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Robert Wilson – Mother au Castello Sforzesco

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6 mai , 2025

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Robert Wilson. Mother - Museo della Pietà Rondanini - Catello — Robert Wilson. Mère - Musée Rondanini Pietà Château des Sforza - Salone del Mobile.Milan 2025 - Ph. Lucie Jansch

“When I first saw Michelangelo’s unfinished Pietà, I sat there looking at it for over an hour. It was extraordinary just to have it in front of me. It had an enormous power, a kind of mystery. It was something I could have looked at for a long time. Being unfinished, it was like looking through an open door, a space that gives time to think and time to dream.” Robert Wilson

Michelangelo Buonarroti’s “Pietà Rondanini” (on which he worked from 1522 until six days before his death) together with Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Last Supper”, the “Sforza Castle” and the Duomo are the icons of Milan.

It is no coincidence that the last Pietà is preserved in the Castle in the wing of the Ancient Spanish Hospital, a place where suffering and pain have permeated the environment for centuries.

It is visible until May 18th in a particular guise: Robert Wilson has “illuminated” it by underlining the “unfinished” forms, extracting the latent image present in the marble as Michelangelo had conceived the sculpture by removing only the superfluous material so as to convey the purely spiritual idea of pain and compassion.

The “Stata Mater” for soprano, tenor and contralto interspersed with violin, viola and cello, which Arvo Part composed based on the text written in the 12th century, hovers around it. The realization of this intervention was made possible by the Salone del Mobile for the year of Euroluce. Piero Biasion – pierobiasion@me.com

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