Sissi with the project of "Sguardo fisico" the sculpture dedicated to Margherita Hack at Casa degli Artisti, Milan. Credits ImagoEconomica | Courtesy of Deloitte Foundation © Maggiore g.a.m.
Maggiore g.a.m. is glad to inform you that the Deloitte Foundation of Milan, in collaboration with Casa degli Artisti and with the support of the Municipality of Milan - Office of Art in Public Spaces, on Febraury 2022 announced that the competition "A Sculpture for Margherita Hack" to which seven Italian and international artists - Chiara Camoni, Giulia Cenci, Zhanna Kadyrova, Paola Margherita, Marzia Migliora, Liliana Moro, Sissi and Silvia Vendramel - adhered, has been won by Sissi, with the work entitled "Sguardo fisico".
The bronze sculpture will represent Margherita Hack - astrophysicist, academic, brilliant popularizer of science of the Twenty Century who died in 2013 - intent on observing the stars while emerging from a vortex depicting a galaxy.
The work of Sissi is the first sculpture on public ground in Italy dedicated to a woman scientist, it will be installed the next June 2022 in Milan in Largo Richini at the entrance of the University of Studies - La Statale.
