Progetto per la Fondazione Teseco per l’Arte, Pisa, 2000-01

The intervention conceived for the Fondazione Teseco per l’Arte in Pisa is born from the request to restore and rearrange three monumental marble shafts from the sixteenth-century located in the area in front of the Fondazione.1
Four metal structures with a square base stretched along the diagonals overlap one another in decreasing size. From bottom to top, the metal volumes contain three transparent columns, which rise up from the point where the three ancient shafts intersect on the ground. The last structure at the top instead houses a sphere, hanging in a central position.

1 In the Fall of 2000, Gail Cochrane, curator of the collection of the Fondazione Teseco per l’Arte in Pisa and in charge of the company’s site-specific projects, invited Paolini to conceive a work that included the shafts of three columns originally meant to be placed on the facade of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence, designed by Michelangelo. The project developed the following year by the artist was never realized.