ROOMS. Novel living concepts: discovering the projects

XXI Triennale di Milano

from april 2 to september 12

 

“ROOMS. Novel living concepts”, exhibition showcases interior architecture as interpreted by 11 leading architects who have taken on the most meaningful and profound issues of contemporary society, identified by the philosopher Francesco Cataluccio and drawn from the greatest philosophical and literary works.

 

MDF ITALIA IN SPONSORSHIP with the architect ELISABETTA TERRAGNI. Has drawn on an almost archetypal painting by Max Ernst from 1920 for her concept. Working from an old schoolbook image, Ernst took away almost everything, but left the figures of the animals in their original positions, achieving a truly surreal effect. Taking away rather than adding to seems to be a necessary process for underscoring the essential: the ghosts that remain and take on the permanent value  of expressing feelings. This is the modus operandi adopted by the German art historian Aby Warburg, rediscovered at the end of the twentieth-century, whose theories are now considered fundamental to an anthropological reading of images, as discussed by the French art historian Georges Didi-Huberman in L'Image Survivante. Histoire de l'Art et Temps des Fantômes Selon Aby Warburg (2002).

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Photo by Andrea Martiradonn