"Italo Rota"

Kitchens & Invaders @ Salone Milan 2015

Kitchens & Invaders @ Salone Milan 2015

Kitchens & Invaders at the Museum of Design in the Triennale di Milan, tells of the gradual but inexorable mutation of kitchen utensils into machines and robots.

It takes its inspiration from the science-fiction novel The Body Snatchers, written by Jack Finneyin 1955, and from the film based on the book and directed by Don Siegel. Both have come to be seen as bringing about a break and a transformation in the collective imagination

This is an army of “invaders” which, since the mid-nineteenth century and the advent of industrialisation, has spread out and taken the place of many human activities in the kitchen.

Arts & Food – Rituals Since 1851 @ Salone Milan 2015

Arts & Food – Rituals Since 1851 @ Salone Milan 2015

The exhibition Arts & Foods. Rituals since 1851 ( running from Apr 9 to Nov 1, 2015 ) is the first section of the EXPO 2015 to open, as well as the only thematic area of the Expo located in the center of Milan.

The exhibition is housed in the Triennale di Milano gallery spaces in via Alemagna, extending over 7,000 square meters internally and utilises external garden courtyard spaces as well

The exhibition curated by Germano Celant, was inspired by the main theme of the EXPO Milan 2015, “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”, is aimed to investigate the manifold relationship between food, its rituals and different means of artistic expression over a long period – from 1851 ( the year of the first World Exposition in London and the starting point of modernity ) to present day.