Giorgio Andreotta Calò stars at Pirelli HangarBicocca with the exhibition CITT�?DIMILANO

Giorgio Andreotta Calò (Venice, 1979) is the protagonist, from February 14 to July 21, 2019, of a major solo exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, entitled CITTÀDIMILANO and curated by Roberta Tenconi. Andreotta Calò, who lives and works between Italy and the Netherlands, is one of the most interesting Italian artists of recent years and represented Italy at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017). His works include sculptures, large-scale environmental installations and spatial interventions that transform architecture or entire landscapes and are often conceived to be included in a rich system of cross-references and connections between them, including through the use of natural elements dense with symbolic meanings, such as water, light and fire.

His work is rooted in some conceptual and processual practices typical of the artists of the 1960s and 1970s and then opened to new evolutions, and is the result of a long process of research into materials (from classical ones, such as bronze and wood, to more unusual ones such as caranto, the underwater clay layer on which the city of Venice stands), into processing techniques and their origins. His interest in organic materials brings his works closer to current international debates on the use and dispersion of raw materials and issues on socio-ecological changes.

An integral part of his artistic methodology is the constant reworking and reconfiguration of his works according to the geographic and cultural context in which they are exhibited: for CITTÀDIMILANO the artist focuses on his sculptural practice, presenting in close dialogue works made from 2008 to the present and here conceived as part of a single landscape, which transforms the perception of the environment and highlights the links between the works themselves.

For the occasion, Giorgio Andreotta Calò has also researched the history of the Pirelli company, specially conceiving new works that bring to light previously unpublished narratives from the past, such as that of the wreck of the steamship Città di Milano - from which the entire exhibition takes its title.

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Pictured: Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Hourglass