A Pirelli HangarBicocca la prima retrospettiva italiana di Luciano Fabro — Transcript

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1. 0:00About fifty works, some never exhibited
2. 0:02before, and the reconstruction of the
3. 0:04large environments that Luciano Fabro
4. 0:07called Habitats. Pirelli HangarBicocca
5. 0:10dedicates "Abitare lo spazio" to this
6. 0:12exponent of Arte Povera, the first
7. 0:14museum retrospective in Italy since his
8. 0:17death. An exhibition that takes
9. 0:20advantage of the large dimensions of
10. 0:22the naves to retrace 50 years of the
11. 0:24artist's research into the relationship
12. 0:26between sculpture, space, and the
13. 0:27spectator. Let's say we took advantage
14. 0:32of the dimensions of HangarBicocca to
15. 0:34be able to present works that would not
16. 0:37be possible to present in other places,
17. 0:40and to reconstruct some of Fabro's
18. 0:42habitats that, coincidentally, in the
19. 0:45case of the Rotterdam habitat behind us
20. 0:47, were more or less the same size as
21. 0:50the Hangar space; and this is a unique
22. 0:52occasion, because it is a coincidence
23. 0:56that would be difficult to repeat. We
24. 1:02worked on the installation of the
25. 1:04various works, and naturally, not so
26. 1:07much by taking into account what were
27. 1:10philological documents, but rather by
28. 1:13evaluating what this space was in which
29. 1:15they had to live. We were able to
30. 1:22reconstruct the habitats because, both
31. 1:24for Rotterdam and the others that
32. 1:26followed, we had the original documents
33. 1:29and designs, and, what's more, we had a
34. 1:32bit of fun bringing out some
35. 1:33unpublished works. The special
36. 1:38ingredient of his art was seriousness,
37. 1:42the absolute research into the very
38. 1:46problem of sculpture and art in general
39. 1:49; and as a man and also as an artist,
40. 1:56as you can see in the titles, also
41. 1:58irony. So you will also find ironic
42. 2:01elements here, even in the very serious
43. 2:04works, which also play on this dual
44. 2:07channel.
45. 2:09>> This is a historic exhibition of an
46. 2:11artist who was fundamental for the city
47. 2:13of Milan. He gave so much, he taught at
48. 2:16Brera, he founded the Casa degli
49. 2:18Artisti, but he was also fundamental
50. 2:20for generations to come of Italian
51. 2:22artists and beyond. It is an exhibition
52. 2:26that brings together almost 50 works
53. 2:28spanning a period of 40 years, more or
54. 2:30less from the early 60s to his last
55. 2:32work. We are in 2006, one year before
56. 2:35the artist's death, but these are works
57. 2:38that still speak to us and speak to,
58. 2:41let's say, us today. For Luciano Fabro,
59. 2:44his entire body of work, which is very
60. 2:46diverse, was always very important. He
61. 2:48participated, he was one of the artists
62. 2:50of the Arte Povera group, but he was
63. 2:51always the least recognizable. He broke
64. 2:54away almost immediately and truly had a
65. 2:56development, an absolutely incredible
66. 2:59practice; but the whole thread, let's
67. 3:01say, the common thread of his work is
68. 3:03this incessant reflection on language
69. 3:06and the meaning of sculpture, of art,
70. 3:08but above all of the relationship
71. 3:10between the space that surrounds us,
72. 3:13those who look at the work, and the
73. 3:15work itself. Therefore, this moment of
74. 3:18relationship. And the exhibition
75. 3:21retraces this journey a bit, doing so
76. 3:23with a variety of works and, in
77. 3:25particular, focusing at its heart on
78. 3:27his research into what he called the "
79. 3:29habitat"; therefore, this environment
80. 3:31that can also contain other works, but
81. 3:34which he conceived as a place for
82. 3:36stimulating the senses and the
83. 3:37intellect, a place to ask questions,
84. 3:40but also to feel at ease and enjoy the
85. 3:42works. Yeah.