Mi sono seduto nel mondo, mi sono guardato nel fondo (Mani-Pol-Aktion)

(I sat in the world, I looked at the bottom (Mani-Pol-Aktion))
Year 1985
  • A stepped pyramid lead up to the head-high entrance mearly using the whole width of the wall.
    Main entrance (active audience)
  • Figures standing in front of the building's head-high entrance.
    Main entrance (detail)
  • A small entrance on the side under small stairways which lead up to the roof.
    Side entrance (passive audience)
  • Figures under a net behind the head-high exit.
    Exit (detail)
  • A cuboid building with an open roof and a wraparound balcony. A stepped pyramid lead to the large entrance and exit on each front. On each side is a small entrance.
    Exit (left), Meeting rooms (middle), Entrance (right)
  • A grid stretches over the middle part of the open roof. Visitors on the wraparound balcony can look down into the room.
    Wraparound balcony (passive audience)
Model 310 x 125 x 63 cm
  • Floor and ceiling of a white room covered with black plastic foil. In the middel stands the model on the floor.
  • Axonometric view of the building with explanatory notes
Exhibition, 1985 / Sketch, 1984–85

Enormous ramps allow the viewer to look at the processes inside, at the written motto as well as a book-monument. Also the light attracting and guiding the human being, in addition mysteriously illuminating the monument, takes a central position. Grids, tube-like passages and mirrors, recurring elements of the inner, symbolize the route of the life path, its labyrinthine expanse and concrete narrowness.

Helmut Schneider (Ed.) et al.: Pino Poggi. Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich, 1986, p. 73