Four Seasons
New Manhez, Moscow, 2013
Curator: Luca Zevi
Art Direction: Monica Maggioni, Dario Curatolo
Organization: Francesco Orofino, Beatrice Fumarola
Promoter: Istituto Italiano per la Cultura, Mosca
with: Anastasia Albokrinova
Collaborator: Anita Sala
Surface: 980sm
“Four Seasons” is an updated and synthetic version of part of the contents of the Italian Pavilion, curated by Luca Zevi and presented during the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale. The new layout is proposed as a path that winds through different themes and spaces. A single platform/walkway guides visitors through a story that integrates architecture, environment, industry and economy. Poor materials (untreated MDF and raw woods) were used to create the installation. In “Four Seasons” these materials are brought to the surface and “redeemed” by an assembly technique and a graphic treatment that makes their material qualities and warm tones prevail.
In this way it is possible to create a path that combines the naturalness of the setting (untreated wood) and the technology of the contents.