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Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea
Despite its partial destruction and reconstruction in the Nineties, the Pavillion of Contemporary Art built by Ignazio Gardella in Milan in 1953 remains one of the most successful applications of the use of natural and artificial light to the exhibition theme.
Domus took advantage of the review of a Rouault exhibition, in June 1954, to present the exhibition spaces just a few weeks after their inauguration, with a photographic report by Casali.
A few years later Giulio Carlo Argan gave an important interpretation of Gardella’s spaces: “… with the highly successful solution of a single hall on three different levels, using different types of lighting, he seems to be suggesting a new search (…), focused on composition by precise but imponderable light volumes that penetrate each other and develop one from the other; the walls regress to the function of restriction and almost horizon, until they trace a sort of dimensional and luminous identity between interior and exterior.”
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