Galleria illy will open in London on September 12, hosted by lighting and furnishings designers FLOS and Moroso. Michelangelo Pistoletto has been invited, along with Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, to provide artistic
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Galleria illy will open in London on September 12, hosted by lighting and furnishings designers FLOS and Moroso. Michelangelo Pistoletto has been invited, along with Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, to provide artistic direction at this autumn’s Galleria illy with a range of works and projects linking London to the Mediterranean and southern more to Africa. Pistoletto’s Mediterranean Mirror Table Love Difference (first revealed at the 2003 Venice Biennale) will act as a meeting place, a symbolic and yet concrete representation of different cultures united by a common sea, an in between continent where to aknowledge oneself and each other in an all-welcoming mirror. The temporary exhibition space will play host to a programme of art, literature, science, design and food & wine events presented by internationally renowned personalities. Participants already committed include Marina Abramovic, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Carlito Carvalhosa. Cittadellarte’s decade-long collaboration with illy revolves around UNIDEE-University of Ideas and its annual Residency Programme. Every year illy invites the UNIDEE artists to take part in a design competition. The 2010 winner – Camerronian artist Alioum Moussa – has now been invited to design the outfits for Galleria illy’s attendants. Galleria illy – hosted by FLOS and Moroso |
