The Milan Triennale pays tribute to Gillo Dorfles a month after his death and presents his latest book

Gillo Dorfles passed away last March 2, just over a month before his 108th birthday (here is the link to the news story). To pay tribute to the art critic, on April 10, thus two days before his birthday, at 6.30 in the Salone d’Onore of the Milan Triennale there will be an event in his memory and, for the occasion, there will also be the presentation of his latest book, "My America."
The book is an account of his stay in the United States of America: Beginning after World War II, Gillo Dorfles traveled to the States where he met the best-known scholars of aesthetic problems and art critics(Thomas Munro, Clement Greenberg, James Sweeney, Alfred Barr, Rudolf Arnheim, György Kepes) and dialogued with some of the leading architects of the East and West Coast(Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Frederick Kiesler).

From his sojourns Dorfles drew inspiration for numerous articles on American society, painting, architecture, design and aesthetics, at the time published in Domus, Casabella, Aut Aut, La Lettura, Metro and in numerous catalogs, articles that, collected now together with other unpublished writings in this volume, allow us to delve into one of the most significant and stimulating periods of Anerican culture, through the tales and memories of the great art critic.
The appointment will be attended by Stefano Boeri, Aldo Colonetti, Nicoletta Ossanna Cavadini and Luigi Sansone.

Sansone wrote in the book’s preface, "Dorfles was among the first art critics to travel to the United States in the years immediately following the World War to deepen his knowledge about art, architecture and life in the United States.Italy, after a long period of cultural obscuration due to the war and the notorious political events that preceded it, needed to open up to the rest of the world in order to break the isolation that had conditioned its development in many areas, not least the socio-cultural one, for more than two decades. The 1950s saw a thickening of artistic exchanges between Italy and the United States, exchanges that had begun to intensify after the presentation in 1948 at the Venice Biennale of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, which included, among others, works by the leading exponents ofAmerican Abstract Expressionism..."

The meeting will end with a toast and cake with a drawing chosen by Dorfles himself. Admission is free while places last.

The Milan Triennale pays tribute to Gillo Dorfles a month after his death and presents his latest book

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