With [sculpture trail], Luxembourg Art Week brings together a selection of works and installations presented in open air. Their placement traces a route through the city, inviting encounters with art along the streets, in everyday journeys and places.
[sculpture trail] benefits from the generous support of the City of Luxembourg.
With the support of MNAHA, the Embassy of Italy in Luxembourg, Fondation Cavour, Com.It.Es Luxembourg, Associazione Marchigiani in Lussemburgo, and Convivium.
Oliviero Fiorenzi
Segnavento (Weathervane), 2025
Coated carbon steel, 407 x 40 x 303 cm
Courtesy of the artist
Location
Nationalmusée um Fëschmaart
Marché-aux-Poissons, L-2345 Luxembourg
Segnavento (Wheatervane) (2025) is a sculptural project by Oliviero Fiorenzi developed during an artist residency in Torri del Benaco (Lake Garda, Italy), promoted by Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. The work emerges from a participatory process involving the local community, through which memories, childhood recollections, and visual symbols of Lake Garda were collected and translated into a shared iconography.
The installation takes the form of a contemporary (anti-)monument and kinetic wind marker shaped by the winds Ora and Pelér, making visible the cyclical rhythm of natural time. Three large wind vanes reassemble fragments of collective narratives, transforming individual recollections into a communal structure. Through workshops, participants translated childhood memories and personal recollections into drawings and symbols, later reworked by the artist into a unified visual language.
The sculpture operates as a device where memory, landscape and community intersect. Rooted in vernacular wind vanes, the project reactivates this typology as a contemporary tool for reading landscape and identity. Although developed within a specific territorial context, the project translates local narratives into a universal language of collective memory, highlighting Oliviero Fiorenzi’s participatory and research-based methodology.
Biography
Oliviero Fiorenzi (b.1992, Osimo) is a visual artist who lives and works in Milan. His research explores the interaction between wind, landscape, and community through kinetic devices and installations activated by the movement of air, understood as a symbol of connection and renewal. His practice, often collective and performative, places public participation and context at its core.
He has exhibited in institutional and independent spaces including the Italy Pavilion at Expo Osaka 2025 (Osaka, Japan), Fondazione Feltrinelli and Triennale Milano (Milan), Manifattura Tabacchi (Florence), Fondazione Pescheria – Centro Arti Visive (Pesaro), ExDogana (Rome), La Mole (Ancona), The Address (Brescia), and Sonnenstube (Lugano). He has also collaborated with Dynamo Camp and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and took part in Pesaro 2024 – Italian Capital of Culture.
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