Composing Pain. The Monument to the Venetian Partisan Woman by Carlo Scarpa

Abstract

It was 1968 when Carlo Scarpa was commissioned for the basement project at the monument to the “Partigiana Veneta” by the artist Augusto Murer (Falcade 1922 - Padova 1985). Situated on the shore of the gardens of Venice, the work represents a surpassing of the concept of monument as a memory. Scarpa’s work can be described as “experimenting” on the next masterpiece of the Brion tomb where the concept of conjugal love and memory carries unstoppable spatiality. The work is a ritual that is renewed several times a day and in its renewal and showing in an ever-changing way creates an ever-new.

Keywords

• Dolore
• Memoria
• Monumento
• Scarpa
• Partigiana