Andrea Branzi By Toyo Ito. Continuous Present

A major exhibition devoted entirely to Andrea Branzi, a key figure in the practice and thought of Italian design between the last century and this one, as seen through the eyes of Pritzker prize winner Toyo Ito, Branzi’s long-time friend and collaborator. The exhibition’s installations, objects, drawings and photographs all play off one another, reinforcing key themes explored by Branzi’s work. The exhibition also examines his working relations with two institutions: the Triennale, where he served as a designer, theoretician and curator between 1973 and 2022, and the Fondation Cartier, for which he created the spaces of the 2008 exhibition Open Enclosures. Biographical highlights accompany visitors from Branzi’s earliest radical experiments with Archizoom to his work with Alchimia and Memphis, up through the crowning achievement of his anthropological approach to design. A large, site-specific installation focuses on No Stop City (1969–1972), a project symbolic of his critical outlook on the modern metropolis.