Fantasy Access Code

“Fantasy Access Code. Alcantara and 6 artists on a journey through the Apartment of the Prince” is the second show in a cycle curated by Davide Quadrio and Massimo Torrigiani, aimed at reinterpreting a space with strong historical connotations along contemporary lines. The company, which produces and sells Alcantara® worldwide, in this new project continues the exploration of the expressive potential offered by its material through the work of some of the most re ned and sensitive artists of our day: all from different creative spheres, they were invited to address the specificities of a unique medium, in the quite exceptional context of the Apartment of the Prince.

  The title in Italian, “Codice di avviamento fantastico”, refers to the mechanism of the same name as described by Gianni Rodari (1920 – 1980) in his booklet The Grammar of Fantasy: An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories (Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 1996; first published 1973). The author explains how to set up a self-sustaining chain of ideas, associations of marvellous images and views to construct literary texts. In the same way, the exhibition itinerary is structured like a cosmology of amazing worlds arising from the direct relationship with the spaces, dislocated along the ten rooms that make up the Apartment of the Prince.

Each one constitutes a stop-off point along the imaginary journey undertaken by each artist, but also a starting point for the imagination of each and every visitor to these spaces – normally closed to the public – letting them enter parallel worlds, casting their gaze beyond the threshold and thus overcoming the limit between reality and imagination.

28 March – 30 April 2017
Fantasy Access Code. Alcantara and 6 artists on a journey through the Apartment of the Prince
curated by Davide Quadrio and Massimo Torrigiani
Palazzo Reale
piazza Duomo 12, Milan