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Milano: at the Prada Foundation the exhibition “Paraventi: folding screens from the 17th to 21st centuries”

The exhibition will be available from October 26, 2023 to February 26, 2024.

Milano: at the Prada Foundation the exhibition “Paraventi: folding screens from the 17th to 21st centuries”.

“Screens: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries” è the wide exposure edited by Nicholas Cullinan presented by Prada Foundation a Milano from the 26 October 2023 to the 26 February 2024. The press preview It will take place Wednesday 25 October 2023. The November 2 2023 they will inaugurate two complementary exhibitions, organized by Prada with the support of Fondazione Prada at Prada Rong Zhai in Shanghai and Prada Aoyama Tokyo, which will delve into the historical legacy and contemporary interpretations of screens in Eastern contexts.

La exhibition of Milano investigate the history and interprets the meanings of these objects, retracing the trajectories of mutual contamination between East and West, the processes of hybridization between different art forms and functions, collaborations between designers and artists and, finally, the creation of new works. THE screens represent the concept of liminality and threshold between two conditions, in a literal and metaphorical sense, as they cross the barriers between different disciplines, cultures and worlds.

Milano: alla Fondazione Prada la mostra "Paraventi: folding screens from the 17th to 21st centuries".

How do you explain Nicholas Cullinan, “Painting or sculpture? Art or furnishing accessory? Utilitarian or ornamental element? Decorative, functional, architectural or theatrical? This exhibition examines with an innovative approach the questions and paradoxes surrounding the history of screens, a history of cultural migration (from East to West), of hybridization (between different art forms and functions) and of what is hidden and revealed . Our research will reveal how this history and its manifestation in the present coincide with the history of liminal objects and liminality itself, in a process of overcoming the rigid distinctions and hierarchies between the different disciplines of art and architecture, decoration of 'interiors and design'.

Il exhibition project designed by the SANAA architecture studio, founded by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, will gather in the spaces of the Podium over seventy screens. Both will be included works of great historical value and more recent works from international museums and private collections, as well as a selection of new creations specially commissioned for this project by more than fifteen international artists. To the ground floor of the Podium, curvilinear and transparent Plexiglas walls, alternating with sinuous curtains, will evoke the shapes of these objects, creating a series of spaces characterized by different lighting conditions. Within of these environments visitors will be able to meet the various thematic groups and engage with a fluid exhibition itinerary thanks to the transparency of the dividing structures. Upstairs the display will represent the entire history of the screens, presented in chronological order and arranged on shaped pedestals that will emphasize their forms, in homage to the innovative museum displays of the MASP in São Paulo, created by Lina Bo Bardi, and to SANAA's work for the Louvre-Lens museum.

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