2023 Cities of the Future

The Alliance between Art, Architecture and Reforestation for the regeneration of life in our cities

PROJECT PROMOTED BY ASSOCIAZIONE ARTE CONTINUA IN COORDINATION WITH MIART - MILAN INTERNATIONAL MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR

"Cities of the Future - The Alliance between Art, Architecture and Reforestation for the regeneration of life in our cities"two meetings on 15 and the 16 April in the spaces of Triennale Milan and in collaboration with Miart - International Modern and Contemporary Art Fairon the role of contemporary art in defining the idea of the City of the Future, socially responsible and respectful of the other life forms on the planet, sensitive to the different communities living it and to the future generations that will be able to live and enjoy it, open to using all technologies that allow energy saving, to all generations and to the sense and pleasure of living there.

PROGRAM

Saturday 15 April

18:00, 'Cities of the Future - The Alliance between Art, Architecture and Reforestation for the Regeneration of Life in our Cities'.

Speakers: Mario Cristiani, President of Associazione Arte Continua and Co-founder of Galleria Continua, Tommaso Sacchi, Councillor for Culture, Municipality of Milan, Valerio Barberis, Councillor for Urban Planning and Environment, Municipality of Prato; Loris Cecchini, Artist, Mario Cucinella, Architect and Designer, founder of the international studio MCA - Mario Cucinella Architects.

Sunday 16 April

12:00, 'Citrus Project, Todolì Citrus Foundation'.

Speakers: Lucía Muñoz Iglesias, Citrus Project Curator, and Mario Cristiani.

Associazione Arte Continua e Miart - Milan international modern and contemporary art fair present "Cities of the Future - The Alliance between Art, Architecture and Reforestation for the regeneration of life in our cities', a series of two meetings on 15 and 16 April at Triennale dedicated to the theme of Cities of the Future.

The first meeting will be held Saturday 15 April at 18 in the spaces of Triennale Milan and will see interventions by Mario Cristiani, President of Associazione Arte Continua and Co-founder of Galleria Continua, Tommaso Sacchi, Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Milan, Valerio Barberis, Councillor for Urban Planning and the Environment of the Municipality of Prato, Loris Cecchiniinternationally renowned Italian artist and Mario Cucinella, architect and designer, founder of the international studio MCA - Mario Cucinella Architects.

The Cities of the Future is a project promoted by the Associazione Arte Continua with the aim of bringing together artists from the international community with public administrators, entrepreneurs, economists, directors of cultural institutions, urban planners, scientists, computer scientists and other authoritative protagonists of our time: a series of meetings to understand what role thecontemporary art in presenting itself as an opportunity for stimulus and, at the same time, as toolto give substance to an idea of the city of the future, socially responsible and respectful of the other life forms on the planet, sensitive to the different communities that live in it and to the future generations that will be able to experience and enjoy it, open to using all energy-saving technologies, to all generations and to the sense and pleasure of living in it.

The second meeting will be held Sunday 16 April at 12 and will be entirely dedicated to the Todolì Citrus Foundation's Citrus Project, with talks by Lucía Muñoz Iglesiascurator of the project, and Mario Cristiani.

La Todolì Citrus Foundation is a non-profit organisation created in 2013 for the study and dissemination of citrus fruits and citrus farming. The Foundation was created by Vicente Todolì in the city of Palmera (Valencia), in an area that had belonged to his family for five generations and was dedicated to the cultivation of citrus fruits, which was in danger of being subjected to the logic of the tourism industry. The Foundation's objective is to create its own citrus fruit collection, currently consisting of more than 400 varieties, preserved and valorised for the purposes of research, dissemination and education in agricultural, environmental, historical, culinary and industrial matters. At the heart of the project is the recovery of the land, nature and tradition, concretised in an orchard that, rather than a succession of varieties, is rather a garden to be walked through and experienced, in which to try to observe time and understand its role in the construction of the rhythms of nature.

 

Edited by Lucía Muñoz Iglesias, Citrus Project is the exhibition realised for the benefit of the Foundation at the Librairie Marian Goodman in Paris. The exhibition includes a portfolio of works by 14 different artists who have worked closely with Vicente Todolí in his role as pre-eminent curator: Mirosław Bałka, Tacita Dean, Nan Goldin, Paul Graham, Carsten Höller, Roni Horn, Cristina Iglesias, Ragnar Kjartansson, Julie Mehretu, Cildo Meireles, Matt Mullican, Antoni Muntadas, Philippe Parreno and Julião Sarmento. A collection of works that is a tribute to the earth, to its poetry and its materiality, to its romanticism and its pain, to the curiosity of experimentation, to the acceptance of not fully understanding, to the joy of play, to constant research, to repetition and randomness.