Following a major restoration project, a wing of the Palazzo Gabrielli Mignanelli – built in the late 19th century as the Propaganda Fide school and printing house – becomes PM23, the beating heart of the Foundation’s cultural activities. The Foundation is dedicated to the arts, fashion, and creativity and is inspired by the important role of the founders and their legacy. The exhibition program opens with Orizzonti | Rosso (Horizons | Red), which surveys the color red through the lens of art and fashion. Red is not just a hue; it is a symbolic and aesthetic force of extraordinary power.
Throughout the centuries, red has maintained its evocative power, enriching itself with poetic and symbolic meanings. Intimately linked to the fashion world and charged with emotional significance, red represents the heart of Valentino Garavani’s creative legacy. Garavani is the only couturier to have built such a recognizable body of work around a single color, transforming it into the common thread of his career and the hallmark of his artistic identity.
The exhibition, on view through August 31, presents fifty of Valentino Garavani’s most iconic red designs, spanning more than five decades of his career. These designs are flanked by thirty modern and contemporary artworks, many of which are being displayed in Rome for the first time. Featured artists include Andy Warhol, Clyfford Still, Cy Twombly, Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louise Bourgeois, Gerhard Richter, Helen Frankenthaler, Marlene Dumas, Mark Rothko, and Pablo Picasso, as well as Italian masters such as Afro Basaldella, Agostino Bonalumi, Alberto Burri, Alighiero Boetti, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Lucio Fontana, and Mario Schifano.
Photo © Whatever Milan; Massimo Listri
