Sottsass, photographic eye

Sottsass, photographic eye
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Ettore Sottsass. Design Metaphors | Foto: Gianluca Di Ioia | © Triennale Milano
Ettore Sottsass. Design Metaphors | Foto: Gianluca Di Ioia | © Triennale Milano

Architect Ettore Sottsass dedicated himself to photography: a language that, like drawing, allowed him to transport the viewer to evocative and imaginary places, asking new questions about the meaning of existence, in a mysterious balance between depth and lightness.
 On display at the Triennale are a series of photographs, grouped under the name of Metaphors, taken between 1972 and 1978, years of great critical reflection for Sottsass. 
Grouped by theme - Drawings for the destinies of man, Drawings for human rights and Drawings for the needs of animals - the works had already been exhibited in 1976 in New York in the collective exhibition Man Transforms held at the Cooper Hewitt Museum. 
The photographs in the Engagements and Decorations series were taken after 1976, during numerous trips to America, Greece, the Middle East and Italy.
 The exhibition enriches the experience at the Milanese museum where the permanent installation of Casa Lana has been located since January 2021. This is the interior of a private residence designed by Sottsass around the mid-1960s in Milan, faithfully reconstructed and accessible to the public thanks to the donation of Barbara Radice Sottsass.

Veronica Azzari - © 2024 ARTE.it for Bvlgari Hotel Milano