Lia Rumma Gallery is pleased to announce the restoration of Ettore Spalletti’s work Fontana, following the conservation project initiated in January 2024 at the request of the then President of the Court, Angelo Mariano Bozza, and Director Rosalba Natali. The restoration, made possible through the collaboration between the Municipality of Pescara, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ettore SpallettiFoundation, together with the fundamental contribution of numerous private entrepreneurs, has returned to the city an emblematic work distinguished by its evocative power — a shared public asset that transforms the urban space and belongs to everyone who looks upon it.
Originally inaugurated in 2004, the work takes the form of a 15 by 9 meter ellipse made of Absolute Black Zimbabwe granite. A veil of water flows across its surface, transforming it into an atmospheric mirror. It reflects the sky, the clouds, and the silhouette of the Palace of Justice: it embraces its surroundings. The blue source from which the water overflows — adding color to color — contains within itself all the lines of geometry: horizontal, vertical, oblique, and curved. Water becomes the thickness of color, sculpture within the sculpture.
Fontana reveals itself through an absolute yet ever-changing geometry; it acts as a filter between the rigor of a place that embodies the rules of civil coexistence and the community to which it belongs, between earth and sky. It carries within it a visual silence offered as a gift — a moment of metaphysical suspension within the city.