Maxxi celebrates Gio Ponti
From Milan's Pirelli skyscraper to Caracas' Villa Planchart, from the Hotel Parco dei Principi in Sorrento to the Italian Institute of Culture in Stockholm, from the Taranto Cathedral to the Denver Art Museum. With its architecture, has been around the world becoming a reference point for entire generations and anticipating the tones of today's sensibility. And it is to him that, forty years after his death, the Maxxi National Museum of the Arts of the 21st century dedicates a wide-ranging retrospective of international interest.
It is "Gio Ponti - loving architecture": an exhibition that analyzes the role of architect of the famous Milanese creative emphasizing his great ability foreshadowing spaces and motifs of contemporary architectural research, from dematerialization facades to the conception of a green city up to the flexibility of domestic spaces. Curated by Maristella Casciato and Fulvio Irace, the exhibition comes to life through dozens of original models, drawings, magazines, great design classics and photographs by modern authors.
The result is an immersive and scenic set-up that through eight sections suggests the idea of the master's space - fluid, dynamic, colorful - and tells his great creative flair. Architect, designer, art director, writer, poet and critic, Gio Ponti was, in fact, an artist at 360 degrees. "Celebrating its greatness means immersing itself in a legacy that has no equal in versatility, flair, and application," comments Maxxi Foundation president Giovanna Melandri. "Private buildings and public commission, companies and places of study, objects of daily use and furniture of offices and ships, cathedrals and museums, alternate in a research, never dogmatic or ideological, in which classicism and modernity, natural landscape and urban horizon, the social vocation of space and the preservation of beauty."
A career full of successes and suggestions, unique in the history of Italian architecture of the twentieth century, which Maxxi has been able to tell thanks to a long research work and collaboration with Gio Ponti Archives and CSAC - Center for Studies and Archive of the University of Parma communication - which preserves Gio Ponti's professional archive. "This exhibition is an intense retrospective, consonant to a figure to whom the national community has an open debt", concludes Giovanna Melandri. "We have a duty of gratitude, rediscovery, and enhancement to him."
Gio Ponti. Loving architecture
Rome, Maxxi Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo
www.maxxi.art - www.gioponti.org
Article written for Mohd and signed by Ilenia Carlesimo, La Repubblica contributor journalist.
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