After the showcases in Algiers and Washington, inaugurated on December 5 at the International Baroque Museum in Puebla, Mexico – and open until February 2024 – was “Marmo. Carving the Future”, a project sponsored and organized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) in collaboration with CONFINDUSTRIA MARMOMACCHINE, ITA Italian Trade Agency and the creative direction of Magister Art.
The exhibit develops through an immersive audio experience that accompanies visitors through a journey of great perceptive and emotional impact, creating a sort of ideal dialogue between the contemporaneity of the stone industry and the past epochs in which it was historically and artistically rooted like the Roman period, the Renaissance, the Baroque and the Neoclassical.
In fact, through a digital and multimedia itinerary one can discovery – alongside modern stone processing technologies – how this evolution is the child of masters such as Michelangelo, Bernini and Canova, who carved marble to create iconic sculptures like Cupid and Psyche, Moses or Apollo and Daphne.
As stated, the exhibit was first shown in May 2023 in Algiers, then in Washington DC and after Puebla will continue its foreign tour.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony were the general director of Museos Puebla, Anel Nochebuena and the director of the Italian Institute of Culture, Gianni Vinciguerra. Also attending the event were Jorge Ermilo Barrera Novelo, Economy Minister of the State of Puebla, Manuel Villarruel Vasquez, director of the INAH center of Puebla and deputy Azucena Rosas Tapia.
