Assab One takes place in the former GEA (Grafiche Editoriali Ambrosiane) factory, a historic Italian printing company made available by the property. It is an exhibition created thanks to the possibility of using a large area (2500 square meters), the availability of the curators and organizers, and the enthusiasm of 24 young artists, some of them already well known on the international scene, called to create works inspired by this event and this place.
An initiative in which everyone participates without receiving any remuneration, because it is meant to be an opportunity to express themselves, confront each other and dialogue with the Milan of art in a space free of all constraints.

The artists invited to Assab One belong to the generation born in the 1970s. Many of them have been active on the art scene for some time, protagonists of major events, including international ones, both in private galleries and in public spaces. Others are completely unknown, at their first group exhibitions, but with already structured work and strong personalities.
Each of them was proposed to create a new work in a chosen area within this space articulated in very large rooms, but also in small rooms, such as to allow the exhibition of works made with the most diverse techniques, from the most traditional, such as painting and sculpture, to installations, videos and performances.
Assab One becomes for these artists an opportunity for experimentation and confrontation with a place strongly characterized by its architecture and memory, far from the traditional white spaces of the gallery and museum.

We would like to thank: Real Productions, the students of the Master’s Program Organization and Communication of Visual Arts – 6th edition, the architecture firm A+.

Roberto Pinto

Independent curator. Lives and works in Milan. He was editor-in-chief of Flash Art Italia (1993/96), organized and curated exhibitions such as Subway (1997) Stranger Knocking – Italian Pavilion at the Melbourne Biennale (1999) – Arte all’Arte (2000) Short Stories (Milan, La Fabbrica del Vapore, 2001) and Transform (Trieste, public spaces, 2001). He teaches History of Art at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo. Since 1994, he has curated the lecture series La Generazione delle Immagini where more than 80 international artists, critics and curators have spoken.

Laura Garbarino

She has worked in London at Sotheby’s and Christie’s International, and at Faggionato Fine Arts gallery. She has collaborated with the Milan gallery Gio’ Marconi. She recently curated the exhibition Amor Vacui for the City of Milan – Youth Sector, in the Openspace space in Piazza Duomo.