Life Electric battery. It creates an idealistic third pole, located between the Faro Voltiano and the Tempio Voltiano, both attributed to the battery inventor, Alessandro Volta. The sculpture is designed to suggest connections among three of the five natural elements: light, wind and water. Libeskind's artwork aims to create geometries that connects the sky, lake and mountains, elements that typify the Lake Como landscape; the interaction between these three elements produces a monumental geometric power, as a metaphor for Volta’s electric power. The structure is made of calendared steel, coated by 316,6 mm thick steel panels. The illumination consists of a led
Alessandro Bruschetti Alessandro Bruschetti Alessandro Bruschetti (1910 – 2 January 1980) was an Italian Futurist artist. The second most important Futurist painter from Umbria. Bruschetti was born in 1910 in Perugia which is where he studied art. He was influenced by a meeting with the futurist artist Gerardo Dottori. He is considered the second most important Futurist painter from Umbria after Dottori. In 1931 he moved to Rome to train as a teacher. Whilst he was there, one of his paintings, "Dynamism of horses", was lauded by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti who was the founder of futurism. With Marinetti's approval he joined the