Luigi Veronelli – camminare la terra – an exhibition on Luigi Veronelli

«Those who walks the earth know that the important thing is not arriving, but proceeding step by step. Walking the earth is to express our living in constant motion.

Sometimes you have to stop to rest or to think and to rejoice or cry, and finally start walking again. Also stop to remember and relive the road travelled». Luigi Veronelli



Luigi Veronelli – camminare la terra (walking the earth). An expression that in its essence blends admirably two recurring elements in the thinking and activity of Luigi Veronelli.

It is walking the earth that Veronelli met women and men, loved their products and found the tools useful for work and for consumption. Hence the decision of the Committee, created to enhance the work and thought of the great intellectual, to name the exhibition Luigi Veronelli – camminare la terra, with a motto that is manifest, will, invitation and that was, by Veronelli, a prophecy. The exhibition will be the prologue to Expo Milano 2015 and his great theme Feeding the planet, which will be celebrated by the Triennale with the biannual exhibition of Germano Celant Art & Food.

Luigi Veronelli – camminare la terra will investigate the method of working, the eclectic training and the tracks that show the way towards a desirable and necessary future, putting at the center of all the earth and material culture. The ongoing work by the Committee on the immense archive, made available by the family and never investigated before in a systematic way, wants to draw a more precise profile of the versatility of Veronelli and, at the same time, brings out other great personalities such as Luigi Carnacina, who kept up a regular correspondence with Veronelli, Gianni Brera, Silvio Coppola, his designers and many more.

The heart of the exhibition will be symbolically represented by a transposition of its large wine cellar, in a synaesthetic path that is useful to approach such a complex personality. And alongside this, the telling of great symbolic stories, already partly anticipated by the personalities who have enlivened the evening of 2nd February at the Social Theatre of Bergamo.

But it will not be a centered on wine path, rather wine will be the starting point to focus on the complex personality of Luigi, called Gino, Veronelli: from his relationship with the culture of food and land products (extra virgin olive oil in particular) , to its focus on the tools of the table (in the archive, precious unpublished drawings were found).

Finally, we will study the legacies in many areas, about its "glocal" insights, the poetic power of his thought that pushes to work with high concreteness, its sensitivity to social issues that has never been a mission statement, rather a practice, through which give dignity to the earth through products of excellent quality.



Production: The Milan Triennale and decade Committee Luigi Veronelli

Period: January 21 / February 22, 2015

Space: Impluvium

Curatorship: Alberto and Aldo Capatti Colonetti, with the collaboration of Gian Arturo Rota

Designers: Franco Origoni and Anna Steiner

Side events: tastings, meetings, workshops

Free admission

Color catalogue: Couplings – Octagon, national distribution

Organizational management: Chinese Box System, Milan