Two huge fantastic animals by Dario Ghibaudo arrive at Fuorisalone
On the occasion of Fuorisalone 2024, two huge fantastic animals by Dario Ghibaudo will arrive in the courtyard of Ca' Granda, the State University of Milan, the heart of the event for years.
By Redazione | 05/03/2024 11:44
Piedmontese artist Dario Ghibaudo (Cuneo, 1955) has been invited by Interni magazine, the inventor and organizer of Fuorisalone, the schedule of events held in Milan during the Salone del Mobile, to exhibit, in the 2024 edition, two large sculptures in the central courtyard of the Ca' Granda, the main campus of theState University of Milan , which, as every year, is the heart of the event.
The two sculptures, specially designed for this venue, are two fantastic animals that are the result of a visionary evolution from fish to birds. The first rises majestically on its tail-fin, soaring its prehistoric bird-like head to the sky, to a height of three meters and twenty centimeters. The second is still a large imaginary animal resting on its sea-tail and its two giant legs to defend, with its beak-like head, its egg. The footprint of this second sculpture is more than two meters by about two and a half meters high.
For several years now, Ghibaudo has been proposing his imaginary and imaginative zoo in his Museum of Unnatural History, created in 1990 and still under development: it is a project inspired by ancient scientific cataloging and imagined as a real museum divided into rooms where, through the display of fantastic and hybrid animals, Ghibaudo reflects on the human condition in an ironic key.
The two works will be on view during the dates of Fuorisalone, April 16-21, 2024.
