carlo mollino fragments

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mollino fragments

triennale di milano
14th december 2005 - 22th january 2006
http://www.triennale.it

the exhibition display was inside 5 containers.
these focused on carlo mollino’s architecture
work in the alps, his design furniture, interior design,
fragments - concepts/sketches/letters about his
multilayered work, and photography.
the ‘fragments of mollino’ offer an insight of the
italian architect’s widespread interests.
the itinerary exhibition - currated by cecilia bolognesi
e maurizio navone - will be shipped to rome and turin
afterwards.

polaroids
the photography featuring mollino’s erotic polaroid photographs
after carlo mollino died, his executors found more than
2,000 polaroid photographs, made beginning in the 1960s,
subjects are turin’s unpenitent magdalenes
- most of them nude.

at one level they can be confused as little more than
a genre of amateur pornography with a disinterested
will to artistic form.
the beauty of mollino's images resides primarily in the
pathos and humor of the incommensurability between
the ordinariness of these women, however lovely,
and the artist's need to weave a fantasy around them.

mollino made largely use of retouching techniques in
order to create a certain fantasy he had already
constructed in his mind's eye.
the female form in his photographs assumed more and
more a stylized perfection and the dramatic effect
of stage design.

‘every nude betrays its author’, wrote carlo mollino in 1959.

carlo mollino
was born 6.5.1905 in turin, italy
was an professor/practitioner of architecture who could
make anything …and was an expert in all fields.
his career was highly diversified:
he was a designer of furniture and interiors, of fashion, theater
and film sets, he loved photography, writing, skiing and he liked
to play daredevil.
carlo was the son of the engineer eugenio mollino (1873–1953).
he studied at the faculty of architecture of the politecnico,
also in turin, graduating in 1931.
extremely nonconformist, he expressed himself through
his architectural designs, his furniture and interiors,
in a language assimilated from futurism and surrealism.
mollino died in 27.8.1973 in turin.
the impact of carlo mollino on the recent history of
architecture and taste in general is now being increasingly
recognized.