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Anna Maritano

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  • Adresse : via San Rocco 15 20135 Milan
Anna Maritano lives and works in Milan. Since 2006 she formed her own architecture studio in Milan. She has work closely together with Giulia Griotti, to whom she is linked by a twenty-year friendship. Together with them, Angelo Lorenzi shared national and international projects and competitions. Currently they employs 3-4 collaborators who are working on projects for public buildings, private houses and urban development. A sort of small workshop on living, wher craftsmanship and reflections on the city intertwine. Anna Maritano studied architecture at Politecnico di Torino. She was awarded in 1994-1996 Pensionnaire pour l’architecture, at the Académie de France à Rome. She obtained a Ph.D. title in 1999. She was an adjunct professor at the Università di Genova Architecture School from 1999 to 2009, where he held teaching and research. She was awarded the Leone di Pietra - in the 10. International Architecture Exhibition - Biennale di Architettura in Venice - with a project on Pantelleria, a tourist harbour (Marino Narpozzi, chef) In parallel to the project activity, she has done lectures, lessons and critiques at Italian and foreign Universities, Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino, Università di Bologna, Università di Genova, University of São Paulo, Brazil. She carried out critical activity trough exhibitions and texts about Italian and international contemporary architects: Ignazio Gardella (Electa), Gino Levi Montalcini (Domus), Luigi Caccia Dominioni (Area), Uwe Schroder (Aion). In 2019 she edited (in collaboration) the Marino Narpozzi's critical writings, entitled “Conversazioni in-disciplinate sull’archietttura”, (Aion edizioni). In 2020 she published an essay “Envois e Académie de France à Rome: il disegno fra maniera e invenzione”, (NElac, USP, Brazil). she is associate with Giulia Griotti Angelo Lorenzi and Filippo Mascaretti

La stanza delle meraviglie - an art gallery

Client: Tempesta Art Gallery
Size: 150 m2
Status: Complete, 2020
Key staff: Giulia Griotti, Anna Maritano

Tempesta Gallery was born in 2020, the year of potential change. As a declared mission the gallery undertakes a direct relationship between human beings, Nature and the various socio-cultural ecosystems. An innovative project that showcases in a dynamic and unexpected way, the dialogue between ancient, contemporary, Italian and International artists, in renovated historical spaces in the centre of Milan.
The Gallery is located in Foro Bonaparte, the circular heart of the city surrounding the Sforza Castle, which has always been the prestigious home of the great middle-class families. Today, the former 19th-century shops on the ground floor have been turned into an ideal location for galleries, exhibition spaces and showrooms. In this context, the Tempesta Art Gallery takes the place of an old shop, with a single window overlooking the Foro, as evidence of its commercial vocation.
The interior is recalibrated to suit the needs of the gallery owner, who wants a "regular, smooth box of artificial light" that can maximise the value of the works on display. The rectangular double-height space is reshaped and sculpted to give it a new geometry. The existing mezzanine is redesigned, the access staircase made invisible from the entrance, and the services hidden. The desired box of light is created in the huge height entrance volume, which becomes the main exhibition space. The mezzanine hides a "Room of Wonders" in which we create a magnetic wall covered in blue alcantara that is completely modular and variable, and will be used to house small works of art, magical and imaginative objects.
Artificial and variable light requirements are carefully studied by shielding part of the windows: light tones can vary from frosty white to warm white, and modulated spots help frame the objects. A complex domotics system opens up multiple possibilities depending on the scenography required by the works to be exhibited. White is total and enveloping, blue creates a magical, intimate recess.

Reference:
Martina Landsberger
Associate professor in Architecture and Urban Design, Politecnico di Milano

The client's request: "a regular, smooth box of artificial light"; the result: a small, precious space in which, without constraints, to display and observe works of art.
Galleria Tempesta replaces one of the many workshops that used to build, and characterize, the ground floor of the eighteenth-century Foro Bonaparte area.
A simple rectangular floor plan surrounded by high white walls, skillfully lighted, overlooks the street, inviting the walker to enter and experience the luminous contrast of a wonders room in which, as in a jewel box, small and precious works of art are displayed on a wall covered in blue alcantara.

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