The labyrinth in the basement of Milan reopens on March 20, an immersive experience between archetypal sculptures inspired by Gilgamesh, between light and shadow
A brief invitation to get lost in the subdued echoes of an ancient story, sliding along corridors carved in a caressing darkness: here is the labyrinth of Arnaldo Pomodoro, reopened to the public from 20 March in the Milanese basement re -classified of Solari 35. Here the work becomes a tangible dream, a schedule of mythologies and archetypal memories that unfolds under the fee of the visitor, transforming the understanding of space into a temporal and sensory experience.
A journey between myth and matter
Going down to the belly of the city, the threshold of a maze without plants or roofs of heaven is crossed: the only light driving comes from wires of new lamps, designed by viabizzuno and orchestrated by a Casambi system, which cheer the work of a warm and controlled glow. Each wall is a fragment of ancestral history: cunes, signs and pierces recall now forgotten languages, such as the hieroglyphics of a primordial epic that finds inspiration in the ancient poem of Gilgamesh. It is an idiom that speaks of initiatory trips, of comparisons with the unknown, of returns changed by the adventure.
The artistic beat of tomato
“In my labyrinth, time becomes sculpture and the space becomes a story,” wrote the teacher. Born in the heart of Montefeltro in 1926 and landed in Milan in 1954, Tomato impressed its artistic autobiography in the matter: enigmatic high schools, changes of light and shadow, tears and threads. This place is the synthesis of an entire career: there, the carved surfaces reflect the artist’s archetypes and creative stages, mixing traces of his most famous sculptures with new sap of forms in the making.
An enfilade of shows and costume
In dialogue with the Fendi maison, which welcomed the work in the renewed spaces of its headquarter, the labyrinth coexists with two “costumes-sculptures”: Didone, dressed for Marlowe in Gibellina, and Creon, shaped for Stravinsky in Siena. These works-costume works, exposed in the atrium, expand the visual story with their material theatricality, as statues ready to walk.
An experience to book
The visit, lasting about 45 minutes, is not a simple guided tour, but an immersion in a ritual of art: you cross ethereal corridors, ancient vibrations are perceived and, finally, you re -emerge in the world with a residue of mystery. The access by reservation – individual, for groups and schools – are already open on the website of the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation. In the subsoil of Milan, art does not show itself: you live, listen and dream.
