Archivio Remo Salvadori

"Fontana is a circular pool filled with water, where the white marble border displayed seventeen spoons, each sending a spurt of water towards the center. The spoon—which had already made an appearance in 1995 in relation to the project never produced for Barberino Val d’Elsa—is linked to the theme of nutrition, on which the artist focused particularly after the passing of his mother the previous year: 'The spoon is one of the first things with which we come into contact when we enter the world, one of the first things that makes us feel that we are here, on the earth. After my mother left us, I thought about all this at length, and the result was this work, in which the spoon no longer comes towards us, but goes into the whole.'"