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Event:

Portraits of Milan. Recomposing the imaginary

Place:

"La porta di Milano" Malpensa Airport, Terminal 1

13 May - 13 September

Free entrance

Event details

In Portraits of Milan, Rovatti interprets Milan through a series of portraits of ordinary people depicted in the streets of the city and where food assumes an ironic and playful relationship with each person. The presence of food in the portraits is an opportunity to create new, sometimes paradoxical situations.

The setting is always shared between the two stars, people and food. If it is true that “we are what we eat,” food is part of our identity. The foods represented – ones that protect health – were chosen by  SmartFood, a research and data project in Nutritional Sciences at the European Institute of Oncology and the Monzino Cardiology Center. SmartFood conducts research on how diet protects health aimed at a new,
nutritional approach to prevention.

The images, in combination with photographs of Milan’s architecture, are concurrently on display at the Malpensa International Airport and at the Expo2015 Casa Corriere Pavilion.

Profile of author

From his studio in Milan, Andrea Rovatti works on photography, communications design, and art installations. His works have been exhibited at the Grand Palais in Paris, the Biennale in Warsaw, the Museum of Arts in Hiroshima, the United Nations Building in New York, the Indian Design Center in Mumbai, the Design Centre in Montreal, the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie (La Villette) in Paris, the MART in Rovereto, and the Milan Triennale.