Exhibition
Elisa Sighicelli
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February 21 — May 20, 2025
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, The Collector’s Room
The Poldi Pezzoli Museum presents Elisa Sighicelli’s exhibition, a visionary exploration that reinterprets the museum’s collection of antique glass through contemporary art.
Curated by Lavinia Galli
An immersive experience in the Collector’s Room that transforms historical objects into fantastical entities through the innovative use of photography and light. An event that celebrates the dialogue between past and present, continuing the Museum’s tradition of opening up to the contemporary.
The Poldi Pezzoli Museum continues its commitment to bridging the art of the past with contemporary expressions with a new exhibition by Elisa Sighicelli. The exhibition focuses on reinterpreting the Museum’s collection of antique glass, offering a novel and transfiguring perspective on these extraordinary objects.
Through her innovative practice of photography, Elisa Sighicelli explores the materiality and perception of images, transforming the qualities of transparency and liquidity of glass into fantastical entities. The works, created specifically for the Collector’s Room, propose a dreamlike journey in which light becomes the means to deconstruct visual conventions and reveal the poetry hidden in the smallest details.
This exhibition is part of the Poldi Pezzoli Museum’s program, active since 2011, that involves contemporary artists in reinterpreting masterpieces from the collection. Elisa Sighicelli, with her distinctive approach, continues this dialogue, offering an original contribution that celebrates the evocative power of art and the encounter between different eras.
Info
WHERE
Collector’s Room, Museo Poldi Pezzoli
WHERE
February 21 — May 20, 2025
ENTRANCE
Full — € 15,00; Reduced Over 65 — € 13,00; Reduced Young — € 10,00
GROUP RESERVATION
A reservation for groups is required online
HOURS
Wednesday — Monday: 10:00 a.m. — 6:00 p.m. (last entrance 5:00 p.m.)
CONTACTS
Elisa Sighicelli, born in Turin in 1968, is internationally recognized for her ability to redefine the boundaries of photography. She has exhibited in prestigious institutions such as Castello di Rivoli, LACMA in Los Angeles and the Brooklyn Museum in New York, as well as collaborated with world-renowned galleries. His works reflect a unique vision, capable of transforming what is concealed into pure visual poetry.
poldi pezzolI MUSEUM
Poldi Pezzoli Museum
Museo Poldi Pezzoli in the centre of Milan, close to the Duomo Cathedral and the Scala Theatre, the Poldi Pezzoli Museum welcomes you! Opened in 1881, it was the house of the noble Milanese Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli (1822-1879). Avid art collector, he had gathered here paintings as well as sculptures, carpets, laces, arms and armour, jewellery, clocks, porcelain and glass.
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