Invece una foglia / Instead, a leaf
2010 
 
Prologue to the exhibition ‘Green Life. Building sustainable cities’, 2010;
homage to Italo Calvino, ‘Marcovaldo or The seasons in the city’.

Entering the exhibition, visitors go through a 120 m2 dark room, 9 screens, 3 image sequences, 306 pictures
 
The installation has been shown at
Triennale di Milano, 2010 - Città della Scienza, Napoli, 2010
 
concept: carlotta origoni
design: carlotta origoni, roberta cesani
agency: Origoni Steiner
client: Legambiente
 
photographs: Reuters - Laif - Contrasto
exhibition design: Origoni Steiner

 

This Marcovaldo possessed an eye ill-suited to city life:
billboards, traffic-lights, shop-windows, neon signs, posters,
no matter how carefully devised to catch the attention, never arrested his gaze
 
Instead, he would never miss a leaf yellowing on a branch,
a feather trapped by a roof-tile
 
The wind, coming to the city from far away, brings it unusual gifts,
noticed by only a few sensitive souls, such as hay-fever victims,
who sneeze at the pollen from flowers of other lands.
 
Italo Calvino,
‘Marcovaldo or The seasons in the city’, 1952-1963