Dressing in chairs - Interni Magazine

In a traveling performance, Gianni Pettena's chairs crossed the city of Florence starting from the Tobacco Factory, becoming tools - corporeal - of integration

Thursday 10 March the chairs of Gianni Pettena, exponent of Florentine radical design, crossed the city of Florence starting from Piazza dell'Orologio in Manifattura Tabacchi to evoke - and repeat for the tenth time - la performance Vestirsi di sedie (Dressing in chairs), conducted, in single file, in 1971 by ten students of the designer at Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

The chairs have crossed the city becoming tools suitable for a possible integration. Disjointed if not worn, they signal the need for a bodily presence to make sense . At the same time as the traveling exhibition, the public was invited to participate in a talk with the artist and designer.

Public art, sharing, interdisciplinarity and inclusiveness

Public Program 2022 of NAM-Not A Museum, the Manifattura Tabacchi project dedicated to the research, production and sharing of artistic practices in the name of interdisciplinarity, proposes a series of cultural events (meetings, guided tours, workshops, musical and performance events) open to the public and free, which highlight the transversal dimension of contemporary art, contaminated by other languages and disciplines.