Public art, architecture and graphic design come together, inviting us to reflect on Milan and to live its spaces. NABA participates as Educational Partner in the "Vetra Passage" project. Visual Arts Department students worked side by side with art and design professionals. They took part in the creation of an installation for the gallery that, now open to the public, leads from Piazza Vetra to a small square inside the Vetra Building. The intervention can be visited from October 6.
NABA students and the concept of the installation in Milan
"Vetra Passage" is part of an urban regeneration plan. It provides evocative artworks and stimulates debate, shaping the identity of the symbolic building managed by AXA IM Alts. Gabriele Carrera, Valeria Fiorello, Sofia Gasparoli, Alice Giannini, Priscilla Pinto and Mario Uliassi are the BA in Painting and Visual Arts students who worked on this first chapter of the project. Thanks to a workshop with artist and NABA lecturer Patrick Tuttofuoco and the graphic and movable type printing collective Cabaret Typographie, they discovered the area's history and values.
Such a background was relevant to the creative process: the idea realised by the Cabaret Typographie collective sprang from it. The gallery's new chromatic "skin" emphasises Milan's fluid and dynamic soul, a city always looking at progress and transformations. Sentences, verses, sounds, prints, and keywords became urban signs interpreting the metropolis' attitude. The artwork establishes a dialogue with the large light installation "X" by Patrick Tuttofuoco himself, which dominates the building's façade.
Promoted by AXA IM Alts in partnership with Il Prisma, "Vetra Passage" was curated by Helga Marsala (Curator - Artribune Produzioni), and the design direction is by Artribune. The technical sponsor is beWall (Milan). The intervention was presented to the press before the public opening. Marco Scotini (Visual Arts Department Head), Franco Zinna (Direttore Direzione casa e housing sociale - Municipality of Milan), Francesco Rovere (Senior Development Manager - AXA IM Alts), Massimiliano Tonelli (Director - Artribune), Helga Marsala herself, Sebastiano Pasculli (Team Leader & Associate - Il Prisma) and the designers of Cabaret Typographie took the stage. Letizia Paratore (Founder - Urbanfile and Urban Dodecahedron) moderated the talk.