With seven storeys above ground and
another two below, this provocative
architectural experiment was built
by Alessandro Antonelli in the latter
half of the 19th century on an almost
triangular-shaped site. This is the setting
for Starling’s amazing narrative
journey that draws on real and imaginary
versions of the story in which
German architect Eckart Muthesius
was called upon by the maharajah of
Indore to create a garden of precious
stones. The complex narrative (involving
sculptor Constantin Brancusi, film
director Fritz Lang, and a number of
exponents of the European avantgarde
such as Le Corbusier, Marcel
Breuer, Eileen Grey and Lilly Reich)
takes visitors on an imaginary spacetime
journey across Indore, Berlin and
Turin. From the fi rst to seventh floor of
the “Fetta di Polenta” until June 28. Elena Sommariva
Fino al 28.06.2008
Three Birds, Seven Stories,
Interpolations and Bifurcations
Galleria Franco Noero
Via Giulia di Barolo 16D, 10124 Torino
https:// www.franconoero.com
Three Birds, Seven Stories...
With a piece by British artist Simon Starling, Franco Noero inaugurates the new premises of his Turin gallery in the “fetta di polenta”.
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- 12 May 2008