Italian faces

1861-2011

Three tri-color flags representing the three anniversaries of the 1911, 1961 and 2011, in connection

located between the generations, form the logo is to be held in 2011. The

symbolic of the celebrations to see a message of national unity and identity and

demonstrates the commitment to enhance the national territory as an expression of reality and peculiarities

of all the regions that compose it.

According to roman mythology, the Hill of the Gianicolo was the place of the city of the God Giano, the two-faced, strong and brave God that reigned, second the roman religion, on all the places of passage.

Giano that derives from the Latin term “ianus”, that means “door”, watched who exited and who entered without a movement immovable, thanks to the strange conformation of his head, double.

Since the foundation the Gianicolo has been considered the door, the exit of the city, the way of escape from the besieged city.

After 1849 when Garibaldi and its soldiers succeeded to win with heroism and courage on the French army, giving back Rome to the Papal state, the entire Gianicolo became one memorial of the Risorgimento. Around to the great horse statue of the national hero it were placed numerous statues of soldiers. Immovable and impassible faces in the tree-lined avenues.

Historical faces that observe us, modern faces marked by the signs of the time, by spots of color, by the shadows of the smog and mosses. Faces that observe who pass, who arrives and who part.

Faces that I have coupled, rendering them silent beings two-faced, like the God Giano.