Milan, multi-specialty medical center opens permanent showcase on contemporary art

Milan ’s ADEC multi-specialty medical center has opened its new space on Edmondo De Amicis Street with the intention of offering the city a sign of concrete gratitude by providing its three large and bright windows on the street to promote art and beauty. ADEC’s intention is for art not to remain confined only to spaces elected for that purpose, but to be brought to the street, like an open-air museum, visible to passersby, so that more and more people can enjoy it.

The project is developed in a time course that will see historical and other contemporary artists alternating, engaged in a new exhibition experience. The transparency of the glass will emphasize the interdisciplinary attitude of their research that will allow them to move beyond the limits of space, placing themselves at the crossroads of visual art, photography and installation. The environment of the showcases, to be constructed and shaped, thus becomes the place where the works confront the outside world in a more accessible and usable crossroads of relationships at any time of the day.

ADEC entrusted this project for the first year to Davide Di Maggio, who accepted the invitation to translate the principle of making art as universal as possible, without social distinctions or filters, into an articulated exhibition program. The exhibitions kicked off with Israeli photographer Michael Ackerman (Tel Aviv, 1967), but works by Yoko Ono (Tokyo, 1933), Wolf Vostell (Leverkusen, 1932-Berlin, 1998) and Albanian artist/photographer Nerina Toci (Tirana, 1988) will also arrive over the course of the year. The curatorial intent is to bring back, through the viewer’s senses, a high level of perception that includes not only looking, but seeing and feeling. The exhibition idea stands as a moment of choral reflection, in which the stimulus to meditation is not only reserved for the public but represents a source of inspiration and research for the artists themselves, careful to read into the folds of their time, as every artist must be able to do.

ADEC’s permanent showcase ofcontemporary art hosts until Aug. 30, 2022, the exhibition Floating Silhouettes by Israeli photographer Michael Ackerman. In his work, documentary and autobiography concur in fiction and everything dissolves into hallucination. His photography is shot through with ordinary and extraordinary themes: time and timelessness, personal history and the history of place restored through deteriorated and damaged images, not as a stylistic choice but as an analogical reference to experience, which is never pristine. His particular travels embrace New York, Havana, Berlin, Naples, Paris, Warsaw and Krakow, but the places are not necessarily recognizable. Ackerman has long moved toward erasing geographical and other distinctions in his photographs with a desire to move away from the restrictions of the traditional documentary method. White, heavily vignetted, and black characterize all his work, creating muffled almost foggy atmospheres where figures appear unreal in the reality that surrounds them. He confronts raw reality and photographs it without filters or lies.

Image: Michael Ackerman, Poland 2008

Milan, multi-specialty medical center opens permanent showcase on contemporary art

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