Ettore Spalletti: Salle des départs a Garches

Andrea Dall'Asta

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-1602/3242

Ettore Spalletti: Salle des départs in Garches

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Andrea Dall'Asta Galleria San Fedele in Milan

After a master degree in Architecture (Florence 1984), he entered in Society of Jesus in 1988. He accomplished his philosophical studies in Padova and his theological studies in Paris where he obtained his PhD in aesthetics after having spent one preparatory year at the Columbia University in New York.
He actually works at the St Fedele Gallery in Milan where he is director since 2002.
In 2004 he institutes San Fedele Award for young artists. Since 2007 he institutes the section for young artists in St Fedele Gallery. Since september 2008 he is Director of Lercaro Collection in Bologna. He is author of many essays and his attention is directed both to the relationship between art, liturgy and architecture, and to the critic of images as forming place for youth, as point of dialogue between faith and art and as promotion of justice.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/3242

Keywords:

Ettore Spalletti, Salle des déparats, morgue, hospital, death

Abstract

Ettore Spalletti re-invents in 1996 the morgue of Raymond Poincaré Hospital in Garches, just at Paris gates. It is a space without any religious symbol where corpses, already put in their coffins, can receive the last look of relatives and friends. This space is la Salle des Départs, that is the departures room, where each man – Muslim, Christian or non-believer - has to stay for the short transit between the world of life and the one of death, towards a new life. Ettore Spalletti wants to humanize a place that could help people to elaborate death, breathing peace and serenity. Starting from a completely anonymous space, thanks to the expressiveness of azure color, the same of the cloak of the Vergin who welcomes her sons, the artist makes us dip in a space which presents itself as the incarnation of purity, becoming like a symbol of the promise of transcendence and absolute.

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Published

2012-06-30

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Dall’Asta, A. (2012). Ettore Spalletti: Salle des départs in Garches. IN_BO. Ricerche E Progetti Per Il Territorio, La Città E l’architettura, 3(4), 5–16. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/3242

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Vol. 3 No. 4 (2012): CONTEMPORARY EVOLUTIONS IN FUNERARY ARCHITECTURE

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Architecture and projects

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