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The moon in the well
In Pistoia the moon in the well really exists: it is a modern art work by the Florentine artist Gianni Ruffi. Walking around the streets of the city centre you will encounter the reproduction of an ancient well, perhaps of the XV century, in which a crescent moon seems to have fallen by chance. A sculpture, but also a metaphor, a game, the materialisation of an ancient popular saying.
It was a way to create a dialogue in the city between the most modern art and the ancient one: Pistoia, with Prato and Florence, is part of the SMAC (Metropolitan System for Contemporary Art), and for years has been organising exhibitions of great importance such as the Centro di Palazzo Fabroni Arti Visive contemporanee.
Therefore, Pistoia is one of the national centres dedicated to the circulation of what is experimented in art in our times. To liven city spaces, once the city centre was paved, the local administration thought of Ruffi, for his being a top representative of Italian contemporary art and his abundant stays in the city: born in Florence in 1938, self-taught, and formed in the climate of the artistic culture of the '50s through figurative/expressionist experiences.
The moon in the well, in piazza Giovanni XXXIII, maintains all the characteristics of its creative language: a synthetic, playful and ironic language. Ruffi, pop and popular artist in the true sense of the word, has created various open air installations and many personal exhibits in Pistoia, Florence, Rome, New York, Bologna, Basil, Milan, Munich, Naples, Prato.
October.2002
Municipality of Pistoia
La Luna nel Pozzo (In Italian)
Gianni Ruffi (In Italian)
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