La Milan Triennale on the occasion of BookCity, «la Lettura» and the Corriere della Sera Foundation are together for an exhibition dedicated to Poetry, one of the languages that distinguishes the pages of the cultural insert.
Poetry is exhibited in a form characterized by contamination of forms and contents: figurative artists in dialogue with the verses of authors of yesterday and today, visual poems, installations, performances, readings, poetry slam.
Poetry belongs to everyone, intends to offer the visitor a journey with works by important international artists such as: Jan Fabre, Giosetta Fioroni, Mimmo Jodice, Anselm Kiefer, Joseph Kosuth, Mimmo Paladino, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Ettore Spalletti, inspired by the poetry leads to the installation «La Serra dei Poets» conceived by the writer (and architect) Sandro Veronesi; and, then, from a show by Simone Savogin, winner of the Italian championship of poetry slam in 2015 and 2016, leads to the stories of the B.Livers (boys veterans or still engaged in battles with serious illnesses) told by slam poets of the collective Generazione Disagio.
Furthermore, the exhibition will also be a moment to remember the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Antonio Porta (1935-1989), poet, literary critic of the «Corriere della Sera». But also covers, illustrations, photographs, visual data, graphic novels. The project aims to stage contemporary forms of dialogue between journalism, art and communication tools.
Poetry belongs to everyone also features four side events:
Friday 15 November 2019, 18.30pm, during the inauguration: poetic incursions by de The Poetry Menu;
Friday 15 November 2019, 21.00 pm, in the Hall of Honor of the Triennale: Via!, show by and with Simone Savogin;
Sunday 17 November 2019, 16.00 hours, in the Buzzati Room: Reading #thepoetryisforall with Sandro Veronesi, Cees Nooteboom interviewed by Alessandra Iadicicco, the B.Livers led by Generazione Disagio, Stefano Bollani; leads Alessia Rastelli;
Sunday 1 December 2019, 16.00 hours, at the Triennale: the poetic performance Do you B.Live in Poetry? by B.Livers and Generazione Disagio.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog edited by Antonio Troiano and Gianluigi Colin and published by the Corriere della Sera Foundation, which includes texts and critical contributions by Luciano Fontana, Franco Achilli, B.Livers, Cecilia Bressanelli, Francesco Cevasco, Gianluigi Colin, Paolo Di Stefano, Francesco Dondina, Roberto Galaverni, Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, Pierenrico Ratto, Vincenzo Trione, Antonio Troiano, Sandro Veronesi.
Cover image: exhibition logo created by Gianluigi Colin
