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Sculpture by Valeria Manfredda, a student of Professor Roberto Priod, made with various materials, water, wood, stainless steel, sound devices, motion sensors.

The title wants to emphasize the trauma that followed the closure of the water channels in Milan but also the indissoluble and innate, almost magnetic link between man and water, a reciprocal influence that slowly led to a detachment but which has never been completely eliminated and the ability of one to condition the other.

The city of Milan, in the past, was almost entirely crossed by canals and watercourses. It was this element of the urban environment, of its rhythms and habits. While today the Milanese have lost the memory of tha...

2017
Metal/interactive opera
160.0 x 80.0cm
Images and text © the artist, 2017

Where you'll find this

Museo San Donato (MPSArt)
Permanent collection