GIANCARLO GRAMANTIERI & FINALBA DI PIETRO
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project for the furnishing of the entrance to the underpass between Viale Giorgio Pallavicini and Piazzale Aldo Moro
from September 28 to October 6, 2024
The Exhibition
Strongly desired by Giancarlo Gramantieri and included in the program of the Farini Social Week 2024, the exhibition re-proposes the illustrations created by Finalba Di Pietro for the furnishing project of the entrance to the underpass that connects Viale Giorgio Pallavicini with Piazzale Aldo Moro, inaugurated in October 2017.
Recognized throughout the world for its artistic beauty, Ravenna preserves the richest heritage of mosaics dating back to the 5th and 6th centuries AD, kept inside its early Christian and Byzantine religious buildings, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. We find them in the drawings on the walls, together with the copy of a map of Ravenna made at the end of the 19th century by Savini; and then a panoramic illustration that presents the Romagna territory from San Marino to the nine Ravenna shores; then the reproduction of historical photos of the city kept by the Classense library and shots of the statues of the Alighieri theater, the gates of Ravenna, the mausoleum of Theodoric and Palazzo Merlato.
The redevelopment project that concerns the underpass that connects the station to the Darsena, between Viale Pallavicini and Piazzale Moro, intends to offer people who walk through it many small tastes of the wonders that our city has to offer. All in 70 DBond panels that have replaced the previous ones in plexiglass, defaced and made dangerous by the damage caused by acts of vandalism. The existing murals have been cleaned, as have the lights and ceilings. All the flooring has been restored.
The intervention was carried out by the association Naviga in Darsena (president Paolo Monduzzi) with the contribution of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna and the local Chamber of Commerce.
The illustrations are by Finalba Di Pietro; the historical consultancy by Laura Gramantieri; the photographic research by Enzo Pezzi; the panoramic illustration by Franco Franchini, the graphic design by Giancarlo Gramantieri and Delio Mancini.
The Artist
Finalba Di Pietro, from Abruzzo, trained artistically with the master Giuseppe Caporossi in Rome at the end of the 60s. In 1973 she moved to Florence, in the hills, where she lives and works. In Tuscany she taught graphic design for ceramics and fashion, worked in the advertising graphics sector, interior design, and jewelry creation. For years she has dedicated herself exclusively to her art, watercolors on paper, mixed techniques on cardboard and wood, ceramic sculptures. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Italy and abroad, in prizes and competitions. Equally numerous are the personal exhibitions in Rome, Florence, Viterbo, Livorno, Marseille, Milan, Chicago.
