E-Terni

It is a permanent installation which physically completes a triptych of work illustrating the city of Terni to whomever, arriving along the motorway junction, passes along the avenues that lead into the centre.

E-Terni is ideally and physically in the centre between Uprium (o Hyperion) by Agapito Miniucchi and the Lance of Light (the obelisk), by Arnaldo Pomodoro. The sculpture, made of iron, bronze and steel was born from the artistic vein of Giuseppe Maraniello, who arrived in Terni immediately after having received the "Guglielmo Marconi " award for painting, sculpture and electronic art promoted by the University of Bologna.

A work of art consisting of a 24-metre high flagpole , made of corten steel and bronze, which rests on a rectangular-shaped, ten-metre long steel slab. The slab is anchored to the ground on only one of its four sides and is detached from the ground assuming an oblique position and conveying a feeling of precariousness which provokes interest and also a fair number of questions from the observer.

Maraniello's work must be observed with a certain amount of attention in order to grasp certain peculiarities: a man diving into an amphora and a mask making a mockery hang from the flagpole. Other "enrichments" are not lacking, such as a stylised centaur fighting its own tail and a golden sphere.