The project follows the theme "Absorbing Modernity 1914/2014” suggested by Koolhaas
Cino Zucchi to present grafting of national architecture at Padiglione Italia
INNESTI/GRAFTING al Padiglione Italia durante la 14. Esposizione Internazionale di Architettura a Venezia
E. Bramati
01/04/2014
Venice - On March 31st the MiBACT has officially presented the main theme of the Padiglione Italia in the next Venice Architecture Biennale, which will be open from June 7th to November 23rd, 2014.
INNESTI/GRAFTING is the title chosen by its curator, architect Cino Zucchi, to develop the general theme suggested by Rem Koolhaas to the national pavilions. "Absorbing Modernity 1914/2014” represents an invitation to observe the process that lead to the current global architecture, with its homogeneous and atopic characters. It identifies the resistance and/or the peculiar features that modernity has opposed to real or alleged "national identities".
According to Cino Zucchi, Italian architecture from WWI shows and "atypical modernity", represented by the ability of reading and including previous conditions through continuous metamorphosis.
Grafting, then, is the leitmotiv of our architecture across the centuries, and appears both in the projects displayed and in the exhibition itinerary. Here, one could not find the idea of a linear evolution, but the study of single episodes connected by unexpected relations. The city of Milan, which will host the Expo 2015, is the best example of this "workshop of modernity", with all the architecture and urban events that occurred there in the last century.
Through various architecture collages, the pavilion will display the variety and the stratifications of the Italian landscape, and the ability of designers to read the signs of the past. A group of "postcards" signed by foreign architects will show how this peculiar condition is considered abroad.
Besides them, Cino Zucchi designed two works of grafting for the Arsenale: a large portal at the entrance, next to the Gaggiandre, and a long bench/sculpture at the end, in the Giardino delle Vergini.
The Padiglione Italia also launched a public invitation, aimed at collecting videos containing interpretations of places of collective life in Italy. After the selection, some of them will be included in the work "Paesaggi Abitati", curated by Studio Azzurro, and they will research the interactions and the adaptations between man and the transformations imposed by architecture.
INNESTI/GRAFTING is the title chosen by its curator, architect Cino Zucchi, to develop the general theme suggested by Rem Koolhaas to the national pavilions. "Absorbing Modernity 1914/2014” represents an invitation to observe the process that lead to the current global architecture, with its homogeneous and atopic characters. It identifies the resistance and/or the peculiar features that modernity has opposed to real or alleged "national identities".
According to Cino Zucchi, Italian architecture from WWI shows and "atypical modernity", represented by the ability of reading and including previous conditions through continuous metamorphosis.
Grafting, then, is the leitmotiv of our architecture across the centuries, and appears both in the projects displayed and in the exhibition itinerary. Here, one could not find the idea of a linear evolution, but the study of single episodes connected by unexpected relations. The city of Milan, which will host the Expo 2015, is the best example of this "workshop of modernity", with all the architecture and urban events that occurred there in the last century.
Through various architecture collages, the pavilion will display the variety and the stratifications of the Italian landscape, and the ability of designers to read the signs of the past. A group of "postcards" signed by foreign architects will show how this peculiar condition is considered abroad.
Besides them, Cino Zucchi designed two works of grafting for the Arsenale: a large portal at the entrance, next to the Gaggiandre, and a long bench/sculpture at the end, in the Giardino delle Vergini.
The Padiglione Italia also launched a public invitation, aimed at collecting videos containing interpretations of places of collective life in Italy. After the selection, some of them will be included in the work "Paesaggi Abitati", curated by Studio Azzurro, and they will research the interactions and the adaptations between man and the transformations imposed by architecture.
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