www.hanninen.it +39 347 4218 305 via Santa Marta, 18 - Milano (IT) Mi-Bg 49 Km on the highway photo: Giovanni Hänninen image consulting: Stefania Molteni sound designer: Gavrièl Pardi Milano - Bergamo (IT), 2015 inkjet print on Canson baryta paper mounted on dibond plates dimensions large: 80 x 53 cm small: 54 x 36 cm Bergamo Milano We can all say that we have in some way experienced the motorway; few can say they really know it, have observed inside and out, on the surface and in depth, from above and below, before and after its great and its small transformations. The striking similarity of its components at all latitudes and the elevated cruising speed of its users make it the emblem of distracted and partial perception. For this reason the research dedicated to the 49km of motorway connecting Milan to Bergamo, opened in 1927, aimed to sidestep a general observations of the type of infrastructure and focus on the specific territory being travelled. From the late 1920s to the present, the relationship between the motorway and the cities has indeed changed, the cities besiege and declasse the stretches of motorway closest to their consolidated margins, starting a slow and inexorable colonization process of the section through garrisons and vanguards tasked with neutralizing the motorway exception. Infact the transversal interference to be crossed or contained turn from opportunities for showcasing engineering infrastructure works into critical situations to be mitigated, camouflage, offset. The Mi–Bg today appears as a motorway segment in the throes of a momentous conflict that repels special regulation systems for the rapid vehicle transit, with ordinary forms of urbanization pressing at the border. It is a sort of showdown and prelude to a change of state, at the end of which the motorway we know will be completely transformed, just as today the landscape seen in the images that document the construction and the first decades of operation are unrecognizable. The photographic research alongside with the audio recordings of the photographed environment, permit to experience the universal phenomena which are responsible for the transformation of the spaces that the highway and the crossed territories incessantly contend. Mi-Bg 49km on the highway Audio The exhibition consists also of an audio experience formed by recordings of the sounds of the photographed environment. http://ftp.hanninen.it/Mostre/MiBgTxtra/AudioMi-Bg.zip EXHIBITED IN TRIENNALE Xtra: in viaggio con la Triennale. from 25/09/2015 to 31/10/2015 Fondazione Dalmine, Piazza Caduti del 6 luglio 1944, 1 Backstage Scala photo: Giovanni Hänninen Milano, 2014 - 2015 inkjet print on Canson baryta paper black wood framing dimensions large: 105 x 70 cm small: 50 x 34 cm “La Scala is the first theatre of the world, because it gives the maximum musical enjoyment» Stendhal, 1816 Teatro Alla Scala was born in 1778. In 238 years, it burned down, it was bombed, rebuilt, renovated, modernized. Only the level of excellence in the creation of shows has remained unaltered despite the many changes of the skin. A velvet skin beneath which lurks wooden bowels and a skeleton of steel. The wonder of a Scala show is such that you might think it’s magic. An inexplicable phenomenon of the divine will. The reality is that the creation of each scene is the result of thousands of hours of production by 160 between designers and tailors, hours of rehearsal by the musicians of the orchestra and assembly by the stage technicians. Aim of this project is to give a privileged view of all that is hidden to viewers. A look to the rooms behind the rectangle of the proscenium and to workers behind the scenes. To discover another show. EXHIBITED IN - Ieri Oggi Milano Spazio Oberdan, viale Vittorio Veneto 2, Milano from 19/06/2015 to 30/08/2015 - SIAM, via Santa Marta, 18, Milano within Fuorisalone 2016 from 12/04/2016 to 17/04/2016 cittàinattesa photo: Giovanni Hänninen texts and research: Alberto Amoretti Milano, 2012 - 2015 inkjet print on bright white Hahnemüehle paper black wood framing dimensions 40 x 50 cm In Italian language, the title cittàinattesa conceals a pun between “in attesa”, in waiting, and “inattesa”, unexpected. This project aims at creating an ideal city, assembled with all the places that virtually meet the basic requirements of modern life. All the buildings ended the purpose which they were built. Some of them would still be able to serve the citizens. Others are simply out of date. Others have remained unfinished. Places ready to be transformed, and in some cases they do so. A silent fight is what they are facing. Against the deterioration that slowly crushes their groundwork’s and against nature that quietly gets back the spaces which had been taken away from her. These are not suburbs of a retreating city, but places