The exhibition "Vere Dignae” vestments and objects for the modern liturgy, opened Saturday, November 6, at the Diocesan Museum in Brescia.

Forma Fluens for the furnishings, along with Sirio Group for the vestments, presents the results of its  research about design for the liturgy, which have ventured the great Italian architects and designers such as Mario Botta, Angelo Mangiarotti, but whose history is to be written.

During the opening event, a significant intervention of Mgr. Giancarlo Santi, President of AMEI (Italian Ecclesiastical Museums Association), has highlighted the importance of dialogue between representatives of the Catholic Church (priests, parish and religious communities) and designers and artists. This comparison is the basis of the trial, understood as innovation, but once encoded in language appropriate to the celebration, the designer should be able to model objects and clothes that fit harmoniously within and meaningful for the ritual action.

Mgr. Santi pertains to the creation of the two Italian atelier just this last phase: they go beyond the  prototypes, offering creations valid and appropriate to the liturgical celebrations.

Chalices, monstrance, chandeliers, carpets, clothes with essential shapes but handmade, made of precious materials without excluding metals or fabrics more "technical", such as titanium, steel and lurex, will be exhibited at the Diocesan Museum Brescia until December 2, 2010.

 

Diocesan Museum of Brescia

Via Gasparo da Salò 13

Mon - Sun 10:00 to 12:00 / 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Closed on Wednesday

 

www.veredignae.com

www.diocesi.brescia.it/museodiocesano

FORMA FLUENS realized the chalice and paten used in numerous liturgical celebrations of the forthcoming exposition of the Holy Shroud, which will take place from April 10 to May 23, 2010 (www.sindone.org).

The chalice and paten were designed by architects from Turin diaper Domenico and Maria Cristina Milanese (http://ec2.it/ondesignstudio) for the Diocese of Turin in the person of Don Paolo Tomatis, with the advice and Luke Gazzoni Morena Baldacci.

The essential form of furniture designed for the event is specific to the liturgical function (a big celebration) and aesthetic symbolism, the sign of "noble simplicity". The simplicity of the forms is the precious materials (silver and golden shares) and the sensitivity of symbolic reference: correspondence between Christ's body preserved in the Shroud and the sacrament of Christ's blood kept in the eucharistic cup. This correspondence is suggested by the working surface - a sort of veil of silver, whose texture refers to the plot of the Shroud cloth - below which is glimpsed, at times, a surface gold and precious: the mystery of divinity, kept from humanity, it is the quiet reference to the mystery of Christ, whose imprint is guarded by the signs of the mysterious Shroud cloth.