ENDTRODUCING
Endtroducing is a solo exhibition curated by Gizmo within the series “#REMIX: Architetti nell’Età del Network” at Politecnico di Milano, Scuola AIUC (16 October – 16 November 2018)
Authors: Forestieri Pace Pezzani (Enrico Forestieri, Matteo Pace, Pietro Pezzani)
Collaborator: Matilde Villa
Thanks to: Dastu - Politecnico di Milano, Gizmo
Sponsors: GPO Publionda and Knauf Italia
Endtroducing reflects upon the notion of #remix in contemporary architecture.
The installation takes over the entire Cubo Exhibition Space at Politecnico di Milano: a small volume delimited by three plasterboard walls. Endtroducing redefines the perception and use of the Architecture Faculty hall, engaging viewers in an ambiguous spatial and visual experience.
A work of “postproduction” on materials and forms echoing what we consider one of our founding projects -the Garibaldi Isola Civic Centre, 2014- generates a strange hybrid: an “almost-building”, something in between a scaled model and an autonomous exhibition design. Such ambiguity is perceived by the viewers as they cross the installation’s threshold, and they are faced with the visual mirroring of three different artifacts: the Civic Centre’s original model (1:50), a model of the installation (1:20) and the installation itself.
On the Cubo background wall, two different sets of images are overlayed in a simultaneous looped projection. The first sets comprises images from our office’s diverse range of projects – whose scales span from 5 linear meters to 40 hectares; the second shows what we fondly call“beautiful discards”: casual epiphanies picked from the visual and material byproducts of our daily practice. Images from this second set appear and vanish as in a dream: by overlaying onto the first set of project images, they change their perception and create unexpected, never ending combinations.
Endtroducing is entirely built with plasterboard panels, just like the walls of the exhibition space that contains it. This material epitomises a conditions of genericness in contemporary architecture, featuring with maximum versatility at different scales -from small exhibition designs to entire buildings. On top of that, it is astonishingly similar to materials commonly used for architectural modelling, such as poliplat . In this case, a”non standard assembly” of standard components -like angle sections and C studs- produces a simple yet sophisticated structural reinforcement, which contributes to emphasise the ambiguity of the installation: a building, a piece of display furniture or a model?
Endtroducing is a solo exhibition curated by Gizmo within the series “#REMIX: Architetti nell’Età del Network” at Politecnico di Milano, Scuola AIUC (16 October – 17 November 2018)
Authors: Forestieri Pace Pezzani (Enrico Forestieri, Matteo Pace, Pietro Pezzani)
Collaborator: Matilde Villa
Thanks to: GPO Publionda and Knauf Italia
