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The beauty of asphalt on show in Milan
Neglected, driven over every day by millions of vehicles, unloved but put up with for its necessity, asphalt – technically a mixture of bitumen and inert matter used for covering roads – is currently the protagonist of an exhibition at the Triennale in Milan.
A truly new point of view is offered by curator Mirko Zardini who, analysing the use of this material in historical, cultural and sociological terms shows a new way of observing the city and surrounding territory - a new point of departure to understand the physical environment which surrounds us.
From the beginning of the nineteenth century, when asphalt entered into the major European and American cities, from movements against the material to its production and use around the world, the objective of the exhibition is to offer a different look at a material which represents for the contemporary city that which reinforced concrete, metal and glass did for modern architecture.
4.3.2003 – 27.7.2003 Asfalto. Il carattere della città Palazzo della Triennale, Milano T +39-02-724341 http://www.triennale.it
