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Winners of the competition dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci organized by the Municipality of Milan|Culture, the two site-specific works by Ettore Favini and Eugenio Tibaldi are set up in the Museum spaces until 12 January 2020. Tonight at 21 pm screening of "Atlantico" by Ettore Favini in Piazza Liberty, on the occasion of Milan MovieWeek

Milan, September 19 2019 – The two works awarded ex-aequo in the competition announced by the Municipality of Milan | Culture on the occasion of “Milano Leonardo 18”, the program of initiatives promoted and coordinated by the Municipality, are set up in the spaces of the Museo del Novecento (inauguration today at 500 pm) on the five hundredth anniversary of the death of the Tuscan genius. “Atlantico” by Ettore Favini and “Giardino abusive” by Eugenio Tibaldi, on display from 20 September to 12 January 2020, interpret the themes addressed by the Renaissance Master in the Milanese period with a contemporary slant.

Nature, science and art are interpreted by the two artists with a different perspective, maintaining an intermedial language and particular attention to interaction with the public. The themes, at the center of the over eighty projects that responded to the call from the Municipality of Milan | Culture for the creation of a contemporary work of art inspired by Leonardo da Vinci, thus become an opportunity for reflection on current and urgent topics such as sustainability and environmental degradation.

“Atlantico” by Ettore Favini is a video installation set up in a special room on the ground floor of the Museum. The images, which create a cycle lasting approximately 10 minutes, are projected in a loop on a screen and are inspired by Leonardo's Codex Atlanticus, preserved at the Ambrosiana Library in Milan, offering the visitor an immersive experience between memories of mists and Leonardesque "shades": a suspended space that connects past and present through the transformations of the landscape, a meditation guided by images that poetically document the metamorphosis of water. Tonight at 21pm, on the occasion of Milan MovieWeek, "Atlantico" will be screened in Piazza Liberty.

The installation "Abusive Garden" by Eugenio Tibaldi comes to life in the Museum: an "atypical" vegetable garden that is born, nourished and grows by grafting onto three different floors of the Museum. Salad and tomatoes sprout between refrigerators, broken televisions and mattresses, fed with recovered water which, filtered thanks to a purification system that is part of the installation itself, comes from the Museum's hydraulic system.

Both works can be visited with free entry and, as foreseen in the competition announcement, they will become part of the collection of the Museo del Novecento.

Also on this occasion the Museum opens up to the city and generates new synergies by collaborating with the Occupational Therapy Laboratories of the Municipality of Milan: in fact, it is the volunteers registered in the laboratories who take care of Eugenio Tibaldi's "Abusive Garden" by interacting with the work and showing how a small gesture can contribute to the balance with nature so unbalanced by the impact of human action on the environment.

ETTORE FAVINI (Cremona 1974)
He trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. His work lives in the dimension of listening to stories and minor narratives to nourish works that tell the relationship between people and their environment. You have received numerous awards, including the Italian Council promoted by DGAAP (2019), the Artegiovane Award of the Chambers of Commerce of Milan and Turin (2005), the New York Award at Columbia University (2007). Among the various exhibitions: Italian Academy of Columbia University, New York; ISCP, New York; Song Eun Art Space, Seoul; Ocat, Shanghai; Italian Cultural Institute, Tirana; Center for Contemporary Art Futura, Prague; Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin; Villa Panza, Varese; Villa Croce Contemporary Art Museum, Genoa; PAC, Contemporary Art Pavilion, Milan; CCC Strozzina, Florence; MAN, Art Museum of the province of Nuoro; Villa Medici, Rome; Pastificio Cerere Foundation, Rome; American Academy, Rome; Olivetti Foundation, Rome; Riso Museum, Palermo.
He is currently a teacher in the Visual Art Course of the New NABA Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and of the Painting Course at the G. Carrara Academy of Fine Arts in Bergamo.

EUGENIO TIBALDI (Alba 1977)
He perfected his studies at the Domus Academy in Istanbul and at the Higher Course in Visual Arts (CSAV) of the Antonio Ratti Foundation in Como and, later, at the American Academy in Rome as an Affiliated Fellowship. Since 2000, after moving to Naples, you have based your research on the concept of margin analyzed in all its declinations, starting from the geographical one with the study of the suburbs of large cities in Italy and around the world. Realities known during numerous trips to Egypt, Venezuela, Turkey, Greece, Romania, Cuba and Albania. Among personal and group exhibitions: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; International Center of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki; State Archaeological Museum, Ascoli Piceno; XII Biennial of Havana; Madre Museum, Naples; Ettore Fico Museum, Turin; Maxxi, Rome.

Free entry to the installations.