Artist JR Has Symbolically ‘Reopened’ a Shuttered Florence Museum With a Photocollage of Its Interior on the Facade » Design You Trust — Design Daily Since 2007
Artist JR Has Symbolically ‘Reopened’ a Shuttered Florence Museum With a Photocollage of Its Interior on the Facade – Design You Trust — Design Daily Since 2007

Artist JR Has Symbolically ‘Reopened’ a Shuttered Florence Museum With a Photocollage of Its Interior on the Facade


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As half of Italy heads back into lockdown, the French artist JR (previously) has unveiled a major installation on the façade of the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence that stresses the importance of maintaining access to culture during the public health crisis.

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Several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, and Venice, have been back under lockdown since March 15, and will remain closed until April 6. While Florence is under slightly less stringent restrictions than some other areas, museums and other cultural institutions are shuttered.


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JR has used his signature photocollage method to create a site-specific installation on the exterior of the Renaissance palazzo. Titled La Ferita, Italian for “The Wound,” the work creates an optical illusion of a great gash running through the institution’s external walls. Through the cracks, those on the outside can once again peer into a black-and-white vision of the interior of the shuttered building, with some of Florence’s famous artworks and cultural heritage on view.


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Arturo Galansino, the museum director says he feels a strong sense of responsibility to continue the museum’s public mission while it remains closed, focusing on online education initiatives as well as public art commissions. Fittingly, the JR installation inaugurates a new annual public art commission for the city, aimed at supporting the production and promotion of contemporary art in Italy. The Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi conceived the new Future Art Program with the philanthropist Andy Bianchedi.


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The director hope to be able to reopen the museum’s doors as soon as possible. In the meantime, Galansino speaks of a quiet city that has been denuded of the domestic and international tourists that are usually part of the fabric of daily life. “The beauty of our city is an important legacy which must be experienced and activated by the people,” he says, adding that the successive shutdowns have damaged “not only the economy of our territory but also our identity and our lifestyle.”


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