ITALOFONIA – CORALE is an installation by Gianluca Lattuada that transforms the Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid into a living organism — open to the city and in constant dialogue with those who pass through it. Coinciding with the 25th Week of the Italian Language in the World, the building becomes a collective voice: a place of encounter between art, language, and community.
The work originates from large, original canvases that the artist has fragmented into unique elements, each hand-finished with symbolic words tied to the Italian language and culture. Every fragment is a small original, a sign of memory and belonging: together, they form a great mosaic of voices and colors that recalls the votive walls of Italian tradition — spaces of collective gratitude and devotion.
Through this act of dissemination, Italophony manifests itself as a choral energy — alive and in motion.
Words become artistic and symbolic matter, traces of a language that unites and regenerates, that does not remain enclosed but expands into the urban fabric, speaking to passersby, tourists, and the citizens of Madrid.
Each visitor is invited to choose a word and take it with them — a simple gesture that transforms the work into a shared experience, a bridge between Italian culture and the community that welcomes it.
CORALE celebrates language not as a code, but as a shared breath, as a space inhabited together — a poetic act that restores to art its highest purpose: to unite, transform, and create dialogue between different worlds in a single voice.
ANSA – ‘Italofonia corale’ di Gianluca Lattuada a XXV Settimana Lingua
