Giovanni Termini's 'Da quale pulpito' at Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia

Giovanni Termini (born 1972, Assoro) presents a comprehensive survey of his twenty-year career at Palazzo Fabroni in Pistoia, titled 'Da quale pulpito' and curated by Marco Bazzini, running until November 28. The exhibition unfolds across two floors: on the first, Termini's works engage with the museum's permanent collection, including 'Armatura' (2013), a construction-site-like installation originally shown at the Pescheria di Pesaro, and 'L'equilibrio dell'incongruo' (2018), a curved brick slab on zinc trestles placed in the room dedicated to Fernando Melani. 'Dialogo costruttivo' (2017) references Termini's long collaboration with Eliseo Mattiacci, while 'Ipotesi' (2018) reinterprets Alighiero Boetti's 'Zig Zag' (1967). On the second floor, nine works include the large-scale installation 'Tempo instabile con probabili schiarite' (2018), first shown at Galleria ME Vannucci, Pistoia, and 'Circoscritta' (2016), inspired by Pistoia's nurseries, featuring a cypress in a cement pot balanced on wooden beams. The exhibition concludes with the video 'Accade in un minuto' (2017), showing Termini jumping on a wooden beam until it breaks, suspended by a worker's harness. The accompanying catalog is published by Ori. Termini describes the construction site as a metaphor for life, a source of inspiration for his work, which Andrea Bruciati in 2010 called 'an assembly of expanding forms and their relationships.'