Bob Wilson, Pedro Almodóvar, Paolo Sorrentino and Rossy de Palma … This spring, as world headlines remain turbulent, the International Furniture Fair of Milan acquires a cinematographic touch. Like the Homo Faber Biennial of Artisanal Crafts, which, in September 2024 in Venice, understood its artistic director to the Italian director Luca Guadagnino, several film legends were invited to love this 63RD Salone del Mobile edition: a dual event, with a professional fair known as “La Fiera” on the outskirts of Milan, and a “design week” called “Fuorisalone” in the center of the city, open until Sunday, April 13.
American director and playwright Robert Wilson, 83, began the festivities on Sunday, April 6, with an installation that combines lights, music and feet titled Mother. Sacrificed “a new vision” or the Pietà RondaniniA marble sculpture of a Virgin who held the Swan song of Christ-Michelangelo (1475-1564), what a height unfinished when he died 88 years in the castle of Sforza until May 18.
On Tuesday, April 8, on the opening day of the highly commercial FIERA, which in 2024 welcomed 370,000 international visitors and included this year’s Biennial Eurolule dedicated to lighting, the Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino marked the tone. The director of The great beauty and PARTAGE Fixed exhibition spaces transformed with The attetic dolce (“The Sweet Wait”), a hypnotic installation that allows visitors to listen to their own breathing and appreciate the passage of time accompanied by a sound band of heartbeat. A precious idea to claim airport runners, train stations and others not places.
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