From industrial design to photography, from reflections on the landscape to artistic experiments on the theme of identity and self-determination to fashion in its most creative sense and capable of embracing different worlds, the autumn of exhibitions is very rich.
We have chosen six to wander through the imagination, the history of costume and communications, architecture and art, between Italy, Asia and Europe, to build a small kaleidoscope of contemporaneity.
It begins with a journey into the vintage world of radios in an exhibition at the ADI Design Museum in Milan, and then embarks on a journey into the journey photographed by Luigi Ghirri (at the MASI in Lugano), the imaginative and almost lysergic one of Pierre-Yves Le Duc, who combines ink stains with classical monuments (at the Maja Gallery in Rome), up to the one proposed in Anacapri by the new edition of the Landscape Festival.
From Asia instead come the works around being in a place, the concept of living, belonging and self-determination in a world of strong migrations (at the Elpis Foundation), while the Triennale in Milan offers an in-depth look at the figure of Elio Fiorucci and his eclectic, pop and super creative idea of fashion. Happy reading.
Radio Design: the aesthetic evolution of radio devices, ADI Design Museum, Milan, from 5 to 27 September (then at the Fondazione Cirulli in Bologna from 4 to 31 October).
What is the meaning of design for radio? The answer is in this exhibition, a real journey into the evolution of radio technology and the design that welcomes it, with over fifty pieces from the private collection of Davide Vercelli, engineer, designer and curator.
We proceed by thematic areas, encountering Bakelite devices, the stories of important companies such as Braun, Ducati and Brionvega and great designers such as the Castiglioni brothers, Zanuso and Sapper, Le Corbusier, Starck, Pantom and Loewy. Then there are the different technological advances from transistors to the miniaturization of products increasingly accessible to all with the most modern plastics and technopolymers.
We also talk about the socio-cultural role of the radio, from the 1930s to today: from an instrument of propaganda and national unity to the modernist radio resulting from the competition launched by Gio Ponti, up to the Space Age of the 1970s.
Who will like it: radio amateurs and lovers of industrial design
Useful information: ADI Designa Museum, Piazza Compasso d’Oro 1, Milan, open Monday to Sunday from 10:30 am to 8:00 pm; Fondazione Cirulli, Via Emilia 275, San Lazzaro di Savena, can be visited by appointment.
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