DB Collection Italy: treasures in Milan
Open House
Day at Deutsche Bank Italy headquarters
Open
House Day at Deutsche Bank Italy headquarters
"The
bank uncovers its treasures," declared ViviMilano,
the weekly Milan supplement to the national daily Corriere
della Sera. And the local edition of the daily La
Repubblica dedicated an entire page to the Open House Day of DB
Collection Italy. Following the official opening in March of this
year, the Milan section of the Deutsche
Bank Collection was presented to the public for the first time last
October, 6th in the framework of the initiative "Invito a Palazzo" by the Associazione
Bancaria Italiana (Italian Banking Association), for which over 50
banks all around Italy opened their doors. Visitors to the new Deutsche
Bank Italian headquarters were greeted in the large entrance hall by Patrick
Tuttofuoco’s hanging light sculpture X-Flag: one of the
five installations made especially for the building, which was designed by
the architect Gino Valle.
Creativity
workshop for the young visitors
Around a
thousand art enthusiasts thronged the imposing building at the Piazza del
Calendario in the Milan district of Bicocca. While the children were
entertained in creativity workshops and a stage program, adults were
invited to experience the most important of the approximately 200 works of
DB Collection Italy, on guided tours through the offices, halls, the
foyer, and the cafeteria.
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Guided tour through the DB Collection Italy
DB
Collection Italy is an permanent art exhibition that inspires staff,
clients, and guests, that provokes discussion, and that gives the building
its inimitable character.
From
Gabriele
Basilico’s cool, elegant black and white studies of Milan’s
industrial architecture and Vincenzo
Castella’s atmospheric color photographs of abandoned houses to
a large-scale beach panorama by Massimo
Vitali or Ina
Weber’s delicate watercolors of the kiosks that can be found
everywhere from Lombardy to Sicily—Italy is the common theme of the
presented works. In his commissioned piece Mare Nostrum, Luca
Vitone also focuses on his native country: stylized ocean waves extend
along a hallway wall, on top of which is the silhouette of Italy pieced
together from framed postcards of popular vacation sites. An installation
that perfectly reflects the motto of the building’s art—Viaggio
in Italia, or Journey through Italy.
Luca
Vitone, Mare Nostrum, 2004/2007,
Commissioned
work for the Deutsche Bank Headquarters in Milan,
Photo:
Roberto Marossi
Whoever missed the premiere
will also have the opportunity to visit DB Collection Italy on November
23, 2007. In 2008, the Collection will be opened to interested visitors on
a regular monthly basis: January 29, February 26, April 22, and May 27.
Next dates will be defined.
Register at: communications.italy@db.com
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