{"id":133305,"date":"2025-03-17T14:31:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2025\/03\/berlino-brutalist-italy\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T14:41:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:41:31","slug":"berlino-brutalist-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/diplomazia-culturale\/2025\/03\/berlino-brutalist-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin, &#8220;Brutalist Italy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The photo exhibition \u2018<strong>Brutalist Italy\u2019<\/strong> was inaugurated in Berlin. The exhibition is dedicated to the <strong>photo documentation<\/strong> created by Roberto <strong>Conte<\/strong> and Stefano <strong>Perego<\/strong>, who travelled <strong>over 20,000 kilometres across the Italian peninsula<\/strong> to photograph the <strong>buildings of Brutalism<\/strong>, ranging from the <em>Casa del Portuale<\/em> in Naples to the <strong>Jesi Cemetery<\/strong>, from the <strong>Temple of Monte Grisa in Trieste<\/strong> to the residential complex <strong><em>Le Lavatrici<\/em> in Genoa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The idea for the exhibition stems from the <strong>publication of the same name<\/strong> by Conte and Perego (<em>Brutalist Italy. Concrete Architecture from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea<\/em>, Fuel London 2023), which presents a selection of <strong>more than one hundred Italian Brutalist buildings<\/strong> described through <strong>146 pictures<\/strong>, and has met with <strong>considerable public and critical acclaim internationally.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The introduction by Adrian <strong>Forty reads as follows<\/strong>: \u201cIt is above all in the willingness to recognise that <strong>concrete<\/strong> can refer to more than one era, representing both <strong>the present (or future) and the past,<\/strong> that <strong>Italian architects<\/strong> have distinguished themselves from their colleagues abroad. During the <strong>20th century<\/strong>, concrete was predominantly considered a future-oriented material: it indicated an era that had not yet arrived and it was strenuously denied it also had a past. But the specific circumstances in Italy made architects eager to represent its past as well as its future.\u201d&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It is an initiative of the <strong>DGDP &#8211; Unit for the Coordination of Italian Cultural Institutes<\/strong> of the <strong>Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation<\/strong>, in collaboration with the <strong>Italian Cultural Institute in Berlin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: \u00a9 Riccardo Malberti<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The photo exhibition \u2018Brutalist Italy\u2019 was inaugurated in Berlin. The exhibition is dedicated to the photo documentation created by Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego, who travelled over 20,000 kilometres across the Italian peninsula to photograph the buildings of Brutalism, ranging from the Casa del Portuale in Naples to the Jesi Cemetery, from the Temple of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[32,9],"class_list":["post-133305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomazia-culturale","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-europa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133307,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133305\/revisions\/133307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}