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Milan, September 1 2020 – Two new works of “Artline Milano” will be inaugurated on Wednesday 9 September, during “Milano Art week 2020” (7/13 September), the public art project of the Municipality of Milan which develops in the Citylife park area along a structured path of twenty permanent works: eight selected through a competition for artists under 40 and the others by already established international artists.

The two works, “New times for other ideas / New ideas for other times” by Maurizio Nannucci and “Beso” by Wilfredo Prieto, will be added to the first six site-specific sculptures already installed inside the park, and created by artists Riccardo Benassi, Judith Hopf, Ornaghi & Prestinari, Matteo Rubbi, Pascale Marthine Tayou and Serena Vestrucci. In addition to the works already installed, those by Rossella Biscotti, Shilpa Gupta, Adelita Husni-Bey, Jeremy Deller, Mario Airò, Alfredo Jaar, Kiki Smith, among others, are being planned.

“New times for other ideas / New ideas for other times” by Maurizio Nannucci (Florence, 1939) is a double writing made with blue and red neon tubes that the artist designed to be positioned on the facade of Pavilion 3, a building built in 1923 by the architect Paolo Vietti Violi which remains the only surviving pavilion of the exhibition structure of the historic headquarters of the Milan Fair. Following a scheme proposed several times by the artist, the spectator (or more simply the passer-by) is faced with two almost mirror-like sentences which stimulate a new interpretation of the spatial context and invite us to reflect on the idea of ​​new, on the passage of time and on the contaminations that these concepts generate.

“Beso” by Wilfredo Prieto (Sancti Spiriti - Cuba, 1978) is a work made up of the union of two erratic boulders, placed next to each other, which touch each other at a single point and seem to simulate the gesture of a kiss. Located in an urbanized environment, represented among other things by homes, offices and shopping centers, these natural elements offer a link with the history of art and the tradition of gardening.

The inauguration will take place on Wednesday 9 September, starting at 19pm, in the presence of the municipal administration, the coordinator of "Artline Milano" Roberto Pinto, the CEO of Citylife Armando Borghi and the artist Maurizio Nannucci.

Armando Borghi, CEO of Citylife, commented: “We are very satisfied with the collaboration with the municipal administration which in recent years has allowed us to successfully carry out Artline, a public art project in which Citylife is strongly committed to the objective of offering all citizens the opportunity to fully experience the spaces of the large Citylife Park, through an integrated path between art, nature and architecture unique in Milan".

But the initiatives of "Artline Milano" for the "Milano Artweek 2020" do not end here.

On Sunday 13 September, starting at 17pm, the "Artline Milano" curatorial team will accompany Milanese citizens on a walk among the works of public art present in the city, to discover some of the most important sculptures installed in parks and public places : from “La mela reintegrata” by Michelangelo Pistoletto, created and installed in the center of Piazza del Duomo in Milan for the opening of the Expo and then definitively placed in front of the Central Station, to the Monument to Mazzini, in Piazza della Repubblica, work by the sculptor Pietro Cascella. The visit will continue towards Porta Nuova, where we will meet Alberto Garutti who will tell us about “Egg”: 23 chromed brass metal tubes that develop vertically on four levels, from the parking levels to the upper ones, and which send back surrounding sounds, noises and words . The next stop is the tour of the works created for the XV Milan Triennale in 1973 and located between the Sempione Park and the Triennale Gardens. We start from “Arman's musical accumulation and session” in Sempione Park. The sculpture was conceived as a pouring of concrete that gives the shape of a cavea with steps and various iron chairs, while trumpets and musical instruments emerge from the podium, a parallelepiped placed in front of the steps. You cannot miss a visit to Alberto Burri's "Teatro Continuo" - a stage structure reduced to the essentials, composed of a platform raised from the ground and six rotating lateral wings painted white on one side and black on the other - and to " The Fountain of the Mysterious Baths” by Giorgio De Chirico which is now located inside the Triennale. It is a sinuous pool inside which emerge two swimmers, a trampoline, a ball, a cabin, a swan, a fish and a source, all elements that recall the artist's childhood in Volos, Greece . The seed of the Most High by Emilio Isgrò represents the next step. Created for Expo 2015, the sculpture portrays an orange seed enlarged 1.500.000.000 times to reach a height of seven metres, and creates a connection between Sicily, the artist's homeland, and Milan , his adopted city. The walk will end in the park of "Artline Milano", a public art project of the Municipality of Milan in the new Citylife district, with a visit to the works present in the area.

Information and details on www.artlinemilano.it, reservation required by email to: artline.milano@gmail.com

On Saturday 12 September, at 11 am at the Archaeological Museum, “Artline Milano” organizes a round table entitled: The Empyrean of the Etruscans: A Celestial Dialogue. Speakers: Giovanna Bagnasco, University of Milan; Giulio Magli, Polytechnic of Milan; Mario Airò, Artist who is part of the “Artline Milano” project. Moderated by Marco Edoardo Minoja, Director, Culture Directorate of the Municipality of Milan.

Reservation required by email to: artline.milano@gmail.com.

Artline Milano is a public art project of the Municipality of Milan, conceived and curated by Roberto Pinto and Sara Dolfi Agostini (until 2016). The curatorial team is currently made up of Roberto Pinto, Katia Anguelova, Mariacristina Ferraioli and Cecilia Guida.  
It is a journey divided into over twenty permanent works: 8 selected through a competition for under40 artists (whose exhibition was held at Palazzo Reale in Milan between 2015 and 2016) and the others by already established international artists.

The works have been installed since 2016 and constitute a permanent exhibition completely integrated with the architecture of Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki and Daniel Libeskind and with the natural evolution of the Citylife park, designed by the Gustafson Porter studio.

In addition to the works already installed, works by Rossella Biscotti, Shilpa Gupta, Adelita Husni-Bey, Jeremy Deller, Mario Airò, Alfredo Jaar, Kiki Smith, among others, are being planned.

It is possible to follow the developments of the Artline Milano project through social channels (Facebook, Instagram) and the website www.artlinemilano.it, an information portal on public art.