8Osqm of silence. Domenico Fazzari

The exhibition organized by the City of Milan, Department of Culture – Studio Museo Francesco Messina, and wanted by the director of the museum Maria Fratelli, with the support of the Scenography Laboratory of the Teatro alla Scala, offers a reflection on the sense of places and time centered on the theme of the ruins of two churches in northern and southern Italy, one in Milan and one in Aspromonte.
The former Church of San Sisto, today the headquarters of the Studio Museo Francesco Messina, whose apse was destroyed in the bombing of World War II, hosts a scenic painting of 80 square meters of Domenico Fazzari portraying the apse of the Church of San Salvatore in Africo, in Aspromonte, the only significant architecture survived after the flood of 1951, abandoned since then.
The enormous scenery creates a dialogue between the two sites, structurally similar, that share a history of destruction, and invites to seek their past identity and memory, making them revive in one another.