Free admittance
Curator: Cristina Madini
Milan confirms its role as a crossroads of visions and expressive research, hosting an exhibition project that investigates the timeless dialogue between classic artistic materials and contemporary architecture. The exhibition takes shape within an avant-garde space defined by minimal rigor: a total white environment where pure volumes, clean stair geometries, and the transparency of steel and glass serve as the ideal counterpoint to visual research.
Bringing together works of painting, sculpture, and photography, the exhibition restores centrality to the foundational languages of visual arts. Within a technological, suspended frame, classic mediums reveal a renewed expressive power. Layered pigments and fields of color on canvas, the sculpturally molded weight of physical matter, and the analytical rigor of photography enter a short-circuit with the stark essentiality of the venue. The ultra-modern space does not act as a mere backdrop, but as a sounding board: glass reflections multiply viewpoints, metallic structures rhythm the vision, and absolute white isolates each artwork, highlighting every tactile and chromatic detail.
Set within these perfect geometries, the journey develops around the concept of the threshold: an invisible yet perceptible boundary between the two-dimensionality of the painting, the solid presence of the sculpture, the temporality captured in the photograph, and the transparency of the host architecture. Visitors are invited to cross this bright, rational space, where the convergence of classic language and contemporary design offers a rare opportunity to reconsider the value of form, volume, and visual memory.
This exhibition stands out as a prominent event in Milan's cultural landscape, offering a profound look at how painting, sculpture, and photography continue to inhabit the spaces of the future with striking modernity.
Artists: Elaine Asarch (USA), Paolo Beretti (Italy), Bassem H. Boustany (Lebanon), Jean-Marc Bregeault (France), Elisa Campana (Italy), Małgorzata Czerniawska (Poland), Riccardo Dametti (Italy), Fadiese (Laurent Martinez), Elise Margherita Franco (Belgium), Laurent Guez (Canada), Faten Khalil (Lebanon), Yuki Kiyohara (Japan), Rebeccah Klodt (USA), Gerhard Kroyer (Austria), Dieter Kunz (Austria), JUNKo LAROSSa (USA), Rahim Lascandri (Switzerland), Fiona Livingstone (Australia), Sara McKenzie (USA), Tsu OuYang (Taiwan), Michael K. Owino (Denmark), Pirjo Partanen (Finland), Sabrina Puppin (Italy), Esperanza Suarez-Anaya (Mexico), Josefina Temin (Mexico), Nadia Turato (Italy), and Yoshiko (Japan).
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday, 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM, with a special Sunday opening until 5:00 PM.
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