Milan, from 28 March 2023
Jonathan Calugi, Parisi 1876 and Alkanoids with Luca Font are the artists involved in the Urban business unit. The colours, shapes and lines in their work express the main idea behind the hub: making use of spaces that are no longer used by the railway, giving life to sustainable urban regeneration. Roberta Di Mario’s composition helps to bring out the concept and to pause time: that means everybody can choose what they want, in their own space, and at their own pace.
The Scalo Farini, a former railway yard, is an area that focuses on the artistic interpretation of urban regeneration. There are three installations which focus on the city of the future within the exhibition ensemble designed for the FS Group’s Urban business unit. QR Codes can be found alongside the installations so visitors can hear the tune composed for the Urban business unit.
From 28 March - Scalo Farini
UNA CASETTA PICCOLA COSÌ - This Cosy Little House - by JONATHAN CALUGI
The building at the Scalo Farini site, in the area reclaimed by the FS Group’s Urban business unit, is decorated with a pattern in which nature, human faces and examples of virtuous behaviour create a design with great visual and value-based impact.
From 28 March - Scalo Farini
IL GIGANTE TATUATO - The Tattooed Giant - by ALKANOIDS ft LUCA FONT
A giant who is in love with the environment but is restricted to tight spaces. An exploration of sustainability illustrated through the tattoos and gestures of a creature who comes from the future. The giant’s hand points the way to the city of the future. The work interprets the idea of sustainability in the FS Group’s Urban business unit.
From 28 March - Scalo Farini
IL FIORE DI LUCE - The Flower of Light - by PARISI 1876
The FS Group’s Urban business unit is building a new city. But what city and what rhythm will there be in your life? Push the button to discover the future: a luminous installation fed by solar panels provides an interactive response that is part of the Apulian tradition, one which can illuminate you in every respect.
This composition in D minor in 12/8 time resonates with an evocative and haunting piano theme and the urban/contemporary sound of strings and percussion instruments that accompany it, ambient sounds that philosophically remind one of far-off stations, trains, open spaces, and a tense crescendo that pushes one to imagine what goes beyond every boundary to the creation of a memory that relates not just to sight, but also to sound.