By Artec
A symphony of light for the city of Ancona.
Anima Dorica turns the monumental staircase of Piazza IV Novembre in Ancona into a poetic composition where light, music, and architecture breathe together. Conceived by Maurici Ginés for iGuzzini and the Comune di Ancona, the project reinterprets the original lighting design by Francesca Cecarini as a living experience. What began as a technical installation becomes, through Ginés’s artistic direction, a narrative about presence, emotion, and the bond between the city and its sea.
The concept imagines a soul emerging from the Adriatic and discovering the staircase. At first hesitant, the spirit rises from the water, moves through the steps with curiosity, and finally dances freely before returning to the sea. This journey unfolds in three acts—Awakening, Dance, and Farewell—a sequence that reveals the evolution from discovery to connection and, finally, to departure. The work speaks of rhythm, gravity, and transcendence: a choreography of light that transforms architecture into memory.
Under Ginés’s direction, every discipline became part of the same score. The music by Pierfrancesco Ceregioli, written in the Dorian mode as a tribute to the city’s ancient identity, set the emotional pulse of the piece. From that composition, Ginés developed the narrative framework that guided the light’s behavior. Each instrument became a character: the rain stick as the pulse of the sea, the cello lifting the gaze, the saxophone breathing vertically like a human presence, and the piano touching the stone as if tracing each step.
Throughout the process, Ginés guided every layer, the timing of light, the emotional cadence of the music, the mapping of the space, so that all elements would act as one. The result is a piece that speaks without words. Light no longer illuminates; it breathes, listens, and remembers.
Captured through a drone film, Anima Dorica preserves an ephemeral moment in which Ancona’s architecture becomes both stage and instrument. The project stands as a collective creation, born from collaboration yet unified under a single artistic vision. In it, Maurici Ginés transforms technology into emotion and returns light to its most human form: a story about soul, place, and the desire to stay connected.
