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COLLECTIVE TRIBUTE TO RAVENNA
“Dante - an exile welcomed in Ravenna - wrote an opera for everyone. With this initiative, we can all create a work for Dante: the laurel wreath, which he desired until the end. A sign of welcome, respect and gratitude, today as in the past.”
Michele de Pascale - Mayor of the city of Ravenna
The art work is located in the wonderful frame of the hanging gardens of the Palazzo della Provincia in Ravenna, and it intends to reconstruct an ideal laurel wreath, an acknowledgment awaited by the Poet throughout his life and exile, part of which spent in Ravenna, the city that welcomes his remains.
It is a copper crown, two and a half meters in diameter, in which there are 1423 cracks - the number is for symbolic reference to the partitions of the Divine Comedy - in which the participants in the collective event will be able to insert as many leaves. In the central part there is a metal plate that shows, laser engraved, the real reproduction of the celestial vault, illuminated from below to recreate the Milky Way.
The work, designed by Luisa Bocchietto, intends to bring together two symbols, the laurel and the stars, which refer to Dante's wishes: the earthly ambition to see his literary activity recognized and the tension of otherworldly elevation towards a higher world, symbolized by the stars, through faith and love.
You can buy your keychain online or in Ravenna's museums, and participate to this collective work.
