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Masseria Torre Maizza > 7th August 2011

One perimeter to the sunrise - Pierluigi Calignano

In his work Pierluigi Calignano redefines the space of the Moroccan terrace of the Masseria Torre Maizza, remakes its physical borders and its objective dimension by setting up bands of lights along the perimeter of the frame. Starting from a physical data, the artist forces the borders of the real space in order to describe the infinite space of the light, from the terrace to the sky, from the darkness to the sunrise.
This lights which come from the Apulia's tradition, fr which they're decorative elelements and expression of religious devotion to the patrons, are enriched here by another function, being part of a lexicon made by luminous geometries which produce sensorial experiences.


Pierluigi Calignano births on 1971 in Gallipoli (Lecce), lives and works in Gallipoli and Milan.
The interventions of Calignano, between the sculpture and the installation, are the outcomes of the dialogue with the surrounded space and are accomplished when they act in that specific context, through forms and images which are essential and unreal, produced using advanced constructive processes. The materials he uses are common and recognizable objects, useful to create new and complex realities, in order to tell the objective one with the strenght of the irony and the visionary.

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