Diego Marcon’s Dramoletti exhibition in Milan: ready to make your heart break?

If you have five minutes of time and you want let your heart break into piecesyour unconscious enters into turmoil, and then, the two then talk to each other and take stock of things a bit, go into Piazza Duomo in Milanpass the Cathedralturn right into via Beccaria and stop in Piazza Beccaria at number 8, and enter at Jerome Theater. Haven’t you ever seen it? It is possible, because it is the smallest and perhaps least known theater in Milan, but wonderful, a “little Scala” born in 1898 with the decorations of the architect (of the Gallery) Giuseppe Mengoni to host the puppet shows (those of the Colla Brothers above all). It is here that the exhibition awaits you until 30 June **Dramoletti Of Diego Marconproject of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation that, with the curator Massimiliano Gionibrought a stage of his «mobile museum» to Milan and here.

Inside the theater you will meet Ludwig, a sad and aware-looking child who enters the stage in the hall of the little theater whirling in the air whipped by a storm of thunder and lightning. He is lit by a burning match. And sing. She sings an angelic aria in a white voice which however is a request for help, a (perhaps) inescapable awareness. What does he sing? What does he say? It only takes five minutes to find out. Better not know anything in advance, to be able to enter with all senses unprepared and ready to listen and be devoured by this dreamlike but extremely real world, which goes to speak with our past dreams, our doubts, fears, imagined and repressed worlds, with our humanity, for which we would like to cry out: «Please, save him !».

Diego Marcon, Ludwig, 2018 [still]Video, CGI animation, color, sound loop of 8’14” Credit: © Diego Marcon Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London

Diego Marcon, Ludwig, 2018 [still]Video, CGI animation, color, sound loop of 8’14” Credit: © Diego Marcon Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London

Diego Marcon, Ludwig, 2018 [still]Video, CGI animation, color, sound loop of 8’14” Credit: © Diego Marcon Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London

Diego Marcon, Ludwig, 2018 [still]Video, CGI animation, color, soundloop of 8’14”Credit: © Diego Marcon Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London

Diego Marcon, Ludwig, 2018 [still]Video, CGI animation, color, sound loop of 8’14” Credit: © Diego Marcon Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London

Diego Marcon, Il Malatino, 2017 [still]16 mm film, colour, silent dur: 23 min, loopedCredit: © Diego Marcon, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ,London

Diego Marcon, The Parents’ Room, 2021[still] Digital video transferredfrom 35mm film, CGIanimation, colour, soundloopof 6’23”Courtesy the Artist andSadie Coles HQ, London Produced thanks to theendowment from the ItalianCouncil, 2019Collection of Fondazione Donnaregina per le articontemporanee – MuseoMadre

Built in a few months in 1868, the Gerolamo Theater in Piazza Cesare Beccaria immediately presented itself as a miniature staircase, with two tiers of boxes, a gallery and an audience, for a total capacity of 600 seats at the time.

Diego Marcon

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Massimiliano Gioni

Marco DeScalzi

Beatrice Trussardi

Source: Vanity Fair

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