Against the backdrop of a year that the MAN of Nuoro has dedicated to the dialogue between art and architecture, after the homage to the Odessa staircase and the workshops with the architecture universities of Cagliari, Alghero and Palermo, a new, specifically designed project is now taking shape for the museum spaces.
The exhibition Il Resto dell’Alba was born from a theoretical comparison between the artist Patrick Tuttofuoco, the museographer curator Maddalena d’Alfonso and the architect Giovanni de Niederhäusern, vice president of Pininfarina Architettura. Il Resto dell’Alba is an enveloping work that interprets the new frontier of the virtual by giving a physical body to digital hypertechnology.
The art space, in fact, is seen as an experiential place generated with virtual prototyping tools, where space and public integrate and activate each other, looking at the time of art: on the one hand the historical, past, ideally represented from a Nuragic sculpture, with all its mythical and absolute implications at the same time, as an eternal sign of an iconic presence of our origins, “where we come from”, our archaic heritage; on the other hand, that of the digital future, the “where we are going” symbolized by the incorporeal and auroral imagery of the epiphanic light of a double sun, a perspective and, at the same time, a new genesis, inspired by the classic iconography of the rising sun, of anarchist origin, hope of a bright future, allegory of regeneration and a new sense of man’s inhabitation on earth, as theorized by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bruno Taut or Martin Heidegger. All this is the basis of a powerful and utopian design form, a work that can be traversed on an allegorical journey, where the experience is sublimated into the dimension of the symbol.
The environment designed with generative parametric design tools is entirely made of aluminum cut with a technique called mesh clustering, to optimize the use of the material, numerical control manufacturing and dry assembly. This will allow, at the end of the exhibition, to dismantle the work and reuse the material in the recycling chain. The double sun is an object-form composed of the incipient sphere and its double, which is also a luminous shadow, an inconceivable short circuit on the question of the source of light and heat. The exhibition, in the dialogue between art, architecture and museography, offers the public a personal experience, in which the dilation of the moment of dawn crystallizes a state of waiting, once suspended and places the observer faced with questions about a future increasingly unnatural but with a view to a virtuous reciprocity between nature and technology. Between past and future, the visitor embodies the present. The museographic landscape taken from the digital imagery of the metaverse makes us perceive the fascination of the discomfort of being too close to the sun. A sensation that generates reflection on major common and current themes, to be addressed with ever greater urgency: from the most obvious, relating to climate change, to those of research on design to support the reduction of waste and on raw materials.
With this exhibition, MAN promotes sharing on fundamental topics, from issues of social sustainability to those of inclusion, through the coexistence of art, artifice and humanity in an auroral place. And it asks the public important questions: what intricate relationship is being established between our existence in the digital world and physical presence? What places and spaces should we think of for inclusiveness and to raise awareness of contingent issues for building the future?
Pininfarina Architecture
A global icon of Italian style, Pininfarina is known for its unrivaled ability to create timeless works, based on its values ​​of Technology and Beauty. Founded in Italy in 1930, Pininfarina today has offices around the world, with a design scope that includes transportation, industrial design, architecture/interiors and automotive design. Pininfarina’s most recent projects in the Architecture division span geographical locations such as Turkey (the New Control Tower of Istanbul airport), the United States (the 1100 Millecento luxury condominium in Miami), Brazil (Cyrela, Vitra and Yachthouse , and the twin towers of Balneario Camboriu), Italy (Juventus Stadium in Turin, The New Stauffer Center for Strings in Cremona, Urban Lounge in Milan). Pininfarina Architettura has also won numerous international architecture awards, recently the Green Good Design Award 2022 for Urban Lounge, the American Architecture Award 2020 with Yachthouse, the International Architecture Award 2020 for Sixty6 and the Red Dot Award 2019 for the City of Miami Bus Shelter Designs. With offices in Turin, Milan,. Miami, New York and Shanghi, Pininfarina Architecture works with a team of 80 professionals trained at the most important academic institutions and research centers in the world and with multidisciplinary backgrounds including architecture, engineering, social sciences and interaction design, linked together through professional experiences. Project team: Giovanni de Niederhausern, Gianni Giuffrida, Simona Penna, Marco Caprani, Giuseppe Conti, Alessandro Mimiola, Silvia Sereno Regis, Giacomo Andreolli.
Patrick Tuttofuoco (Milan, 1974) Lives and works in Milan
Patrick Tuttofuoco’s artistic work is conceived as a dialogue between individuals and their ability to transform the environment they inhabit, exploring notions of community and social integration in order to combine immediate sensorial attraction with the power to trigger profound theoretical responses. Tuttofuoco mixes Modernism and Pop; he pushes the figurative into the abstract, using man as a paradigm of existence, as the matrix and unit of measurement of reality. From this interpretative and cognitive process, infinite versions of man and the context of his existence are produced, from which forms capable of animating the sculptures are generated. Patrick Tuttofuoco participated in the 50th Venice Biennale (2003), Manifesta 5 (2004), the 6th Shanghai Biennale (2006) and the 10th Havana Biennial (2009). His works have been exhibited in various institutions such as the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, (Turin 2006), the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2008) and Casa Italia, Pyeongchang (2018). In 2017 he was selected by the Italian Council thanks to the ZERO project presented in Rimini, Berlin and Bologna (2018).
Maddalena d’Alfonso (1972) Lives and works in Milan.
Maddalena d’Alfonso is an architect, essayist and researcher. He obtained the qualification of associate professor in 2017 after his PhD in interior architecture and museography in 2004. He has applied his aptitude for combining research activity with museographic culture in the conception and planning of exhibitions and cultural programs for public institutions, foundations and museums. D’Alfonso has been a member of the scientific council of ICAMT – the International Committee for Architecture and Museum Techniques of ICOM since 2019. The exhibition Il Paesaggio dei Diritti – Photographing the Constitution, which she conceived and curated for the Municipality of Milan, received the representation medal from the President of the Italian Republic in 2017 and her book Warm Modernity (Silvana 2016) received the Red Dot Award. In 2019 he founded the Md’A Design Agency to offer its work network services, design and interdisciplinary activities by bringing together architecture, curation and museum management to implement sustainable solutions for architecture and culture underlining accessibility issues and democracy of public and collective spaces.
Partner of the Materea installation for computational processing and production service. www.materea.industries
Nieder, for processing, shipping and installation www.nieder.it
Alpewa and Prefa for the supply of PREFA natural aluminum sheets and rivets www.alpewa.com – www.prefa.it
Erco For lighting consultancy and the supply of lighting fixtures. www.erco.com
Brianza Plastica www.brianzaplastica.it
Project financed under the Pnrr funds for accessibility
