In Monfalcone an exhibition on the genius of Tranquillo Marangoni

WATCH THE VIDEO SERVICE. The furnishings, preparatory cartoons and wooden panels made for Italian ocean liners are at the centre of a new exhibition set up in Monfalcone on the ingenuity of Tranquillo Marangoni, the craftsman from Pozzuoli who from 1949 to 1962 was employed as a naval decorator in the city of shipyards.

After the recent one set up in Pozzuolo del Friuli, the Museo della Cantieristica is opening its doors to introduce the public to the most famous Italian and European xylographer of the second half of the 20th century. It was during the years spent in the Monfalcone shipyards that Marangoni valorized his activity as a xylographer, which he began in 1942 by building the necessary tools himself, now housed inside the MuCa.

«In his studio in the Panzano district, where he lived with his family and where I was also born and raised, Marangoni engraved the first grooves in the matrices of the woodcuts that told the story of the industriousness and life of the shipyard», recalled Massimiliano Marangoni, the artist's nephew, co-curator of the exhibition together with the Aghe di Poç association.

The exhibition is entitled “The furrow of Tranquillo Marangoni in the wake of the great ships” and will remain open to the public until September 1st (from Friday to Monday, from 10 am to 7 pm).

Numerous institutional representatives took part in the ribbon cutting, including the mayor of Monfalcone, Luca Fasan, and the mayor of Pozzuolo del Friuli, Gabriele Bressan. "Promoting the figure of Tranquillo Marangoni means promoting an important piece of our cultural identity," Fasan explained. "Through his works, Marangoni was able to sensitively and masterfully tell a fundamental part of our city's history."