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"Monumenta" Paintings series
What is a monument?
The term “monument” comes from the Latin monere and indicates a “sign that was placed and that remains in the memory of a person or of an event”.
A monument represents the architectural exposition of a message, an ideology, or of a thought. Its physical matter is infused with a meaning related to a certain time or place. A monument is erected to celebrate a moment and to last forever, which is an intrinsic contradiction in terms.
This contradiction also extends to the urban fabric to which the monument belongs. As Aldo Rossi writes, each …