marco poma - golden trunks- “Ciocchi d’oro – Omaggio ai castagni secolari”

http://www.barganews.com/2014/01/04/marco-poma-ciocchi-doro-omaggio-ai-castagni-secolari/

Once again Marco Poma puts some of his work in front of the audience and makes them think slightly deeper about objects and things around them which over time have slipped into the background. He brings them “front of stage” and into the spotlight. What could be even thought of as banal or mundane becomes fascinating, worth spending some extra time with and above all reasserts itself as part of our cultural baggage. It becomes ours.

His exhibition which opened this morning in Palazzo Pancrazi in Barga Vecchia is a perfect point in case.

Anybody leaving the Palazzo Pancrazi this morning could walk literally in any direction for just five minutes and find themselves in front of the object of Marco’s work – the chestnut trees which surround the city but after seeing “Ciocchi d’oro – Omaggio ai castagni secolari” they would be difficult to view those trees in precisely the same way as before.