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Assab One 2004: young Italian artistsAt the entrance to the courtyard in via Assab, on the northern outskirts of Milan, three large vaults (with Pier Paolo Pasolini at the centre) painted on card and hung on the wall welcome visitors. The author is 'Abbominevole', a street artist who for the last three years has been spreading large and small scale stickers around the walls of the city. Moving on, someone is working their way through the crowd balanced on a can of petrol, whilst in a corner a refreshment area has been set up and a bicycle hire point with maps (drawn by Margherita Morgantin) that offer a guided tour of the area's 'beauty spots'
In its various and most extemporary manifestations, for a whole week contemporary art is the undisputed queen of the Milan scene. Not just in the Fiera, where MiArt confirms the 'commercial' triumph but also elsewhere in the city, where Roberto Pinto looks at the new generation of Italian artists.
23 young artists - all born after 1970 - were invited to work in the context of an industrial building undergoing transformation: an ex print works and graphic company in Milan that is to become the headquarters of Assab One that takes a new interesting approach to art, welcoming new ideas and producing interesting initiatives.
Amongst the imposing rotary presses, racks for the
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15/5/2004 | Viewed 17,584 time(s)
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