Edoardo Dionea Cicconi's Monolith at Villa dell'Ombrellino

Edoardo Dionea Cicconi (Rome, 1985) presents Monolith, a site-specific installation at Villa dell'Ombrellino in Florence, curated by Alice Zucca and the Roman gallery Operativa. The villa, once home to Galileo Galilei (1617–1631) and later Ugo Foscolo, now hosts Cicconi's compositions within stratified glass prisms, where metal points form constellations at multiple depths. The work draws on Fibonacci sequences, the golden ratio, and fractals to order reality into pure elements. A vortex of taxidermied butterflies from Italy, Switzerland, France, and Brazil spirals in three dimensions, emphasizing fragility with a transparent butterfly at the center. The installation includes a sound component composed by Cicconi, whose resonance varies with the room's materials and dimensions. He also uses chemical emulsion on white canvases to capture shadows cast by the metal points under directed light. The exhibition runs at Villa dell'Ombrellino, Florence, 2018.