The Space of the Demiurge

From January 28th to June 7th, Palazzo Madama presents a photo exhibition dedicated to the works of Sarah Moon, Pino Musi and Marco Maria Zanin on the theme of the museum houses of artists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The protagonist of the first room is Casa Mollino in Turin, mirror the eclectic taste of Carlo Mollino (1905-1973), the great architect, designer, art director, photographer and writer, set up by the artist between 1960 and 1968. The images presented in the second room instead portray Palazzo Pesaro Orfei in Venice, a Renaissance building purchased in the late nineteenth century by Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871-1949), a native of Granada, painter, stage designer, photographer and designer of fabrics, which in Venetian palace set a first study in 1898, then expanded in subsequent years to become one of the most important workshop for the creation and printing of clothing and furnishing fabrics.
The two house museums, both open to the public today (Casa Mollino appointment; Palazzo Fortuny, donated by the artist to the city of Venice in 1956, is part of the Civic Museums Foundation of Venice), respectively, have inspired the work of Pino Musi and Marco Maria Zanin (Casa Mollino) and Sarah Moon (Palazzo Fortuny).
The images of Pino Musi, particularly interested in his works to the themes of architecture - from the classical buildings of ancient Rome to the achievements of Andrea Palladio, palaces twenties and thirties of Naples to the creations of Le Corbusier and Mario Botta - are displayed in the window in small wardrobe, while the walls of this room are presented photographic prints and polaroid of young Marco Maria Zanin, winner of the National Art Agarttha 2014. In Chinese Cabinet gathered pictures of Sarah Moon: in the seventies model and fashion photographer in Paris and London, then photographs of art, especially interested in the theme of the old palaces, which gives in his images a fairytale character, and that of the Cabinets of curiosities and natural history collections of seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many of which are today part in museums and important subject of his photographic exhibitions (Museums of Reggio Emilia and the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris).

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