Frigoriferi Milanesi, conservation

Alice Turrina’s photographs reveal the unknown city. On the outskirts of Milan she identifies a new centre, represented by the hermetic red Frigoriferi Milanesi building. The building appears to be everywhere, for it’s impossible to take a photograph without it in Via Piranesi, as it is designed to dominate the urban space around it.
Turrina's photographs study its contours and seek out the moments in which the red, black and glass volume touches on the city; in these images the Frigoriferi Milanesi unexpectedly disappears. It becomes just a theatrical stage set which the photographer uses as she turns her attention to the context, to the city landscape that until just a moment ago seemed to “suffer” from the heavy presence of the red glass volume. And so nineteenth-century balconies, roofs from the thirties and cladding from the seventies appear, and along with them the history of a city that adds episodes of modernity over layers and layers of history. Layers that are both inside and outside the buildings: Alice Turrina goes into the workshops where works of art are restored in the Frigoriferi Milanesi.
The city continues to show us new faces.

Mara Corradi

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