio Follina, Antonio Caselli).
The winning group was Mazzone/Tringali with their project entry 'Slancio' which was dedicated to the theme of flight and work.
The sculpture will be all set for installation in 2014, in the bed in front of the boarding area.
Meanwhile, the project will be presented on September 13th, at 18:00, at AIR Studio Architects in Rome (Via Casilina 110, Rome-Italy) with a press release and complimentary spritz cocktails for all participants.
Description of project.
The form of the artwork (a constructed sculpture, neither modeled nor sculpted) was inserted into the architectural functional space, respecting the atmosphere of the Venice lagoon, resembling the trajectory of an airplane on takeoff and landing, as well as a plow or a gondola rowlock.
'Slancio' consists of a triangular prism of COR-TEN steel that features a curvilinear movement (helical), rising from the ground through an anchorage in the subsurface: 50 cubic meters of sunken concrete plinth and nine micro piles, 9 meters each.
From that little anchor-point in the ground, the sculpture emerges diagonally to almost 4 meters. Rising to the sky, and outlining a wide corner that reaches 9 meters in height and gradually tapering to the end, as a wing.
The reddish color of COR-TEN A steel is harmoniously combined with the red brick of this interesting airport designed by architect Mar. During the night, a soft cone of light, from below, illuminates and defines the volumes of the sculpture, marking and alternating light, shadow and gloomy parts.
Text.- Arianna Saroli.
CREDITS.-
Authors.- Giacomo Tringali (winner of the competition for a Library in Cles, Trento) and Massimo Mazzone (Professor of Sculpture’s Techniques at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera-Milan)
Engineer.- Andrea Imbrenda (winner of the American Prize Excellence in Structural Engineering Award del Nacional Council of Structural Engineers Associations.
Graphical part.- Federico Dal Brun, architect.
3D modeling.- AIR studio architects.
Previous models of the work.- sculptors Osvaldo Tiberti y Michele D’Agostino.
Collaborators.- Giulia Mazzorin, Laura Cazzaniga, Alessandro Zorzetto y Emiliano Coletta.
