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Carlo Aymonino, 10 years later with his heart against oblivion

2021-06-25T13:09:35.008Z


The exhibition at the Triennale, a conference and celebrations in Rome (ANSA) TRIENNALE (MILAN) - It's like entering Alice's world of wonders and feeling too small or too big, then walking along the line of life, a bloodline that is interrupted with three drops in 1991, ten years before her death, to find art, politics, architecture and private life mixed together in a collage of overlaps in which true and false have no boundaries. It is the exhibition that the Milan Trienn


TRIENNALE (MILAN) - It's like entering Alice's world of wonders and feeling too small or too big, then walking along the line of life, a bloodline that is interrupted with three drops in 1991, ten years before her death, to find art, politics, architecture and private life mixed together in a collage of overlaps in which true and false have no boundaries.

It is the exhibition that the Milan Triennale dedicates to the architect Carlo Aymonino (1926-2010), entitled 'Faithfulness to betrayal' which will be open until 22 August.


    It was born to celebrate the ten years since his death, explain the daughters Livia and Silvia Aymonino, who conceived it '' to bring our father out of an oblivion in which for many reasons he had ended up ''., It was wanted by the president of the Triennale Stefano Boeri and is curated by Manuel Orazi. Thanks to the particular and almost dreamlike setting by Federica Parolini, '' we tried to bring to light the figure of our father after a silence of ten years - Livia and Silvia tell ANSA - but after a lost legacy and a collector who does not want to exhibit anything, we made an attempt to look into the homes of the large family with three wives, four children.The result was extraordinary even if we had more private material than architectural but we knew that in our father's life things were not absolutely distinct ''. '' One of us (Silvia) - they explain again - decided that that grandiose remnant in our possession had to be mapped.


    He called a photographer friend who gave us back our father / husband hanging above the walls of our houses, in a book of nearly two hundred pages. We discovered that it was not really a leftover but a powerful story to be traversed and shared with others. Because it concerned not only our twenty-eight walls and the family saga, but also the walls of all those who had lived through that unrepeatable period or, who came later, wanted to know ''.


    First a book was born and then the exhibition which will now also become a documentary made by Odino Artioli. Meanwhile, in Rome, the Department of Architecture and Design of Sapienza dedicates the cycle of events "Carlo Roma 2020" to its relationship with the city, which aims to open a discussion on the legacy of the master's work in the contemporary architectural panorama. This cycle of events includes the international conference "Carlo Aymonino. Project, city and politics" (23 and 24 June 2021), the exhibition "Drawings for Carlo Aymonino" (23 June - 23 September 2021) and the exhibition "Opera in quattro parti .


    Readings of the Pesaro Campus "(23 June - 23 September 2021) which can be visited at the Faculty of Architecture, headquarters in Valle Giulia.


    But Carlo Aymonino was not only Rome, where he lived and was also councilor for the historic center, but Venice and Palermo, where he taught for a long time, Pesaro which hosted many of his works, Milan and Paris, the reference city, Matera. '' His relationship with the many cities is fundamental, places where he has left a precise and unmistakable mark, especially in the suburbs. In the exhibition, for example, a gigantic plan of the Gallaratese district in Milan, which comes from the Beaubourg, is the central pivot.


    For Lorenza Baroncelli, Artistic Director of Triennale Milano "The world of architecture has guilty underestimated Aymonino '', and this according to his daughters '' also happened because he had remained an artisan, a figure absolutely far from that of today's star architects. Then there is also the private data because in 1991, ten years before his death, he had physical problems and since then he moved further away from the world of architecture which was also changing. '' He who `` understood reality only if he drew it '', and who put the human element in every drawing, and which, as he says in an interview, would make cities only of squares. But when asked which was his ideal city he draws a line, which today's via del Corso,between Piazza del Popolo and the Campidoglio, in short, the center of Rome.


Source: ansa

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