Saturday, October 19, 2013

UNIVERSITY CHAPEL OF St. THOMAS AQUINAS

CAPPELLA UNIVERSITARIA DI S. TOMMASO D'AQUINO
2002 Vittorio De Feo (1928/2002)
Mixture of Soviet constructivism and brightness a la Bernini
The nave is rotated by 30 degrees to the building and the different angles of the axis of the building and of the nave are smoothed by a balcony that wraps almost all the nave and presbytery
"Italian architect and essayist. He was interested in the Soviet Constructivism (...) and experimented in compositions with simple solids and their expressive potentialities. (...) His research has been mitigated over time landing at a resolute reduction of architecture to its constituent elements and to the clarity of its primary geometric forms. (...) His achievements are testimony to the different seasons the Italian architecture went through" (Enciclopedia Treccani)
ATRIUM
In the niche on the right "Bronze crucifix" by Roberto Scardella (1957)
"Scardella iconized the Crucifix in the fleeting moment of the 'Consummatum est' - It has been consumed - where the redemption is accomplished by Christ. 'Consummatum est' is a symbolic title to name a bronze manneristic and modern at the same time, expressing spiritual charm, sacral quotes, formal originality. The icon of the master is not a sign of failing consummation, but of absolute completion, so that the attraction is not toward the historical event, but toward the meta-historical one" (Carlo Chenis)

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