Milan, six galleries team up to enhance the Monti district

In Milan, six art galleries (Federico Luger, Officine Saffi, Pananti Atelier, Podbielski Contemporary, Galleria Tonelli, and Viasaterna) and three institutions (Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti, Fondazione Piero Portaluppi, and Fondazione Stelline) are teaming up by teaming up to redesign in an artistic and cultural sense the perimeter of Zona Monti, offering the city a coordinated opening day on September 30, 2020, from 12 to 10 p.m. and, starting at 6 p.m., two architecture walks. The initiative, organizers let organizers know, stems from the galleries’ desire to create a fabric of relationships that connects art galleries together with some foundations and archives related to art and architecture, constituting a cultural district extended between the Arco della Pace, Conciliazione, Santa Maria delle Grazie and Cadorna that guides visitors to discover the heterogeneous artistic languages of the individual spaces.

The first edition of Zona Monti (this is the title chosen for the event) sees a path winding through the Federico Luger galleries, which inaugurates the new space with a group exhibition of international artists, invited to make their contribution for this first opening. Chinese artist Yewen Dong’s polymateric paintings and German artist Johannes Nagel’s vase-sculptures dialogue in the exhibition The evolution of things, a two-person show focused on the evolution of ceramic making hosted by Officine Saffi. Pananti Atelier hosts Secondo Natura, a solo exhibition by Ferruccio Ascari curated by Twenty14 that offers a new cycle of works that understand nature as the manifestation of an energy, which is a perennial dialectic between permanence and change.

The photography group show Pleasure Garden, currently underway at Podbielski Contemporary, brings to fruition a research work that began in Paris in the 1970s and now arrives at the maturation of a new approach to the artistic nude. At Tonelli Gallery, Lucio Fontana ’s papers, ceramics and canvases from the 1920s to the 1960s will be the protagonists of the exhibition Un mese con Lucio Fontana, where it will be possible to admire the artist’s multifaceted nature through a path of works alternating between abstraction and figuration. Viasaterna presents Fireflies in the Third Nature, the first Italian solo exhibition of Mexican artist Cristóbal Gracia, who, with civic engagement and different media (painting, sculpture, photography, video) addresses the major themes of the cultural and social contradictions of our time.

Among the private institutions in the area, theArchivio Vincenzo Agnetti participates in the initiative with the exhibition Ovunque lo accompagnava il racconto, which presents works by Vincenzo Agnetti from the period between 1978 and 1980, years in which the relationship with poetry, always undercurrent in his work, becomes a visible and strong presence. The Piero Portaluppi Foundation, established to promote the study of architecture, graphic arts and cultural phenomena, is based in a building designed by the famous architect in the late 1930s, in the premises that housed his studio. The Stelline Foundation, a historic public institution in Milan, presents the exhibition Ganga Ma, the result of a 10-year photographic research by Giulio Di Sturco carried out on the Ganges River, documenting the devastating effects of pollution, industrialization and climate change.

And again, as anticipated, from 6 p.m. Maria Vittoria Capitanucci, an architectural historian and lecturer at the Milan Polytechnic, will lead two outdoor architecture walks: these are Milanese Masters between the 1920s and the postwar period, which will take the public to discover a constellation of significant presences that tell the architectural history of Milan and beyond, in an area that had already represented, in the 19th century, a paradigmatic example of urban and infrastructural planning with the construction of the Northern railway line, the Cadorna station and the elegant urban fabric that surrounds it. The two itineraries, each lasting 40 minutes, will be accompanied by a talk by Professor Marco De Michelis, architectural historian. The walks are limited in number, for info and reservations archtourzonamonti.milano@gmail.com.

Zona Monti, the organizers point out, stems from the desire to enhance the cultural and artistic fabric of an area of Milan where important public and private realities coexist side by side with medieval, Renaissance and 20th century masterpieces of Lombard art and architecture, giving the opportunity to rediscover the neighborhood through a synergistic dialogue between its private galleries, foundations, archives and points of interest that will be progressively invited to take part in the project and share its vision. The project is part of the MuseoCity circuit, which works to promote and enhance Milan’s museum heritage.

Pictured: Pananti Atelier

Milan, six galleries team up to enhance the Monti district

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