Como, four children under a monument
There are four children under the monument ideally Life Electric inaugurated yesterday in Como. The first is precisely Alessandro Volta, scientist benefactor of humanity, to whose memory the monument is dedicated. Once the child was late that according to witnesses began to talk only to seven years and showed an interest in the bright specks in the creek Cosia Camnago.
The second child she lived in Lodz, the Polish jew, and the father Nachman, overcome the horrors of war and persecution, loved distracted with the game of the electric battery: united two wires and the bulb lit up. That child was Daniel Libeskind.
The third child is the one that already this afternoon will accompany Mom and Dad to see the novelty of Como. That light sculpture and darting in flan breakwater. We see from Piazza Cavour and invites to go down there to admire it up close. Imagine this child unaware of the controversy that accompanied its development. Today the contrasts and discussions are diluted in the calm sway of the lake and mingle in the play of light and reflections of the monument. Without these bumps as adults, the child will alternate on reflective surfaces and perhaps amused laugh. His laughter will bury the past criticism.
The fourth child born to him in twenty years and the monument to Volta will always be there, will be part of the city that will begin to know and which will grow maybe dreaming tomorrow to create one with his hands. Who knows what technological objects will walk in and with what smartphone or device yet invented will store that image to keep it or share it with friends. Electric Life is dedicated especially to him, this child will be.
This was well said Daniel Libeskind indicating that his work is intended as a gift to the Como of the future.
We are all of us in that child. We with all projects, desires, expectations of the time we do not know. Since yesterday our city sees a piece of his future. “Cities – wrote Lev and Daniel Libeskind Sunday on” The Order “- much more than the nations, are becoming the places where to look in advance how it will be our future.”
The monument Libeskind is many things. The desire for the future of a city that thrives on beauty.
The ability and industriousness of people who gathered in the Friends of Como have shown love for the place where you live is primarily expressed with generosity: the sculpture is a gift to their community.
The determination and will power that animate those who fight for a cause they believe in strongly. Today it looks like a game, and the feast is better not to bring up and reproach. But how they felt those regalavano the city a work of art of immense value to behold treated like any commercial company: you have to pay the VAT, yes, although it’s a gift? Or the double conference service. And time lost. And the cards and paperwork that never end?
Fortunately, they went ahead and today Como boasts a unique title: did better than any other Italian cities, including Milan, because it is the only one in the year of Expo it creates a work that remains. Next to beautiful monuments such as the Fascist, the Cathedral, the War Memorial, the Volta Temple, there is now a dedicated electric Life Time.
Libeskind wrote that he likes to think that the discharge of energy of the monument represents the spirit of Como as he got to know and appreciate. We hope so. Como needed this jolt. Sign of life and beauty. He needed to Como today and for the children of tomorrow to which today gives a piece of the future.
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