On this Sunday Margherita Hack, the lady of the starswould have accomplished one hundred years.
How can we forget his direct Tuscan speaking, his crystalline laugh, his quick and sharp eyes? How to celebrate his incredible existence at the service of science, dissemination and activism?
In Italy, initiatives are multiplying to remember the great astrophysics that disappeared in 2013: we are in the front row Florenceher home townAnd Trieste, where has long lived and where, first woman in Italy, he directed the Astronomical Observatory leading it to be among the most renowned in the world.
Milan dedicates a statue to Margherita Hack.
The first, on Italian public land, celebrates a female scientist. A record, another, for this brilliant astrophysics.
It will be installed in Largo Richini, in front of the State University, on Monday: it is entitled Physical look and comes from the creativity of Sissi (born Daniela Oliviero), a multifaceted Bolognese artist who has always been attentive to the representation of women.
Here is the model, held in the hand by Sissi herself in recent days.
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In its final version the statue will be 2.70 meters highi: forged in the Carli artistic foundry, it represents Margherita Hack emerging from a vortex (the galaxy she has always studied with enthusiasm) and without a pedestal, as if to remind us of the practical spirit of the scientist.
Sissi took up the image of the Hack that mimics, as children do, the gesture of binoculars: it reminds us – explained the artist – that the hand is the most immediate, simple and useful tool we have at our disposal. And that the right disposition, like children’s curiosity, is enough to discover the world around us. In recent months Sissi has been very generous and has chosen to document the creative and production process of such a special statue on Instagram:
In the week when Milan was invaded by events for the Design Week the work was packaged and slowly transported to where on Monday – in front of the mayor Beppe Sala, Guido Borsani, president of the Deloitte Foundation and Fabio Pompei CEO of Deloitte Italia – it is destined to remain, to accompany the students of ride.
How would Margherita Hack take this monumental celebration? We don’t know, probably with a joke of her.
A few considerations for us though we can do it.
The first: the project A sculpture for Margherita Hack, promoted in the form of an artistic competition in recent months by the Deloitte Foundation and created in collaboration with Casa degli Artisti, with the support of the Municipality of Milan, was aimed only at female artists. A counter-current choice if – data in hand – over 90 percent of the statues made in our country come from male hands. So good Sissi to have won the victory, and also good the other artists who accepted the challenge (here are the names, some well-known in the art world: Chiara Camoni, Giulia Cenci, Zhanna Kadyrova, Paola Margherita, Marzia Migliora, Liliana Moro and Silvia Vendramel).
Second consideration: the first public statue of a female scientist in our country, in imposing bronze (and onerous: no official declaration on the costs incurred, but they were not negligible) is realized thanks to private patronage. Symbols also “cost”, and how.
Finally, look carefully at the statue in the image that we propose below.
Margherita Hack is definitely recognizablewith his messy hair, his build, his style, the wrinkles on his face. It is not a holy card: it is the statue of a great scientist in its normality.
(From Monday at 11, you will be able to see the effect of the statue directly in front of the Statale and let’s see if it will become a selfie-point …)
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Source: Vanity Fair
