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L’architettura della cittą | the exhibition
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Dorsoduro 2196 – Venezia
2011.10.28 >
11.8 | the exhibition was extended until 2011.11.17
mon > fri | 9 a.m. > 7 p.m.
opening 10.28.2011
at 12 a.m.
Traces of The architecture of the city are scattered everywhere in the world:
in public and private archives, from Los Angeles to Rome, Milan or Frankfurt,
and we don’t really know anything about Asia and Far East; in the same
texts by Aldo Rossi, either published or unpublished ones, preceding and
following the writing of the essay; in bookstores and libraries, where among
the shelves you can find one of the many editions and translations of the book.
Without considering that an actual catalogue of all the translations that
spread the theory by the Milanese
architect, is nowadays still missing.
In the little exhibition at the
exhibition space Gino Valle by Iuav cotonificio of Santa Marta, we staged in a deliberately
unsystematic way this proliferation of images, textual references, graphic
inventions for the covers, typefaces, alphabets and ideograms with which The architecture of the city is each
time literally handed down or betrayed. Not exhaustive, not systematic, the
exhibition wants to open a gash on the most known and abused legacy by Aldo
Rossi, providing a first overview of it.
curated by
Fernanda De Maio, Alberto Ferlenga, Patrizia Montini Zimolo
with Antonella
Indrigo and Pietro Tomasi
display
design by
Antonella Indrigo
and Pietro Tomasi
thank
to Fondazione Aldo Rossi, MAXXI Architettura,
Archivio progetti Iuav
the
exhibition is possible for the generous cooperation of Molteni&C