Since 2002, the Nicola Trussardi Foundation has become famous with the entrance of Massimiliano Gioni, like the new artistic director, giving a fresh new voice to this place.
Two years later, in 2004, Maurizio Cattelan shows three hanged children, an old oak tree on a traffic junction near the canals, making a huge controversy around the building of the foundation.
Recently, a new exhibition opened under the name ‘La Grande Madre’, which consists in 29 rooms expanded around the Palazzo Reale, one of the Milan’s most glittering historical institutions.
‘La Grande Madre’ deals with the theme of maternity, displaying over 400 works by 139 international artists created between 1900 and the present. The shows includes: Diane Arbus, Louise Bourgeois, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons. The female participation not only celebrates the motherhood topic, also deconstructed, analysed and laid bare in its often unglamorous – sometimes horrifying – reality, for all the world to see.
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‘The exhibit is enormous,’ remarks Beatrice Trussardi, president of the foundation and daughter of the eponymous Nicola, who works closely with Gioni on each annual exhibit, including the recent wheatfield conceived by Agnes Denes and planted in the city’s Porta Nuova district. For this reason, they have to practically colonise this clasical art place. ‘Plus, we have so many very important works that have been loaned by institutions and collectors that required heavily monitored conditions and security’, says Trussardi.
This giant was conceived two yeras ago, and the idea was coincide with the city’s ‘Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life’ expo theme. Gioni was not present for the press opening yesterday in Milan, a first for him. But he had a relevant – if somewhat ironic – excuse: he became a father for the first time 48 hours prior.
If you’re motivated to see this ehibition, you can go to the Palazzo Reale, Piazza Duomo 12, Milan.
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