Exhibitions

The performance of living by Alessandro Mendini

Abstract

The text proposes a new nuance of domestic design conducted by Alessandro Mendini, an architect who translates an intimist elaboration of domestic environments into settings between reality and fantasy. The imaginative places he conceived synthesize an identity-based design philosophy on the space of everyday living. However, these are not isolated artistic episodes: the methodology, seemingly naive toward the surrounding context, conceals years of deep critical analysis of the Milanese art scene of those years. They are exhibition spaces belonging to a cultural Milky Way that began with the radical era and then continued with post-modernism.