Milan Triennial XV | |
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Overview | |
BIE-class | Triennial exposition |
Name | Milan Triennial XV |
Building(s) | Palazzo del Arte |
Location | |
Country | Italy |
City | Milan |
Coordinates | 45°28′19.92″N9°10′24.78″E / 45.4722000°N 9.1735500°E |
Triennial expositions | |
Previous | Milan Triennial XIV in Milan |
Next | Milan Triennial XVI in Milan |
The Milan Triennial XV was the Triennial in Milan sanctioned by the Bureau of International Expositions (BIE) held in 1973.
The director of the International Architecture section was Aldo Rossi with Bonicalzi, Braghieri, Franco Raggi, Massimo Scolari and Daniele Vitale. [1]
In September Friedensreich Hundertwasser planted 15 trees in Via Manzoni apartments. [2]
Giorgio de Chirico created the "Mysterious Baths Fountain" in Parco Sempione. [3]
The architect Richard Meier was another contributor. [4]
Aldo Rossi was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was one of the leading proponents of the postmodern movement.
Richard Meier is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. A winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984, Meier has designed several iconic buildings including the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and San Jose City Hall. In 2018, some of Meier's employees accused him of sexual assault, which led to him resigning from his firm in 2021.
Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His best-known works often feature Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, trains, and illogical perspective. His imagery reflects his affinity for the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and of Friedrich Nietzsche, and for the mythology of his birthplace.
Carlo Carrà was an Italian painter and a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number of books concerning art. He taught for many years in the city of Milan.
The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art is a museum in Canonbury Square in the district of Islington on the northern fringes of central London. It is the United Kingdom's only gallery devoted to modern Italian art and is a registered charity under English law.
Metaphysical painting or metaphysical art was a style of painting developed by the Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà. The movement began in 1910 with de Chirico, whose dreamlike works with sharp contrasts of light and shadow often had a vaguely threatening, mysterious quality, "painting that which cannot be seen". De Chirico, his younger brother Alberto Savinio, and Carrà formally established the school and its principles in 1917.
Massimo Campigli was an Italian painter and journalist.
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Mario Sironi was an Italian Modernist artist who was active as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer. His typically somber paintings are characterized by massive, immobile forms.
Massimiliano Fuksas is an Italian architect. He is the head of Studio Fuksas in partnership with his wife, Doriana Mandrelli Fuksas, with offices in Rome, Paris and Shenzhen.
Giovanni Lista is an Italian art historian and art critic, resides in Paris. He is a specialist in the artistic cultural scene of the 1920s, particularly in Futurism.
Giulio Paolini is an Italian artist associated with both Arte Povera and Conceptual Art.
Parco Sempione is a large city park in the historic center of Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy. Established in 1888, and designed by Emilio Alemagna, it has an overall area of 38.6 hectares, and it is located inside the Zone 1 administrative division.
The Giorgio de Chirico House Museum is a house museum in the 16th century Palazzetto del Borgognoni at Piazza di Spagna 31 in Rome. The house was acquired by Giorgio de Chirico in 1948. It was left to the state by his widow and opened as an art museum dedicated to his work in 1998. Only open by appointment, it is closed on Mondays and Sundays. The nearest Metro stop is Spagna.
Arduino Cantafora, Italian-Swiss architect, painter, and writer. He was the student of Aldo Rossi
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The Milan Triennial V was the first to be held at the Palazzo dell'Arte, the first recognised by the Bureau of International Expositions and also the first to be a triennial event.
The Milan Triennial XIII was the Triennial in Milan on the theme of Leisure, sanctioned by the Bureau of International Expositions (BIE) on 12 November 1963 and held between 12 June 1964 and 27 September 1964.