'Verso altrove': In memory of Heysel

Remembering, but not letting oneself be overwhelmed, by the pain of loss and mourning, with an eye on the future and a new hope of rebirth. It is from this desire that 'Verso Altrove' (translated in English as "elsewhere") will come to life, the work that Juventus will dedicate to the memory of the Heysel tragedy, the 40th anniversary of which will fall on 29 May 2025.

The project, entrusted to Luca Beatrice, art critic and president of the Quadriennale di Roma, and realised by Luca Vitone, a renowned international artist, has been definitively approved by the City of Turin and will be realised in the next few months in a green area of approximately two thousand square metres near Strada della Continassa, a stone's throw from the Allianz Stadium, the Juventus Training Centre and the club headquarters.

From the turf, embellished by Ginko Biloba trees and lavender bushes, will rise a sixty-five-metre platform with the light shape of a centrifugal spiral, rising more than three metres above the ground. A light, architecturally simple structure, inside which a neon light will be positioned along the entire route, allowing the work to be visible even from a considerable distance in the darkness.

At the end of the ramp, facing the landscape in front, a telescope will be positioned with lenses mounted upside down so that the focus is on the horizon. A clear invitation to look far away, towards the absolute. The very choice of the tree species that will be planted is strongly symbolic: lavender refers to the olfactory call of dreamlike sensations, often present in Vitone's works, while the Ginko Biloba is an ancient tree, whose origins date back millions of years, to the Mesozoic era, considered a living fossil representing resistance, the synthesis in its sap of past and future.

'Verso altrove' will therefore not just be a memorial, but a poetic object, an area that will become an active space which will invite the public to remember what has been, in an ideal path of asceticism, aimed at the future, at life. Elsewhere.