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Domus India
|August 2016
After creating a pyramid in the Pompeii Amphitheatre, Francesco Venezia returns to the same archaeological site with a new intervention. Compositional skill and virtuoso craftsmanship mark the insertion of this new exhibition space in the north wing of the Palestra Grande portico: it is a true machine for exhibiting, creating a subtle interplay of memories and analogies between ancient and modern, between archaeology and museology.
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About one year after the construction of the pyramid in the Amphitheatre to house the casts “salvaged from death”, an opportunity arose to complete the design with a building wedged into the north wing of the portico of the neighbouring Palestra Grande (“large gymnasium”).
This story is from the August 2016 edition of Domus India.
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