COMET by Anna Galtarossa

A new site-specific installation at Palazzo Maffei in Verona, a dialogue between art and architecture born from the dreamlike poetics of Anna Galtarossa, accompanied by the “sonic echoes” composed by Oscar-winner Nicolas Becker.

A Comet, with a 13-meter-long tail, slowly rotates in a sequence of organic, industrial, and colorful materials, blending irony, fantastical invention, and ecological reflection. Time seems suspended as the Comet dances, carrying with it the sound of the universe and, within its tail, familiar objects reprogrammed as new matter for the world that will come after our own.

Its slow movement, teetering between existence and destruction—where will it go, and how will we respond? The Veronese artist shapes space, invents, creates, plays, and alters it, weaving stories and memories between the real world and dream.

“The sparkling, colorful journey proposed by Comet,” writes Andrea Lissoni, “is that of a monument of the present: it does not celebrate heroism or revolutions already achieved, but opens up to hypotheses, fantasies, and ancestral games whose rules we do not yet know.”