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april 12, 2022 - Living Divani

SOLILOQUI: MILANO

Gianluca Vassallo & #livingdivani.

Photo project and video installation: #gianlucavassallo.

Set up project: Piero Lissoni.

From Friday April 8th to Saturday May 21st, the exhibition "Soliloqui:Milano" by #gianlucavassallo is on stage at the #livingdivani Gallery in Corso Monforte 20. The urban and human landscape coexist in the author's narrative, giving the observer the opportunity to lightly touch others’ everyday life, almost feel the smell of the living, the talks on current times, deadlines, desires, memories that distract their eyes from the austere and stratified beauty of a metropolis that always unfolds, that always indicates a way to the future, a way of feeling the past.

A photographic presentation that does not end, but on the contrary finds its development in a video project: the Frog armchairs designed by Piero Lissoni for #livingdivani become the means to complete Vassallo's story. The seats liven up; they are placed in different contexts around the city, and the story becomes fluid: passers-by interact with the product and the space, and the artist captures the moments, the actions and the emotions.

"I remember as a boy, that Milan was already a woman. And I remember feeling confused, with my southern body and Sardinian eyes, walking amid a rigour that kept me on alert and silent, fighting the cold, telling me anything but blue, the opposite of the sea, as in the shadow of certain poetry, in the light of certain shoulders, in a beauty that you feel, without understanding, just because it is not time. Thirty years have passed since then and Milan is still a woman that, perhaps, was never a girl. And I am still the fool who stares at her in confusion, waiting to discover her eyes. To carry them into the world, to become a man”.

Gianluca Vassallo

"Milan seen through Gianluca’s lens and the citizens' eyes on his works through the large windows of the #livingdivani Gallery. It is in this game of gazes that the space expresses its potential as a stage for art and culture: a sort of transparent gallery open to the city, to start a dialogue with other creative disciplines".

Carola Bestetti, CEO Living Divani

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