scattered through time and in the urban context of a metropolis which challenges the sky with new towers. Our ideal city is built with pieces of a forgotten Milan: one of the most fast growing city in Europe, one of the financial capital of the World, famous for its role in Fashion, Design and trend setting. A metaphor for the Western World. THE TOWER Galfa Tower, Area of the Central Station, Milan, Italy With its 109 metres (358 ft) and 31 floors, this is the ninth highest building of the city. Finished in1959, it was seat of the Banca Popolare of Milan for thirty years. In 2006 the tower was purchased by Ligresti Group that left it unused. In 2012 Macao, an artistic- social movement, squatted it for ten days. A short time later it was sold to Unipol insurance company that, in 2014, proposed, together with the municipality, a restoration project which has not started yet. THE COUNCIL HOUSES Sarto District, Via Apollodoro, Milan, Italy Built in 1925, the twelve Neo-Renaissance houses are managed by ALER. They host a kindergarten, the seat of a trade union and, until 2013, also a SERT (rehabilitation center). Another house, the only one restored, hosts by contract the president of Milan’s Court. Nine houses have been vacant for a long time and, in 2013, were auctioned for eight million euros, but no bid was made for them. The Lambretta Collective squatted four of them for two years, until August 2014. THE TECHNICAL INSTITUTE Rizzoli Institute for Teaching Graphic Arts, Occhialini Square, Milan, Italy The Rizzoli Institute for Teaching Graphic Arts was founded in 1964 and given by publisher Angelo Rizzoli to the city. lt has represented the excellence in training graphic professionals for decades. The school moved to a new building in 2009. The demolition project for giving place to a dormitory has come to naught. The building was squatted, for demonstration purposes for one day only, by the Lambretta Collective. THE THEATRE Giorgio Gaber Opera House (Teatro Lirico), Via Larga, Milan, Italy Commissioned by Archduke Ferdinand from Piermarini in 1776, as a low-class version of the aristocratic Scala, it has hosted the premiere of The Elixir of Love by Donizetti, the preview of the silent film Cabiria, performances of Enrico Caruso and Giorgio Gaber. After a fire, it was rebuilt in 1938. Mussolini delivered here his last speech. Closed in 1999, there have been several restoration attempts. The last project for 16.5 million euros was announced, but not started yet, in February 2014. THE CHURCH Church of San Giorgio, Via Cristina Belgioioso, Roserio, Milano, Italy This small church in front of “Luigi Sacco” Hospital is said to have been built on commission by a Milanese noblewoman after she had received the grace of God in 1850. The current owner wanted to turn it into a restaurant, but bureaucratic obstacles put by the Monuments and Fine Arts Service brought the project to nothing. The church is currently on sale. THE BANK Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Agency, Via Astesani, Milano, Italy Established in 1913, the Banca del Lavoro changed its name into Banca Nazionale del Lavoro as it was nationalized in 1929. Itbecame the greatest Italian bank but, as the boom ended, it declined because of several scandals until its privatization in 1998. In 2006 it was purchased by the BNP Paribas Group,which announced a selling off of properties.The former Agency 22, empty for ten years, was squatted by the RiMake Collective in Spring 2014 on the cry of: “We have a bank!” THE TRAIN STATION San Cristoforo Station, Via Ludovico il Moro, Milan, Italy Theoretically it should have been the largest train station of South Milan, expected to be used by thousands of commuters. Designed in 1983 by Aldo Rossi, it was never completed. It has become shelter for homeless people and nomads and it has often been squatted and cleared. In 2008, at the Xl Architecture Biennale in Venice, a project of turning it into low-cost mini flats was proposed. The Underground Line 4 last stop is expected to be nearby. THE FACTORY Innocenti Factory, Rubattino Area, Milan, Italy The Innocenti factory was operative between 1947 and 1993. Here the legendary Lambretta was built, which competed with the Vespa motor scooter. Then the license-built Mini came, which was anyway more luxurious for the demanding Italian market. The Maserati Biturbo and the first economy cars with air conditioning and mass-produced electric windows came out of these factories in the eighties.The site was asbestos-decontaminated. Projects of restoration have been discussed for a long time,so far with no results. THE SOCIAL SECURITY BUILDING Via Toffetti, 121, Milan, Italy In June 201 1 Antonio Mastrapasqua, then president of INPS, the Italian National Social Security Agency, announced the rearrangement of the body’s seats.