Ugo La Pietra, born in 1938, trained as an architect but he is also an artist, filmmaker, actor, editor, musician, cartoonist and teacher. Through his work he has always been a critical observer of the real world, he has sounded out, analysed, criticised, loved and redesigned reality with rare insight, while revealing the contradictions in culture and society. We curated the design, the catalogue, the communication and the set up of the very first comprehensive monographic exhibition of La Pietra works at the Triennale Design Museum.[Read more]
Ugo La Pietra, born in 1938, trained as an architect but he is also an artist, filmmaker, actor, editor, musician, cartoonist and teacher. Through his work he has always been a critical observer of the real world, he has sounded out, analysed, criticised, loved and redesigned reality with rare insight, while revealing the contradictions in culture and society. We curated the design, the catalogue, the communication and the set up of the very first comprehensive monographic exhibition of La Pietra works at the Triennale Design Museum. Working closely with the curator Angela Rui, we structured the set up of the exhibition through an editorial approach, like in the catalogue, organising his work and archives in 12 rooms, with more than 1.000 objects. The space was divided into chapters, as if the walls were pages of a book, to allow the public to easily and unequivocally understand the artist’s life achievements and his close connection to printed paper.
The catalogue of the exhibition “Progetto Disequilibrante” (“Disequilibrating design”), published by Corraini Edizioni, presents a vast selection of images we picked from the artist’s archive, together with an exclusive new shoot that portrays the studio, the home and personal material of the artist that goes across the whole book as a fil rouge. The copper ink used in the front cover and in all the communication material brings back to the rough props Ugo La Pietra often used in his works. For the artist, exhibiting at the Triennale is a sort of coming back to his origins: one of his most renown film pieces is “La Grande Occasione” from 1973, entirely shot inside the Triennale building, where the artist purported to represent the difficult conditions in which culture operates in our society. Made with a touch of irony and sarcasm, it shows the relationship between individual and environment towards observation and re-appropriation of the design of space and reality.
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