Milano: Converso –
Franco Mazzucchelli – Re-appropriations Installation. Converso
is a new exhibition space in the former church of San Paolo Converso, built
between 1549-1619 and hosts frescos by Giulio and Antonio Campi, today it is also the
headquarters of the architectural firm CLS Architetti. The church was deconsecrated by
Napoleon, later it was used as a storage space, a concert hall and a recording studio
for, among others, Maria Callas.
Franco Mazzucchelli – Untitled – 1969 – inflatable PVC
Franco Mazzucchelli – Re-appropriations Installation
Converso presents Re-appropriations, until
April 1, a site-specif installation of Milan-based artist Franco Mazzucchelli,
curated by Michele D’Aurizio. Since the early 1970s Franco Mazzucchelli has
created environmental installations, in which inflatable volumes of joined
sheets of polyethylene are made walk-able and live-able. They are intended to disrupt the perception of a familiar place, and to
open a getaway from daily routine by suggesting an unfamiliar view of the
surrounding space. In the case of Re-appropriations, this attempt brackets out
and isolates a portion of a public space and exhorts people to take over that
space and redefine it, ultimately, to rediscover the potential of public spaces
to solicit spontaneous socialization, in which human encounters are freed of
hierarchy, and class, gender and ethnic differences become effaced.
Franco Mazzucchelli
Curator Michele D’Aurizio and artistic director Alexander May
San Paolo Converso
Franco Mazzucchelli – Re-appropriations
Installation – The Altar
Michele Lupi and Massimiliano
Locatelli
Margherita Maccapani Missoni, Mariuccia Casadio and Michele D’Aurizio
Paola Sanlorenzo and Enrica Massei
Michel Comte and Ayako Yoshida
Davide Agrati, Giovanna Cornelio
and Annamaria Scevola
Marzio Rusconi Clerici
San Paolo Converso
Franco Mazzucchelli – Re-appropriations
Installation
Umberta Gnutti Beretta, Warly Tomei and Cristina Morozzi
Rafael Herman, Cloe Piccoli and Tim Power
