Hangar Bicocca

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Dec 2017
Courtesy of Hangar Bicocca
Lately is an exhibition of Lucio Fontana held at Hangar Bicocca.  Lucio Fontana (Rosario, Argentina 1899 - Varese Italy 1968) is a pioneer of installation art.  He dedicated his time to investigate concepts of space, light, the void and the cosmos.  His works transformed the two-dimensionality of painting, sculpture with new perspectives and movements.

Courtesy of Hangar Bicocca
Now (21 Sep 17 - 25 Feb 18) Hangar Bicocca presents the reconstruction of Fonana's Ambienti spaziali (Spatial Environments) exhibition works, designed in the last 1940s which were almost destroyed after the exhibition.

 


October 2016


For more than a century ago - beginning in 1886 - thousands of steelworkers gathered at Hangar Bicocca to begin their workday.  Key names are Ernesto Breda and Pirelli ,Things have changed a lot. Today, the once manufacturing place has turned to host exhibitions, art labs and performances. I was nearby the first time in 2010, then 2015 for an exhibition of the Double Bind and Around by Juan Munoz and lately another exhibition of a Japanese artist.   All exhibitions at Hangar Bicocca are free.

Art shown here is exclusively contemporary. Back to 2010 when I passed by there stood an art piece (Sequenza / Sequence) by Fausto Melotti, an iron sculpture in front at the entrance to the Breda steel factory.


I was amazed by the unique exhibition of the Seven Heavenly Palaces by Anselm Kiefer.  Seven towers built with reinforced cement and lead, stand in the darkness. Layer stand over another and build up the height. They look fragile, with risk of falling down. But they are strong and cool.  They attract your eyes on them but a sense of scare and distance rises from the heart.


I saw the Seven Heavenly Palaces twice.   The second time I spent more time on it and took more photos.  It has the glamour to pull you closer and like it more if you get closer to it.  They will stay at Hangar Bicocca permanently. So, take your chance to visit it and allow yourself time to appreciate them.


The exhibition has recently been enriched with five large paintings.  Here are some.

Cette obscure clarté qui tombe des étoiles

Alchemie
Die deutsche Heilslinie
There are many many names on Die deutsche Heilslinie. Some are German thinkers, like Kant, Karl Marx.    The city seems far but yet close.  A lonely man is standing on the opposite shore with a rainbow in front.  Does it stand for hope?




There was a Japanese artist's exhibition, Situation from Kishio Suga (a sculptor and installation artist), when I visited the second time.   His works are very welcome and priced high.  But for me, they are abstract.

 
 
Beware on the exhibition hours:

Thursday to Sunday: 10 am to 10 pm; rest of the time: closed


Location: Via Chiese, 2, 20126 Milano, Italy

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