Slancio

GIACOMO TRINGALI & MASSIMO MAZZONE

Slancio is the winning entry of the public tender for the creation of anartwork for the new terminal of Marco Polo International Airport inVenice, Italy.

Venice is water and sky, but also land that was torn away from salted waters.

For this reason, an artwork for the airport is not only a bright contrail but also a blade that cuts, traces, affects the air as a plow would do with a clump of land, in a semantic context between over and under, solid, liquid and gas.

In fact, the achievements of the wild workers come from earth and water, evoking from the words of Pope John XXII – so that the glory of San Marco and Italy’s banners could be renewed on the roads of the skies. – Such workers have offered their fatigue for the creation of a better future, and have bet on a vision that will let them fly and break free.

The sculpted material needs to be able to represent and illuminate their ideal of progress. In this case, it reflects and multiplies the effects of light as it would multiply the strength of laborious hands with the power of steel.

Without forgetting what the genius Leonardo taught us – flying is not only vibration, lightness and tension; it is also a change of space, thus being exactly what the sculpture is while affecting the atmosphere’s density.

Aeroporto Internazionale Marco Polo di Tessera – Venezia

steel Cor-Ten A, 200 x h820 x 350 cm

2017

Contributors

Structural and Executive Project: Progress Engineering srl Venosa (Potenza)
Building and construction: Tecnostrutture srl Noventa di Piave (Venice)
Project Lights: Flavio Paragona
Rendering: Arch. Federico Dal Brun
3D Models: AIR architects