A photographic journey through the city, the architecture and the gaze
The installation project for Mondi in Posa at the Triennale di Milano is a reuse project that involves almost the entire exhibition design, but seeks to change everything with a few partial dismantling operations, in order to make the spaces designed for the exhibition A Journey into Biodiversity functional for a new photographic exhibition, an anthological exhibition of the work of Paolo Rosselli.
The installation works through minimal actions of opening, removal, and repositioning, maintaining its original layout but allowing the structure to change function completely.
The exhibition explores the themes of urban transformation and contemporary architecture through a series of large-format photographs by Rosselli, depicting cities around the world from the 2000s to the present day. The images highlight the changes, tensions, and contradictions of the globalized metropolis, while at the same time conveying its complexity and capacity to surprise. With an ironic gaze that distances itself from a classical vision, Rosselli's work offers a critical reinterpretation of the contemporary city and its architecture.
The two principal interventions are at both ends: two structures and two installations, closed and designed as a sort of diorama, have become permeable and have become two observation points for Paolo Rosselli's work
"Today, some people say the world is crumbling before our eyes; others think we're going through a new historical shift towards new civilizations. The fact remains that, with Polybius of Megalopolis 2,200 years ago, the idea of globalization made its way into human consciousness for the first time, in just a few lines. Thus, ancient Greece still teaches us lessons, and provides evidence that history proceeds through counter-reactions, reflections, and collisions."
Paolo Rosselli
The project is also a successful continuation of the pilot project conceived by Triennale Milano and Nolostand, which we had the honor of working on to devise a system of installations that reduces environmental impact to zero, becoming entirely circular.
Paolo Rosselli studio
Alessandro Mason, Alice Fialà, Vittoria Brugali, Pietro Lora
Nolostand
Gianluca di Ioia e studio GISTO