Recycle with me

COSMAVE

01 May, 2014

A site-specific project in Pietrasanta, Italy to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Cosmave
consortium has been turned into a vast sustainability festival and to - REUSE OF THE
WASTE/LEFTOVERS OF PRODUCTION OF 54 marble COMPANIES “

Projects are based on the principle that people must be informed and prodded into taking action to help and support the environment and the socially needy”. So, I devised a participated initiative and set up a permanent installation for the Piazza del Duomo in Pietrasanta. This work has been shaped from what is known as “marmettola” – marble dust
from the local marble quarries.
With the addition of resins, this waste product turns into a kind of a modelling clay for 24
hours, open to all sorts of creative use..
So, Luca Gnizio is not only proposing a social project for the community, he is also offering a
new way of using something that had previously been considered worthless, by turning it into
something entertaining and real. An eco-sustainable idea that is intimately tied to the
territory and to its traditions.