Poldi Pezzoli's works on display at Milan's Central Station. In digital format

Eighteen works from Milan ’s Poldi Pezzoli Museum will be on display at Milan’s Central Station. We are not, however, talking about the originals, but rather their digital versions, which will be projected on the new high-definition big screens that make up the “Mosaic,” the new Grandi Stazioni Retail advertising system inaugurated last week and installed in the Galleria dei Mosaici, inside the Station. The eighteen digital reproductions go to build an ’exhibition’ entitled Glances from the Poldi, promoted by Grandi Stazioni Retail and the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, which will be on view in Milano Centrale station from Saturday, May 20.

Each of the 18 screens that make up the Mosaic projects three works in rotation, starting from a detail, as if to recall the common habit of enlarging photos on our smartphones to explore their details. Through a scenographic effect, the works are then shown in their entirety, offering people the chance to admire their full splendor. For the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, this is a phygityal experience that aims to open new scenarios and possibilities for the promotion of artistic heritage.

The works on display are also intended to dialogue with the Gallery’s artistic heritage, distinguished by Giovanni Chini’s decorative details and, on the ground, by Venetian-style mosaics, topped by Basilio Cascella’s majolica ceramics: this is the intention of the museum, for which the works, reads a note, “will constitute a new element of entertainment and discovery for visitors, establishing a relationship of mutual gaze: in fact, as the title of the exhibition suggests, the chosen paintings are portraits that, thanks to the high definition of the screens will seem to look at the viewer, between waiting for a train and a moment of rest.”

The ’exhibition’ will be visible to visitors for a month, until June 20, and will be broadcast on weekdays at the beginning of every hour (from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.) for three minutes. On weekends, however, the exhibition will be visible on big screens for 30 minutes at 11 a.m.

Among them will be Piero Pollaiolo’s Portrait of a Young Lady, the Museum’s signature work; the PocketWatch, a typical “lover’s eye” conceived as a pledge of love between two clandestine lovers; Gio Ponti’s Cista, the star work of the exhibition that the Poldi Pezzoli will devote next fall to porcelain from the Manifattura Ginori; the Knight in Black, one of the finest examples of full-length portraiture and men’s fashion of the 16th century; and, finally, Sandro Botticelli’s Madonna of the Book, a famous work embellished with details made with lapis lazuli powder, where the gaze between the mother and child is charged with meaning.

The works on display: Francesco Hayez, Self-Portrait in a Group of Friends (1825-1830); Colleoni Armor (c. 1600-1610); Sandro Botticelli, Madonna of the Book (1480-1481); Hunting Carpet “Tabriz” (1542-1543); Giuseppe and Pompeo Bertini, The Triumph of Dante (c. 1851); Vincenzo Foppa, Portrait of Giovanni Francesco Brivio (1515-1516); Carlo Ginori, Laocoon (1735-1750); Giovanni Battista Moroni, The Knight in Black (1567); Andrea Previtali called Cordeliaghi, Portrait of a Man - Memento mori (c. 1502); Moricand & Degrange, Pocket Watch (1830); Piero del Pollaiolo, Portrait of a Young Lady (1470-1472); Gio Ponti, Cista (1927, Manifattura Richard Ginori); Sofonisba Anguissola, Self-Portrait (c. 1558); Vase with Lid (1715, gift of the Zerilli Marimò family, Meissen manufactory); Vittore Ghislandi known as Fra’ Galgario(Portrait of a Knight of the Constantinian Order, c. 1740); Capoletto with St. Christopher and Child (18th century); Lucas Cranach the Elder (workshop), Portrait of Martin Luther (c. 1529); Black Room, with Lorenzo Bartolini, Trust in God (1836).

Poldi Pezzoli's works on display at Milan's Central Station. In digital format

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