AXIS MUNDI

The works by sculptor Raffaello Galiotto, on view in the courtyard of one of the oldest public museums in Europe, are part of a dialogue between, on the one hand, a varied epigraphic collection, tomb fragments, cinerary urns, column bases and milestones gathered for conservation and academic study in a picturesque open-air space and, on the other hand, contemporary art. Not so much an antiquarian project as a way of creating rich interaction between the weighty presence of a living past and Galiotto’s stonework, which is distinctive for its organic configurations, refined proportions and elegant symmetries, while also being subtly disjointed, marking its profound contemporaneity.