COURTYARD OF HONOR SUBPORCH, UNIVERSITY OF MILAN - As a place of passage, rest and meeting, where cultural exchanges took place between people from different latitudes, the caravanserai is a symbol of the spread of ideas.
“Here, unprecedented influences have been triggered between civilizations, from which a fruitful hybridization and fascinating forms of art have arisen. Encounters, mingling, reuse: founding values in a historical moment like this. There is no greater Cross Vision than a willingness to be receptive, an aptitude for embracing positive synergies, for hospitality.”
For this installation, Lorenzo Palmeri has developed the concept of ‘mixing’, designing a space specifically for the transit and reception of those who happen to be passing through the portico of the Cortile d’Onore. For its creation, he chose Cosmolite® from Stone Italiana, “a composite material, capable of giving new life to waste elements in a single beneficial output.”