CAPPELLA GENTILIZIA

…And yet we’re just at the beginning… is the title that, quoting the poet Edmond Jabes’ words, the artist gives the Cappella Patrizia realized for the Sandretto family in the cemetery of Piverone. The exterior is a parallelepiped in concrete. The interior is inspired by some flaws of the concrete in the famous students halls of residence made in Urbino by the architect Giancarlo De Carlo. In them, the iron of the frameworks appears under a too thin layer of concrete, in Pirri’s work an iron structure devised for the occasion overlaps the existing one, and is then covered with a slight layer of mortar enriched with inerts containing glass dust. Everything is sandblated, till the iron framework partly appears, like bare nerves outlining the entire space. Everything is reflected on a floor of shattered mirrors, multiplying the perception of the space and of the iron fragments appearing on the surface and determining a spatial sketch of hetchings under which, in transparency, the continuity of the global design can be perceived. A funeral urn in the form of a dodecahedron is put at a certain point of the space, at a certain angle, deriving from calculations of the sun inclination (at a given date and a given time), and made of the same substance as the floor.