Just a couple of kilometers: this is the voyage of the Globe of Banca Galileo after it left the artists’ workshop to reach the headquarters of the bank on Corso Venezia. Here, in the entrance court, the globe welcomed clients and investors who could enjoy a preview of the work of the artist Antonio Mele, selected to interpret the world to come, in the context of the project Weplanet on environmental sustainability.
The Globe made of recycled plastic is a large blue sphere with very white continents: this is how Antonio Mele, professor of painting and set design at the Brera art high school, represents the catastrophic scenario of climate change and the threat of the melting of glaciers: “I have redesigned the geography of planet Earth – he explains – treating the land areas like the surface of the moon, while inside the globe I have placed a telescope at whose ends we can see one of the drawings made by Galileo Galilei when he began to observe the Moon.”