Assembled Columns #2: Giorgio Facchini and the Dialogue with Spoleto

Assembled Columns #21990, painted iron, Permanent Collection, Galleria d'Arte Moderna "G. Carandente", Spoleto.

In July 2024, Assembled Columns #2 officially became part of the Permanent Collection of the Galleria d'Arte Moderna "G. Carandente" in Spoleto. The work, created by Giorgio Facchini in 1990, was donated by the artist to the Gallery as a sign of a deep and enduring relationship with the Umbrian city and its cultural history.

A gesture of continuity and belonging

The donation came at a symbolically powerful moment: July 2024, during the Festival dei Due Mondi, an event that in Spoleto has always represented a meeting point for languages, arts, and visions. In this context, Facchini's gesture takes on the value of an act of restitution and recognition towards a city with which the artist maintains a historical bond.

The Entrance to Palazzo Collicola

Giorgio Facchini, a longtime friend of Spoleto, crosses the threshold of Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, home to the Gallery. The imposing and layered eighteenth-century building becomes an integral part of the work's narrative: its solid, muscular architecture engages in direct dialogue with the painted iron sculpture, creating a visual and conceptual counterpoint.

Work and Place

A Silent Dialogue Colonne Assemblate #2 thus finds a home that is not only museum-like, but also symbolic. The work's presence within the Galleria Carandente strengthens the relationship between contemporary art, historical memory, and urban space, inscribing

Facchini's work within a narrative that connects the artist, the city, and its cultural institutions. With this donation, Spoleto welcomes into its permanent collection not just a sculpture, but also a tangible testimony to a bond built over time, based on presence, dialogue, and continuity.