Diari in attesa • Book launch
CURATED BY
Gennaro Castellano & Reporting System
10.11.2008 | 18.00
Monday, November 10 at 6:00 PM at DOCVA Documentation Center for Visual Arts, Diari in attesa will be presented, a publication and project curated by Gennaro Castellano & Reporting System, created for Numero Due of inContemporanea la rete dell'arte, a project promoted by the Province of Milan.
Participants in the project include:
Daniela Benelli, Culture, Culture and Integration Councillor of the Province of Milan
Stefano Boeri, Head of Master Plan Isola
Manfredi Catella, CEO of Hines Italia
Isabella Inti, Associazione Cantieri Isola
Fulvio Irace, Architectural theorist and columnist for il Sole 24 ore
Andreas Kipar, Landscape architect, responsible for the Porta Nuova project
Carlo Masseroli, Councillor for Territorial Development of the Municipality of Milan
Cesar Pelli, Head of Master Plan Garibaldi
Kelly Russel, General Director of Fondazione Riccardo Catella
Gabi Scardi, Expert in public art and curator
Marianella Sclavi, Sociologist specialized in active listening
Massimo Simonetta, Director of Ancitel Lombardia
Gennaro Castellano, Marianna d'Ovidio, Andreas Kipar, Gabi Scardi, and Marianella Sclavi will discuss with the public some of the dynamics behind the project, between contemporary art, landscape architecture, and urban sociology.
Diari in attesa is a graphic novel intertwining everyday scenes, memories, and interviews portraying a Milan in transformation, emblematic of contemporary metropolitan complexity.
Diari in attesa is a comic story and a research and experimentation path reflecting new urban geographies, particularly those of the recently approved Porta Nuova project, involving the Garibaldi-Isola-Varesine neighborhoods.
Diari in attesa tells of a major change that the entire city has been talking about for years, focusing on a crucial moment: the opening of the construction sites.
Diari in attesa centers the narration on the private and public perception of the transformation of places and on the form that the new takes in daily experience and in the reflections of stakeholders, while awaiting the points of view expressed in the volume to be concretely verified.
Page after page, strip after strip, characters who closely live the mutation of the neighborhoods speak: residents, artists, urban planners, public administration, investors, opinion leaders who shape a mosaic of opinions and leave open doors for further explorations that will take place as the territorial transformation takes shape.
Diari in attesa. Nuove geografie urbane Garibaldi-Isola-Varesine. Milano parte prima
Curated by Gennaro Castellano and Reporting System
96 pp., paperback with flaps, 20 x 26 cm, 16 color plates, 24 comic strips
Officina Libraria, Milan 2008
ISBN 978-88-89854-372
€16.00
Reporting System
Reporting System is a dynamic interdisciplinary platform for contemporary art that promotes creative processes in public space. Founded in 2004 by Gennaro Castellano, artist and artistic director, and Antonella Annecchiarico, public manager, it has been active since 1999 to create a synergistic network among artists, intellectuals, cultural institutions, and public function holders with the aim of creating a convergence of vision and intentions on issues concerning society, territory, relationships between individuals, and intercultural dynamics.
info [at] reportingsystem-arte.net