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3 October 2023 / 23 December 2023
On October 3rd 2023, we open "L'architettura appartiene al teatro" (Architecture Belongs to the Theatre World), an exhibition by architect and designer Andrea Branzi.
As in a choreography inside an improvised theater where masks change shape and color, Branzi rediscovers the great masters of twentieth-century painting by transforming their creations in surprising ways. Puppets and marionettes, masks, puppets and marionettes tell the happy world of circus comedies and adventures.
On display is the series of drawings from which it takes its title, a body of works created in the 2000s, including the sets of Casanova (2000) and Barbablu (2002), the sculptures of the Buratti (2019-20), the drawings of the Filastrocche (2020) and the interpretations of the Maschere collection (2022-23).
Accompanying the exhibition is Archetipi, which bring together the theoretical mental models that anticipate material creation and are part of the non-obvious anthropological heritage that lies in our unconscious. In architecture, these can be traced back to primary structures whose function is not defined in relation to living, but to building.
In Branzi's view, "today, civil architecture is experiencing a crisis of credibility, in the sense that its relationship with society has gradually worn out; in turn, society is experiencing a deep crisis and is no longer able to provide value frameworks for the project." Thus archetypes can play the essential function of a repertoire to be invented anew. This section includes the previously unpublished series of drawings Torre Velasca (2023), inspired by modern Milanese architecture.
