Assab One per Via Padova è meglio di Milano

Loredana Celano, Leo Torri, Tutamondo

May 2012

Assab One per Via Padova è meglio di Milano

Loredana Celano, Leo Torri, Tutamondo

May 2012

Assab One participated the event via Padova is better than Milan with three exhibitions, the result of different creative pathways sharing a thread: the participation of several citizens working, living and passing through via Padova and surroundings.

Le tre mostre

Loredana Celano We all do the same way
“(…) I believe integration should be based on common experiences. Via Padova is a place of contamination, a street populated by people from all-over-the-world, and for this it commands that care and that respect the Italians too have the chance to rediscover. Telling in images the life of via Padova means showing the story of a changing quarter in a developing city: a necessary and possible cohabitation between different people puzzling by daily common acts. (Loredana Celano)

Via Padova People, curated by Leo Torri
This exhibition, that is a communication project too, means to link all the street with a unique and recognizable mark: besides Assab One, copies of the placards are displayed in the windows of the shopkeepers joining the initiative. The aim is to let the retailers share in the via Padova valorization event, giving visibility to the businesses that, with their presence, liven up the quarter and aid the dialogue among the different ethnic groups of the street.

Tutamondo, Urban Disorientations
In 2010, during the first edition of Via Padova is better than Milan, in cooperation with the Cooperative Tempo per l’Infanzia, Tutamondo produced a relational art project with residents and passersby. People were invited to a photo-portrait into two sets in piazzetta Mosso. Now, in Assab One, an installation returns to the quarter the 200 pictures of the shooting, besides the ones taken during a feast in the Rom Camp of via Idro, in Adriano quarter in 2011.

Biografie

Loredana Celano, photographer and designer, lives in via Padova since 2009. Her shoots, usually  black & white, capture people state of mind by simple acts. This is her first solo exhibition.

Leo Torri is a well-known still-life and architecture photographer, collaborating with the major specialized magazines in Italy and abroad. Its Studio is located in a via Padova side street. In order to achieve this ambitious project, he involved several photographers: Veronica Frisicaro, Silvestro Rivolta, Marco Reggi, Eusebio Russotto, Valentina Zanzi, Marco Zavagno.

Tutamondo (in Esperanto: infinite space) is a collective founded in 2008 by Alessia Bernardini and Francesca Marconi, working on research projects and artistic acts on the territory. Photo by Alessia Bernardini, Francesca Marconi, Yacine Benseddik. The exhibition is supported by Assab One and Rane Volanti Project.