There are places you don’t expect to move you. Peccioli is one of them. A hilltop village in the province of Pisa, just over four thousand inhabitants, the kind of place you might pass through without stopping. Yet, if you arrive there at dawn on a May morning, you find a group of people sitting on the grass watching a ten-meter-tall sculpture that slowly opens with the morning light. That sculpture is called Breath, and it was created by Emiliano Ponzi and Dario Spinelli.

“Peccioli has built a common thread within diversity” — says Cristiano Seganfreddo, director of Flash Art and curator of Breath — “populating year after year, with great consistency, this unique territorial example. This is not a two- or three-year project. It is a twenty-five-year project. For twenty-five years, this municipality has changed its face through the transformation of the landfill and has used contemporary art as a tool for the evolution of the territory.“

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