I REMEMBER MILANO 2. Utopia of a Dystopian Childhood Carlo MAZZA GALANTI
First broadcast: Mon 01.07.2019, 11.06 Uhr MEZ
Rerun: Wed 17.07.2019, 21.00 Uhr MEZ
A Broadcast in collaboration with: Riccardo Giacconi, Enrico HOFFER, Carlo MAZZA GALANTI
In the course of his artistic investigation Vizio di forma (Form Error), Riccardo Giacconi invites on two consecutive evenings, Thu 21 and Fr 22 March 2019, each at 19.00, to an examination of the residential complex Milano 2, commissioned by Silvio Berlusconi in the 1970s and became well-known throughout the country. Invited guests are the architect Enrico Hoffer who planned the residential complex, as well as cultural journalist and literary critic Carlo Mazza Galanti who spent his childhood in Milano 2.
A broadcast in collaboration with Riccardo GIACCONI.
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Riccardo GIACCONI studied fine arts at the University IUAV of Venice. His work has been exhibited in various institutions, such as ar/ge kunst (Bolzano), MAC (Belfast), WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (Reims), tranzitdisplay (Prague), MAXXI (Rome), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin) and at the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. He was artist-in-residence at the Centre international d’art et du paysage (Vassivière, France), lugar a dudas (Cali, Colombia), MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome and La Box (Bourges). He has presented his films at several festivals, including the New York Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Visions du Réel and FID Marseille, where he won the Grand Prix of the international competition in 2015. In 2007 he co-founded the collective Blauer Hase, with which he curates the periodical publication Paesaggio and the Helicotrema festival.
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Enrico HOFFER is an Italian architect and landscape architect. From 1968 to 1990 he worked on the design, development and building of Milano 2 and Milano 3 – two “new towns” near Milan, the most ambitious real estate projects by Silvio Berlusconi. He also designed several other residential centres near Milan, and was president of the landscape commission of the municipality of Segrate.
Carlo MAZZA GALANTI is an Italian cultural journalist and literary critic. He has worked as researcher at the University of L’Aquila and Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle. As a journalist, he collaborates with several paper and online publications, including Alias, D Repubblica, IL Magazine, Esquire, Linus, Il Tascabile, NOT, Lo Straniero, Nuovi Argomenti. In some of these media he also published short narrative texts.