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Small works of art for a great project
Works by 50 authors for the hospice of Villa Sclopis
Exhibition
Spazio FMG per l'Architettura
Milan, Via Bergognone 27
15-24 November 2007
Auction
Triennale
Milano, Via Alemagna 6
27 November 2007
Lo Spazio – promoted by Iris Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti in collaboration with Corriere della Sera with the support of Milan Municipality – has exhibited designs, study models, prototypes and works donated by more than 50 renowned architects and designers, in order to collect funds necessary for the completion of the hospice, Villa Sclopis in Salerano (Turin). These works were up for auction on the 27 November at the Triennale in Milan.
All the proceeds was donated to Associazione Casainsieme, the organisation responsible for the creation of Villa Sclopis.
The project for the conversion and restructuring of the Villa, developed voluntarily by Arch. Michele De Lucchi, gives the right quarters for the treatment of the terminally ill in the final phase, as was much desired by a group of voluntary doctors from the organization, Associazione Casainsieme ONLUS in Salerano.
« The villa, the hospice, the new hall and the park now appear as a homogeneous complex, discrete and sensitive, as one would deem necessary for a place where one works to make the concept of death less distant than that of life». As in the words of Michele De Lucchi, the spirit which has accompanied the creation of the hospice and which has involved many people willing to donate one of their works for the completion of this project.
«The idea of organizing an exhibition and then an auction came to me after having listened to Michele De Lucchi telling the story of Villa Sclopis», comments Luca Molinari. «This is how I decided to involve Italian and international designers, asking them to donate a work, a design, a model, a testimony of their work.»
Iris Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti, participate by welcoming projects, considering them a concrete example, significant in how architecture can become a means for important social values.
"Small works of art for a great project" has collected works by: (in alphaetical order)
2a+p, 5+1AA, Alessandro Anselmi, Asymptote, Martine Bedin, Cini Boeri, Boeri Studio, Bolles+Wilson, Mario Botta, Gianni Brughieri, Andrea Branzi, Francesco Cellini, David Chipperfield, Aldo Cibic, Antonio Citterio, Jo Coenen, Michele De Lucchi, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Naoto Fukasawa, Massimiliano Fuksas, Cherubino Gambardella, Danilo Guerri, Alessandro Guerriero, Giulio Iacchetti, Ian+, James Irvine, Aimaro Isola, Arata Isozaki, Kengo Kuma, Shiro Kuramata, Ferruccio Lariani, Ma0, Enzo Mari, Ingo Maurer, Alberto Meda, Alessandro Mendini, Metrogramma, Angelo Micheli, Antonio Monestiroli, Pietro Carlo Pellegrini, Dominique Perrault, Renzo Piano, piuarch, Franco Purini, Franco Raggi, Italo Rota, Sauerbruch & Hutton, Alessandro Scandurra, Beniamino Servino, Piotr Sierakowski, Studio Archea, George J. Sowden, Matteo Thun, Marco Zanuso, Cino Zucchi.
"Small works of art for a great project" is a project by Luca Molinari and Simona Galateo in collaboration with Studio aMDL: namely Mara Corradi, Monica Del Torchio, Mercedes Jean Ruiz.
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