Summary:
- Fiumicino art collaboration brings Pietro Consagra’s Muro Bianco to Terminal 1 through Aeroporti di Roma’s partnership with the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art.
- Italian cultural heritage in airports enhances the passenger journey by integrating major artworks into high traffic terminal spaces.
- Airport passenger experience innovation continues with plans to exhibit additional Consagra works, expanding a multi year programme of art across Rome’s airport system.
Aeroporti di Roma – a Corporate Partner of the FTE Digital, Innovation & Startup Hub – is collaborating with the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (GNAMC) in Rome to enhance the passenger experience by bringing Italian art into Fiumicino Airport.
Following last year’s installation of Grande folla n.1 by Giò Pomodoro, Muro Bianco by Pietro Consagra (1920-2005) has been inaugurated in the Piazza of Terminal 1 at Fiumicino. Created in 1975 in painted iron, the work was donated by the artist to the GNAMC in 1988.
Located at the heart of one of the most iconic and frequented spaces at Fiumicino, which over the years has hosted the display of highly prestigious works such as Lorenzo Bernini’s Salvator Mundi and the 14th century stained-glass windows attributed to Giotto, owned by the Ministry of the Interior’s Fund for Places of Worship, the sculpture by Consagra enters into dialogue with the daily flow of travellers from all over the world, transforming a place of passage into a meeting point between intercontinental mobility and Italian cultural heritage. Comprising four elements placed side by side, the work explores the relationship between surface and space and the possibility for sculpture to inhabit architecture without imposing itself upon it.
One of the leading figures in 20th century art and founder of the ‘Forma 1’ group in 1947, Pietro Consagra revolutionised traditional sculpture, creating two-dimensional works designed to be traversed by the gaze and engage in dialogue with the public. The presence of Muro Bianco at Fiumicino therefore places one of the masters of Italian abstraction within a contemporary and international setting, accessible to thousands of people every day.
“With Pietro Consagra’s Muro Bianco, we continue a journey that in recent years has brought works by major figures of Italian art to Rome Fiumicino, from Bernini to Giotto, from Giò Pomodoro to Jago, gradually transforming the airport into a space where travel meets culture in a way that is increasingly accessible to all passengers,” said Vincenzo Nunziata, Chairman, Aeroporti di Roma. “Our collaboration with the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art allows us today to welcome, in the heart of Terminal 1, a work capable of offering passengers a glimpse of Italian cultural identity even before they reach their destination. This is the vision of an airport that we wish to continue building.”
The project will continue in the coming months with the exhibition in Terminal 3 of Bifrontale or Ferro Bifrontale arancione, another significant work by Pietro Consagra from 1977, confirming the shared commitment to building a widespread programme of showcasing Italian art within Rome’s airport system.
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