One hundred years of this art

The first time was seen a Fiat Uno with an attached trailer that sank in the middle of the Octagon Galleria Vittorio Emanuele has been more than a glance. Because in a few months, the intrusion of art in Milan well (to Brera, the old buildings downtown have fallen into disuse or centrally located as the Arengario and Palazzo Litta) would become more and more improvisation hold.

A contradiction? No, because the artists who brought Beatrice Trussardi in Milan since 2003 (with the aforementioned installation by Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset) continue to raise the tone with shock works (see the dolls hanging tree by Cattelan) and moving praise the slow (such as video Tacita Dean).

Now all the provocations of almost a decade has been gathered to celebrate the Centenary of Trussardi in 1911, and for the first time, the Foundation leaves the location and moves to Milan Stazione Leopolda in Florence where, in the middle of Pitti Immagine Uomo 79, has just been inaugurated The collective 8 ½.

Curated by Massimiliano Gioni and created in collaboration with the Fondazione Pitti Discovery, see the exhibition presents the works (almost all commissioned and produced by the Fondazione Trussardi) of 13 artists who have influenced contemporary art in recent decades, housed in a container from the past majestic as the Stazione Leopolda.

To begin to suffer almost ten years of art should look up and see the business card displayed on the front of the Station: Everything is Going to Be Alright, the neon sign of Martin Creed, which introduces the creative magma that awaits inside. A true homage to 8 1 / 2 Fellini's mentioned in the title of the exhibition.

Inside, gum Paul McCarty's house until the bread Urs Fischer strip about a boy (in the flesh) by Tino Sehgal famous for its "Constructed Situations." Even in silent confrontation worlds (a group of Chinese attention and calm zebras in freedom) with the big picture Paola Pivi that seem to talk to each other until a multi screen video installations Darren Almond.

A continuous alternation of languages with which art seeks to bring the audience because this is perhaps one of the goals better achieved by the Foundation: to make contemporary art even a surprise that there has been accustomed to. And of course men: the double self-portrait lying on the bed of Maurizio Cattelan and the monumental (yet light as air) Pawel Althamer inflatable man that stands out most in the sky but wake-naked-on 100 years of aesthetic Trussardi.

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