Installation par of the Monditalia exhibition at the 14^th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia,“a scan across the Italian territory from South to North, and more extensively from Africa to the Alps and Europe.”

“Effimero: Or the Postmodern Italian Condition” tells the story of the series of ephemeral works of architecture constructed in Italy between 1977 and 1989. During the late 1970s and 1980s, as a response to the socio-political turmoil known as the anni di piombo (Years of Lead), a number of ‘events’ took place around ephemeral structures. Theatre, performing arts and other forms of entertainment acted as catalysts of a new collective imagination which, coupled with the rediscovery of the architectural language of the baroque, gave rise to a new sense of the spectacle, culminating in the Pink Floyd’s 1989 Venice concert, for which an entire artificial island was created off St Mark’s.  “Effimero: or the Postmodern Italian Condition” is both an archive of original drawings, photos and press cuttings of the structures that sustained these spectacles, and a sensitive and interpretative installation recalling an important moment in the Italian cultural scene.

“Effimero: Or the Postmodern Italian Condition” was curated by Léa-Catherine Szacka. For this project, Léa-Catherine has worked with U67 – an architecture practice based in Oslo and founded by Italians Fabio Gigone and Angela Gigliotti, the Canadian graphic designer and photographer Valérie Paquette and the French architect Julien Sage-Thomas.

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