Mario Velocci's Sonic Sculptures Fill Milan's Basilica di San Celso

The Basilica di San Celso, a 10th-century Romanesque-Lombard church in Milan, hosts "Mario Velocci Scultore," a solo exhibition by artist Mario Velocci (born 1949 in Monte San Giovanni Campano). The show transforms the 200-square-meter space into an immersive environment where Velocci's iron and steel sculptures evoke rural landscapes, vineyards, and undulating terrain. Large sound installations invite visitors to touch, move, and listen to the works, centering on space, line, and melody. The exhibition is organized by the Fondazione Mastrantoni, founded in 2022, in collaboration with Antica Tenuta Palombo. It coincides with the opening of La Collina Sonora, a permanent sculpture park on seven hectares of vineyards and hills in the Valle di Comino, Lazio, where Velocci's works interact with wind, vines, and light. Pier Paolo Mastrantoni, president of the foundation, describes the project as an invitation to discover the artist's unique practice and the entire territory. Velocci, an artist-farmer, uses lines traced on metal to echo the shapes of fields, plants, and vineyards, while wind animates the sculptures, making them "sing."