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Milano Centro

This exhibition at Museo del Novecento in Milan gathers a selection of the artist’s works that escapes routine mechanisms through the use of apparently simple methods.

For Paola Di Bello, her lens is an agent that allows her to renew her perception of what surrounds us and to transform a familiar glimpse of life into something extraoridinary. Her vision of things escapes routine mechanisms through the use of apparently simple methods: a change of focus, repositioning, the predilection for unusual viewpoints, the rotation of the image, matching or overlapping of elements that cannot be perceived together since they are distant in time or space.

Di Bello concentrates on the immediate context of where she finds herself. That is why many of her works are devoted to the city where she lives, Milan. Over the years, Di Bello has seized the multifaceted aspects of the city, the informal happenings that take place in the urban fabric, whatever in the outskirts or in the heart of a city.

The “Milano Centro” exhibition gathers a selection of the artist’s works and intrigues viewers to pay a visit to L’Enigma dell’ora (The Riddle of Time), part of the permanent collection in the museum on display in the season devoted to landscape. In this slightly unexpected representation, the statue of Napoleon by Canova that stands in the courtyard of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts is transformed into a double sun-dial.