2022
Pietro Ruffo: Never too young to make a difference
The first artist involved is Pietro Ruffo, who has created Never Too Young to Make a Difference specifically for the occasion.
Visitors are welcomed into the courtyard of Palazzo Chigi Zondadari by a large hand-painted ceramic amphora and video projections that interact with the architectural forms.
The installation expresses the sentiment of the younger generations who have expressed their desire for a radical change in their relationship with our planet all over the world. It also confronts the collective memory of the city of Siena, recalling the symbols of the 17 contrade of the Palio. The exhibition route continues inside the palace, in whose rooms flows of ancient and contemporary men are represented in Ruffo's works: peoples move from one continent to another on the curved surfaces of vases and globes, in a perpetual movement that follows the migration of birds and the fixity of constellations. The project invites to the rediscovery of that cultural heritage that remains in the memory of a community, defines the identity of places and becomes the spark of a shared change.
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Pietro Ruffo, Never Too Young to Make a Difference (detail), 2020, third-fire painting on ceramic. Credits: Ottavio Celestino.
Pietro Ruffo, Never Too Young to Make a Difference (detail), 2020, third-fire painting on ceramic. Credits: Ottavio Celestino.
Pietro Ruffo, Never Too Young to Make a Difference (detail), 2020, third-fire painting on ceramic. Credits: Ottavio Celestino.
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Artista
Pietro Ruffo (Roma, 1978)
The investigation of the human condition is an integral part of his path that stems from historical, philosophical and social considerations, developing through a profound conceptual dimension of art that derives from his training as an architect. For Ruffo, drawing and carving are instruments of a research that analyses ancient and contemporary dynamics, giving life to installations that take on environmental dimensions.A graduate in Architecture from the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, he won the Cairo Prize in 2009 and the New York Prize in 2010, and was the holder of a research scholarship at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University.In recent years, he has exhibited at important international museums and institutions including: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, 2021; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de la Universidad de São Paulo, Brazil, 2021; Zhejiang Art Museum (ZAM), Hangzhou City, China, 2020; IA&A AT HILLYER, Washington DC, USA, 2019; Museo Nazionale del Bardo, Tunis, Tunisia, 2018; Indian Museum, Calcutta, India, 2018; MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, 2015; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, 2014. He has received several important public commissions, which have led him to expand his work into an urban dimension.
