From March 31 to July 31, 2022, BUILDING presents the exhibition Nests in Milan, dedicated to the Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata (Hokkaido, 1953). The exhibition is curated by Antonella Soldaini, and is realized in collaboration with the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, the Pinacoteca di Brera, the Fondazione Cariplo and the Grand Hotel et de Milan.
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Tadashi Kawamata and the site-specific interventions
Known worldwide for his multidisciplinary projects, Tadashi Kawamata presents a series of installations created specifically for this occasion for the first time in Milan. These are site-specific interventions in wood, which will take place in the interior spaces of BUILDING and on its facade, and in the exterior spaces of other buildings in the Brera area. Crossing the boundaries of closed and delimited places, Kawamata’s interventions enlarge the area of intervention to an entire portion of the city’s urban fabric. In this specific case, the object of the interventions is architecture with a particular value of the town of Milan. Gradually taking possession of the internal and external spaces of the buildings, such as facades, balconies, roofs, a series of constructions made with a weave of wooden planks form an inextricable grid, apparently lightweight but with a solid structure. Kawamata, therefore, solicits a different reading and interpretation of their appearance and meaning. All the interventions share a single theme, the nest. It is a subject with a strong symbolic character that Kawamata began to investigate in 1998 when his constructions visually approached to represent a nest. A primordial and primitive architectural element with a simple form acquires even more value in dialogue with complex architecture rich in cultural stratifications. Building-Gallery.com
Tadashi Kawamata. Nests in Milan
curated by Antonella Soldaini
March 31st-July 23rd 2022
BUILDING Gallery
via Monte di Pietà 23, Milan
