The third episode of the Pesaro 2024 Italian Capital of Culture project “From sculptures in the city to the art of communities” curated by Marcello Smarrelli, which involves the 12 neighborhoods and the Town Hall of Monteciccardo, developing the relationship between the arts and public space as the thematic fulcrum. The protagonist this time will be the Quartiere 2 Cinque Torri-Santa Veneranda which reveals to the city “Arco, Archè, Archetipo”, the intervention by Friedrich Andreoni, curated by Caterina Angelucci, who through a real itinerary presents three installations: “Tracce mnemonic”, “Mnemonic traces I and II”, “Archè”. Dialoguing with the popular, historical-artistic and landscape tradition of the area, these are conceived as activators of the memory of the District. Without altering the connotations, the artist reveals and reveals its preciousness through a process of sublimation aimed at the ‘re-discovery’ of a place already known and now filtered from a new point of view. The choice of the title of the project is a poetic license by the artist, who chooses to decline Arco, Archè and Archetipo on the basis of an assonance.
Today’s appointment is at the Lavatoio di Santa Veneranda (Strada di Fonte Maiano 1) with the artist Friedrich Andreoni, Caterina Angelucci curator of the project, and Giordano Tamanti president of the Quartiere Cinque Torri-Santa Veneranda.
“Mnemonic traces” is a sound installation located inside the wash house. Immersed in water, the speakers play the melody of Gioachino Rossini’s ‘Petit messe solennelle’, composed five years before his death. The work was the last of the composer from Pesaro and is considered his spiritual testament. With “Mnemonic Traces” Andreoni fits into the landscape and existing architecture, reflecting on the original value of the washhouse, whose source was known since the 3rd-2nd centuries BC for its therapeutic properties. With Mnemonic Traces I and II, two flags are installed at the entrance of Santa Veneranda: the spectrogram of the sound sample that reproduces the Petit messe solennelle is printed on the cloth. Connected to Mnemonic Traces, the work uses the flag as an identity symbol, the sound is sublimated in color and shape, becoming an abstract image.
The itinerary concludes with “Archè”, an iron profile sculpture composed of five pointed arches, six meters high, installed in the hills between Santa Veneranda and Cinque Torri, immersed in the natural element. Starting from the etymology of the Greek word archè (origin), Andreoni is inspired by the Boscovich Anemoscope, a disk of Lunense marble from the 2nd century AD preserved in the Oliveriano Museum of Pesaro: broken into two pieces, on the upper face it presents the planisphere, while on the that of the thickness the Greek names, transliterated into Latin, of twelve winds. Archè for Andreoni is a circular dance, a repeated motion that always begins and ends in the same point, so much so that its origin is confused.
