status:
Exhibition
year:
2020
place:
Drogheria, via Tortona 19, Milan
client:
Tortona Locations
with:
Matilde Cassani Studio
area:
70 m²
description:
‘The Underwood: a new interior space’ is an exhibition co-curated by Francesca Benedetto and Matilde Cassani hosted in the Drogheria via Tortona 19 and promoted by Tortona Locations. Between 1997 and 1998 the artists Fischli and Weiss produced an artwork titled ‘Flowers and Mushrooms’. Their goal was to investigate flowers and mushrooms at the 1: 1 scale. They looked at these subjects both as single individuals and as colonies to be observed in their continuous evolution and specificity. Loosely inspired by this work, the curators invite the visitors to consider the living underwood as a space within the city. The exhibition recreates a fragment of this natural habitat within the walls of the Drogheria in via Tortona; as in a living diorama, the visitors will be able to explore an undulating topography veiled by fog. Here it will be possible to discover the underwood’s life and the species that inhabit it. This intimate and immersive experience, in which public space and interiors coincide, will reveal a new relationship of coexistence between Nature and City, thus helping to imagine a possible future for Milan.
Thanks to the collaboration with Sense – immaterial Reality, the exhibition could be experienced also through augmented reality
