While it took five centuries to build the Duomo, Milan is also capable of changing its face in a mere decade. Since the early years of the 1900s, Milan has been the most dynamic testing grounds of architecture in all of Italy - from the Central Station to the Pirellone, modernity has a home here, exploring new ways of urban living. The first big revolution came after World War II. Reconstruction was a top priority, but the boom of the ‘60s was already percolating in town - architects like Gio Ponti, BBPR, Aldo Rossi, Giovanni Muzio gave shape to the “Milan Style”, creating buildings in the city such as the Pirellone, Palazzo Montecatini, Ca’ Brutta and the Torre Velasca. Creativity, education and industry were the points of a triangle that attracted the best talents of Italian architecture and more to the city. And this dynamism has come back to the fore over the last decade, riding the wave of Expo 2015. The pioneering residential projects of City Life and the Bosco Verticale, the Porta Nuova Complex, the headquarters of the Fondazione Prada, Feltrinelli and Mudec are just a few examples of a pleasurable revolution. And it is happening at the hands of internationally famed “archi-stars” with whom the city has created a preferential rapport - from Renzo Piano to Rem Koolhas, from Zaha Hadid to David Chipperfield, but also David Libeskind, Arata Isozaki, Herzog and de Meuron and Grafton Architects. And, of course, homegrown talents like Cino Zucchi and Stefano Boeri.
A journey through one of the most disturbing and attractive motifs in art historiography: the severed head. A careful selection of this iconography from antiquity to the present day, which highlights some of the most famous heads in history.
Created in collaboration with the Goffredo Parise and Giosetta Fioroni Foundation, the exhibition retraces the entire arc of the artist’s long career, born in Rome in 1932, through the theme of the gaze and the representation of female otherness.
Atoui explores the acoustic properties and specific ways in which elements such as bronze, water, glass and stone transmit and reflect sound. Using electronic instruments and custom-built computers, the artist reflects on current social and political realities.
The Allegory of Death in Alberto Martini's Drawings
As part of the celebrations for the artist Alberto Martini, the Sforza Castle is exhibiting an important group of works present in the civic collections.
A festive season filled with wonder, from traditional tastes like Panettone to distinguished tasting menus, a special Afternoon Tea and exclusive Spa experiences.
