Alberto GaruttiTemporali

A large illuminated sign on the museum roof whose lights brighten whenever lightning strikes anywhere in Italy.

Garutti designed Temporali for the roof of the museum, along the façade facing Via Masaccio. The work is a big luminous text connected to lightning detection: its lights grow stronger each time a bolt hits Italian territory during a storm.

The artist dedicated it to passers-by who look up at the sky, and saw it as a work completed in its encounter with viewers, linking art to the elemental energy of nature.

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