Meneghetti & Lizori

As an artist, Antonio Meneghetti revitalises the place, giving a new vigour to the old genius loci, and giving everyone the chance to experience its intimate mysticism.
As an entrepreneur, he has provided Lizori with an autonomous economic strategy through private initiative, which ensures the continuing financial success of the village and its inhabitants.
As a scientist, he maintains a modern outlook for the village, using a contemporary cultural logic and safeguarding the principles of humanistic ethics, giving it efficacy and strength.
All of this projects Lizori beyond the architectural boundaries, as testimony of humanistic power. In the end, the real protagonist won’t be the Castle, but the mind of those people who can give shape to operative values of inner responsibility and historical creativity.

Lizori

In July 1975, a group made of architects, American artists and others gathered here. They made an attempt to draw the institutions’ attention with the operation called Save the Castle of Pissignano. After some initial expressions of interest, these potential sponsors quickly decided that, rather than being a possible goldmine, the project would require years of work, with no easy profits in sight.
So, there was the village on the one hand (or at least the idea of it), and there was the idea to save it as soon as possible on the other, because this was going to last forever. Last but not least, funds had to be found. The general opinion was that the whole thing required a lot of money.