The next two years of the museum foundation of Via Chiese 2 in Milan – born in 2004 and relaunched in 2012 by Pirelli who has been its founding member since its inception – will present eight solo exhibitions dedicated to eight international artists and aims to introduce visitors to personalities of different origins, generations and cultures, capable of offering new visions of world through a plurality of themes.
The differences between the artists are only related to their countries of residence, but also to their heterogeneous origins – they are artists from Italy, India, Spain, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, China, Algeria – and their cultures. The geographically wide-ranging offering will also embrace a range of different mediums such as sculpture, installation, video and film.
The programming of the next 24 months of Pirelli HangarBicocca was presented yesterday by its president, Marco Tronchetti Provera, and by Vicente Todolí, artistic director of the Milanese institution.
In the Navate space there will be: Sheela Gowda (Bhadravati, Karnataka, India, 1957), Cerith Wyn Evans (Llanelli, Wales, United Kingdom, 1958), Chen Zhen (Shanghai, 1955 - Paris, 2000) and Steve McQueen (London, 1969). In the space of the Shed: Giorgio Andreotta Calò (Venice, 1979), Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (Barcelona, 1977), Trisha Baga (Venice, Florida, USA, 1985) and Neïl Beloufa (Paris, 1985).
"In Pirelli HangarBicocca we realize international website-specific where the works become part of an unaltered industrial context. In the Navate (5.500 m1.400) they exhibit more historicized artists, in the Shed (XNUMX mXNUMX) younger or "mid-career" artists, presenting personal exhibitions that allow the visitor to explore their themes in depth. We will continue to propose exhibitions designed entirely for these spaces, without referring to pre-established models, but committing ourselves to creating new exhibition models. For the next two years we have conceived a program with artists from different countries, capable of bringing new, interesting perspectives and probably ahead of our times” explained Vicente Todolí.
In line with Pirelli HangarBicocca's mission to make art accessible to all, summed up in the hashtag #ArtToThePeople that many of its visitors have now made their own, access to the exhibitions will remain completely free and the programming will be accompanied by extensive dissemination work, carried out through the production of specific guides to the exhibitions, the editorial activity which foresees the publication of a catalog for each exhibition and the activity of the cultural mediators present in the rooms and available to discuss the work of the artists.
It will complete the 2019 and 2020 proposal the Public Program, a cultural schedule of conversations, moments of study, film and video screenings, including musical projects commissioned and created in dialogue with the exhibitions and artists. The activities for the public will also include special visits dedicated to deepening historical-artistic themes related to the exhibitions. Pirelli HangarBicocca will also expand the proposals and activities conceived by the Education Department dedicated to the younger public and families.
On average, each year Pirelli HangarBicocca attracts 260.000 visitors, organizes 40 cultural events and involves 10.000 children and CHILDREN with the activities of the Educational Department aimed at families and students, through 600 laboratories.
