Wednesday, April 16, 2014

MONUMENT-FOUNTAIN TO THE GODDESS ROMA

MONUMENTO-FONTANA ALLA DEA ROMA
2003 by the Polish Igor Mitoraj (1944)
Travertine block of 1,200 tonnes (1,322 tons)
Fragmented face of the Goddess Rome imagined as a source of water
"Perhaps the fracture alludes to the mystery of the ancient world that shows itself to us in fragments, allusions, evocations such as reflections of a disappeared Atlantis" (Antonio Paolucci)

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