Today we did Spoleto and Trevi. Very different towns again. Each one has been amazing and different. Spoleto was rundown and under major construction with many buildings sporting a crane and construction taping around to keep the public out. Shops were few and ecclectic with a couple of piazzas that provided food and one magnificent square with a huge church in it and the theatre. A convent was nearby located next door to the contemporary modern art gallery where i got to wander around for a couple of hours. Lovely stuff. Stephen Calder pieces were in one of 15 rooms that spanned three stories of a maginificent building with marble staircases and stone floors. Room 2 had some wonderful drawing of Henry Moore and Advid Smith and small sculptures of Lyn Chadwick.
I discovered some fabulous italian abstract artists of the 50s and 60s taking down some names to google and find out about. These include Accardi, Dorazio, Morlotti, Arnaldo, Burri was my favourite with one particular piece that got my attention - a book with one of the pages showing burnt out holes made across the page - about 4 or 5 of different sizes and shapes that are edged with varying degrees of burnt brown and then delicate torn gauze is behind some of the shapes. Very nice.
Trevi was narrow laneways, hardly any cars and one laneway running into another with wonderful little corners of wooden doors, window shutters and plants in plant pots along staircases. It had two piazzas - one more modern than the other which had rundown buildings surrounding it with wonderful old walls, windows and doors in disrepair.
Dinner was the best pizzas and ice cream ever.
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