Suspending Modernity by Jones Kay Bea

Author:Jones, Kay Bea
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Published: 2014-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

6.5 Controversial support structures for paintings using architectural fragments

This first collaboration with Marcenaro was inevitably risky, and Albini’s use of architectural fragments as base weights for the painting stands that mimic easel paintings drew criticism from the museum community. Albini designed another installation device to support the museum’s most prized object in the Palazzo Bianco collection. Sculptural fragments from the tomb of Margherita di Brabante (1313), Giovanni Pisano’s medieval masterpiece, were grouped on a pivot that gave viewers control of its height and orientation by hand. The ensemble was later relocated without the mobile armature to the Sant’Agostino Museum, also designed by Studio Albini. The Pisano complex and its custom pedestal is echoed by the shaft support designed for the bust of Eleanor of Aragon in Scarpa’s Abatellis Museum that similarly allowed the detached female bust to appear to float.19

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