Installation during the Milano Design Week, April 2009
Project-group of the Faculty of Design and Arts
Free University of Bolzano, Italy
Typography, material, concept
Attimo sospeso is a typographic installation in the cloister of San Simpliciano, Milan. The work intends to provide a calming moment for the Milano Design Week visitors. The white banners interact with the architecture and the cut out letters let the frescos come through. By walking around the cloister the following thoughts appear above the visitors heads (CW in italian, CCW in english):
il suono dei miei passi nel frastuono della città the sound of my footsteps absorbed by the roar of the city
mi fermo e sento la pesantezza dei miei piedi
tante belle sedie, ma niente per sedersi
finalmente mi fermo
I stop and feel the weight of my feet
so many beautiful chairs, but nowhere to sit
finally a quiet place, I might even stop
Project-group:
Nike Auer, Dorit Birkner, Christian Crusius, Mariagiovanna Di Iorio, Jörg Gleiter, Andreas Goebel, Carmen Küster, Wilco Lensink, Viktor Matic, Kuno Prey, Joseph Schmidt-Klingenberg, Bettina Schwalm, Dominik Schwarz, Lisa Seitz, Daniel Tauber, Simon Tumler, Sarah Tolpeit, Paul Voggenreiter, Maximilian Winkel.
A video documentation is available on domus TV and on the pan-dan blog.
Font: Scala Bauzanensis
(based on “Scala” by Martin Majoor)
Material: Tyvek 110g/qm
Photos: Daniel Tauber.
Attimo Sospeso: Cloister of San Simpliciano
Attimo Sospeso: Opening
Attimo Sospeso: Illuminated installation
Attimo Sospeso: Detail
Attimo Sospeso: Detail at night
Attimo Sospeso: Shadows on the wall