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MATRICI DELLO SPAZIO. FILO. FORMA. TENSIONE.
The Novocomum, a residential building designed by Giuseppe Terragni between 1927 and 1929, represents the first complete example of modern architecture in Italy applied to housing. Its innovative structure, built on a balance of elegant and light volumes, is defined by a skilful use of planes, transparencies and colours, which relate both to the surrounding landscape and to each other. The result is a harmonious architectural organism, capable of conveying a sense of intimacy and warmth despite the clarity of its rationalist language.
It is in this context that the Terragni Archive finds its place, a precious location where the architect's projects, photographs, documents and original materials are collected and preserved: what A. A. Terragni defines as the “original score” of Giuseppe Terragni's work. The archive is not only a repository of memory, but a living environment, traversed by relationships and continuous references between past and present. It is a place that “feels like home”, where architectural design enters into a natural dialogue with the contemporary works of the artists who inhabit it and those who are welcomed on a temporary basis. This domestic and creative dimension transforms the archive into a cultural square, a meeting and discussion point, where intellectual, artistic and human exchange becomes the real driving force behind shared research. The space also includes the studios of artists Attilio Terragni, Riccardo Longo and Chiara Smedile, who contribute to making Novocomum a lively, inhabited and constantly changing place.
With Matrici dello spazio – Filo. Forma. Tensione (Matrices of Space – Thread. Form. Tension), the Archive connects with the artist Mimmo Totaro, a leading figure in Italian fibre art. The exhibition presents a significant collection of works that span his entire career and manifest themselves through multiple forms of expression. The internal link within Totaro's multifaceted production is a deep love for textiles, which is reflected above all in the presence of taut threads that run through and define the works; threads that, even when they lose their three-dimensionality and are transformed into graphic signs, continue to generate visual vibrations that oscillate, overlap and blur the boundaries between abstraction and perception. The spatial relationships that are created have all the flavour of architecture, the “third art” and another of Totaro's great loves.
Twenty-eight of the artist's works will be on display, including sculptures, drawings, prints and large wall panels.
SPACE MATRICES. THREAD. FORM. TENSION.
Mimmo Totaro at the Terragni Archive
from 9 December 2025 to 6 January 2026
Opening hours: 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., Tuesday to Sunday. Closed on Mondays.
Tickets:
€5 full price
€3 reduced price (students up to 18 years old, over 65s)
Free (children up to 10 years old, disabled people and carers)
The catalogue can be purchased for an additional €2 on top of the admission price.
Info:
mimmototaro@gmail.com
+39 335 6127157
+39 3286299568
In collaboration with:
ARTE&ARTE
COMunico
ELLECISTUDIO
Under the patronage of:
PROVINCIA DI COMO
CAMERA DI COMMERCIO COMO-LECCO
With the contribution of:
LUXSERR serramenti
TAROT CARDS NIGHT
Friday, 16, December 5.30 pm – 8.30 pm
Esoteric evening cards
For reservations prenota@miniartextil.it
Miniarte
Artist workshops for children 6 – 13 years old – one and half hour
Sunday, December, 11 at 3 pm
Universal loves
Textile workshop
Other appointments being defined
Reservation at didattica@miniartextil.it
Guided tours at the exhibition with Delegazione FAI Como
Guided tours at the exhibition with the artists in collaboration with Delegazione FAI Como.
Sunday, 4, December 10 am 12 am 2 pm 4 pm
Information at como@delegazionefai.fondoambiente.it
MINIARTE WINTER – CHILDREN CAMPUS
For children 6 – 12 years old
Tuesday, 27, December – 31 2022*
Every day from 9 am to 5 pm with the exception of Friday, 31, December from 9 am to 2 pm.
A week to spend days under the banner of fantasy, contemporary art, experimenting with many different languages.
For info and reservations didattica@miniartextil.it
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Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am – 6 pm
Last entry at 5.30 pm
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