Svicolando. Tribute to Vico Magistretti

Svicolando. Tribute to Vico Magistretti is a travelling exhibition, presented for the first time in Milan in 2011, which tells the work of Vico Magistretti designer.

The installation consists of ten structures, light and modular, which are a sort of folding screens made by wooden sticks and cardboard panels, that can be combined to form a lively wall. On the panels, printed archival materials document the historical professional partnerships between Vico Magistretti and some of the most important Italian design companies: Artemide, Cassina, De Padova, Flou and Oluce, which are also founding partners of Fondazione Magistretti.

Thanks to sketches, photographs, notes, letters, faxes and some historical pieces still in production today, the exhibition narrates the story of projects and products through the common thread of the professional and personal relationship with the manufactures that have intertwined their success with that of Magistretti.

Date

From 2011 to 2018 in different venues

Past venues of the exhibition

Showrooms of Fondazione Magistretti partner companies, November 2011
Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan, from 17.4.2012 to 21.4.2012
Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest, from 16.1.2013 to 10.2.2013
Spazio Bernardelli in Mantua, from 23.5.2013 to 26.5.2013
Italian Cultural Institute in Berlin, from 25.4.2014 to 16.5.2014
Art Gallery of Plovdiv, from 20.6.2014 to 29.6.2014
Italian Cultural Institute in Athens, from 10.10.2014 to 27.10.2014
Italian Cultural Institute in Tirana, from 20.11.2014 to 21.12.2014
Italian Cultural Institute in Bratislava, from 8.6.2015 to 14.6.2015
Italian Cultural Institute in Barcelona, from 11.11.2015 to 30.11.2015)
Segrate Town Hall, from 20.9.2016 to 16.10.2016
Gallerija Pizana in Podgorica, from 21.10.2016 to 20.11.2016
Italian Cultural Institute in Prague, from 7.11.2017 to 19.11.2017
Centro Cultural de Belem in Lisbon and ESAD in Matosinhos, from 1.3.2018 to 26.3.2018

Colophon

Exhibition curated by
Simona Romano and Luca Poncellini

Graphic design by
Davide Fornari