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The Diocesan Museum of Milan hosts the exhibition DESIGN Behind DESIGN

From 2 April to 12 September, Milan’s Diocesan Museum (in Corso di Porta Ticinese 95) is hosting the exhibition #design Behind #design.
Curated by Marco Romanelli and Carlo Capponi, assisted by Natale Benazzi, Laura Lazzaroni and Andrea Sarto, and organised by the Archdiocese of Milan on the express impetus of the Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Angelo Scola, with the support of Mapei as main sponsor and of Luceplan of Milan, Poltrona Frau of Tolentino and Apice of Milan as technical sponsors, the exhibition is being held on the occasion of the XXI Milan International Triennale Exposition, entitled 21st Century. #design After #design, with the aim of narrating what architects, designers and artists have conceived and designed with the Catholic church as their client, or otherwise representing holiness, featuring works of art, photographs, items of décor, works of architecture and musical compositions, by such artists and authors as Lucio Fontana, Fausto Melotti, Francesco Messina, Mario Sironi, Nicola De Maria, Mimmo Paladino, Gio Ponti, Figini and Pollini, Vico Magistretti, Angelo Mangiarotti, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Roberto Sambonet, Nanni Strada, Giulio Iacchetti, Afra and Tobia Scarpa, William Xerra, Gabriele Basilico, Mario Carrieri, Francesco Radino, Mario Cresci, Luciano Migliavacca, Luigi Picchi, Francis Poulenc, Igor Stravinsky and many others.
The initiative invites visitors to delve deeper than the physical essence of the object, be it a work of art or of #design, in a quest for an implicit meaning it contains but that, for other motives, goes beyond the primary function for which it was made. To tell the story of some of these pieces is to discover the creative fire in man that enables him to see beyond his pencil, to #design an object on the basis of ‘rules’ that convey an impression of its significance, in addition to its necessary technical functions.

Organised by thematic areas, the exhibition experience starts with a section devoted to architecture. Here, photographs commissioned for the purpose from Giovanni Chiaramonte are employed to generate environmental projections of some of Milan’s most important modern churches. These have been described by Cardinal Angelo Scola as “collective places of quality”, since he considers them to have a vitally important role to play in embracing the various communities in the diocese, in accordance with the policy mapped out in the mid-fifties by Giovanni Battista Montini, at the time Archbishop of Milan and destined to be raised in due course to the Papal See as Pope Paul VI. He it was who first hit on the idea of opening the church to contemporary society, inviting the most interesting artists and architects of his day to contribute to the process. As a result, this #event sets out to analyse the heritage of such architects as Gio Ponti (San Francesco al Fopponino, 1964), Figini and Pollini (Madonna dei Poveri, 1952-1956), Vico Magistretti and Mario Tedeschi (Santa Maria Nascente in the Milan neighbourhood of QT8, 1954-1955), Giovanni Muzio (San Giovanni Battista alla Creta, 1956-1958), Ignazio Gardella (San Francesco in the INA Casa village at Cesate, 1958) and Luigi Caccia Dominioni (San Biagio, Monza, 1965-1967).
The exhibition will then also feature works of excellence created by artists and designers who have tackled issues of holiness and the rules of sacred rites, so dealing with liturgy. Certain contemporary kinds of sacred décor will be chosen to illustrate this theme, ranging from crucifixes and chalices to vestments and Gospels: these will be juxtaposed with pieces from the Diocesan museum’s permanent collections to furnish an unprecedented, tangible comparison between ancient and modern. In this venture, the masterpieces of luxurious art hosted in the Museum’s exhibition rooms, which cover a time span from the fourth to the twenty-first centuries, will be flanked by such contemporary creations as the crosses designed by Giulio Iacchetti, Marta Laudani, Marco Ferreri, Emilio Nanni, Lorenzo Damiani and Studio Quattroassociati, the chasuble made of gold laminate fabric by Nanni Strada and the chalices designed by Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Tito Amodei and Giuseppe Polvara, as well as the priceless three-flame candlestick and the Ambrosian monstrance made to designs by Giovanni Muzio.
Of particular importance is the section of the exhibition devoted to painting and sculpture, where visitors will find two Crucifixions by Lucio Fontana, on loan from private collections (to be compared with the celebrated White Via Crucis, 1955, held in the Diocesan Museum on deposit from the Region of Lombardy), sculptures by Francesco Messina (a bust of Cardinal Schuster, from the Archiepiscopal Collections), by Fausto Melotti (The Veronica, from the Melotti Foundation) and by Emilio Greco (Head of Apostle, from the Paul VI Foundation Collections in Varese), as well as paintings by Mario Sironi (Christ Carrying the Cross), William Congdon, Adolfo Wildt (Mater Misericordiae), Roberto Sambonet (Domes of the Saint in Padua) and William Xerra.
To complete the picture, the exhibition will also analyse the more interesting cases of photographic research with sacred subjects, featuring Giovanni Chiaramonte’s Church of St Elisabeth in Berlin, Mario Cresci’s photography of Guido Reni’s Murder of the Innocents, Gabriele Basilico’s visit to the Spires of Milan Cathedral, Mario Carrieri, who went to San Francisco to capture Pier Luigi Nervi’s light in St Mary’s Cathedral, or Francesco Radino, who focused his lens on examples of sacred art in his home area in the Antona Traversi Chapel in Meda.


The exhibition reaches its ideal conclusion with a section devoted to music, which introduces visitors to native Lombard composers of the calibre of Luciano Migliavacca and Luigi Picchi, with a chance to hear a programme of contemporary sacred music, whose purpose is not limited to holy rites alone, that will change several times in the course of the #event.

Catalogue by Silvana editoriale.

 

DESIGN Behind DESIGN
Diocesan Museum of Milan (Corso di Porta Ticinese 95)
2 April – 12 September 2016

Opening hours:
Tuesday-Sunday, 10.30 a.m. – 8.30 p.m. (the ticket office closes at 8.00 p.m.). Closed on Mondays.

From 7 July to 27 August: Tuesday-Saturday, 3.00-11.00 p.m. (The ticket office closes at 10.30 p.m.). Closed on Sundays and Mondays.

Special openings: Monday 25 April and Thursday 2 June: 10.30 a.m. – 8.30 p.m.
Closed: Sunday 1 May and Monday 15 August

Tickets (exhibition + Diocesan Museum): full price: €8.00 (Tuesdays: €4.00); reduced and special rates €5.00; school groups €2.00
Cumulative ticket (exhibition + Diocesan museum + Sant’Eustorgio): full price €12.00; reduced and special rates €7.00; school groups €3.00

For information: tel. +39.02.89420019; info.biglietteria@museodiocesano.it

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