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Es Devlin. Library of Light, Pinacoteca di Brera – Cortile d’Onore - Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025
Sunday 7th April saw the inauguration of the installation created by the British artist and designer, in collaboration with the Pinacoteca di Brera and the Grande Brera, with the contribution of Feltrinelli and the support of A2A. Beverages by Select
Library of Light, a luminous rotating sculpture designed by the British artist and designer Es Devlin for the Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025, occupies the middle of the seventeenth-century Cortile d'Onore, which connects the Pinacoteca di Brera, the Braidense National Library and the Academy of Fine Arts.
The kinetic installation, consisting of illuminated shelves containing over 3,200 books, was inaugurated on 7th April and will remain open until May 5th, hosting a series of meetings that will interweave art, literature, craftsmanship and reflections on our time through the voices of artists, writers, curators and innovators.
Es Devlin. Library of Light, Pinacoteca di Brera - Cortile d'Onore - Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025
Es Devlin. Library of Light, Pinacoteca di Brera - Cortile d'Onore - Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025
Maria Porro, President of Salone del Mobile.Milano
Maria Porro, President of Salone del Mobile.Milano
Es Devlin, Artist
The opening evening was attended by more than 500 guests, with contributions from Maria Porro, President of the Salone del Mobile.Milano, and Es Devlin. To mark the occasion, the audience was treated to an extraordinary musical performance featuring a violin solo with phrases from the writings of Maria Gaetana Agnesi spoken by the British artist, and readings by the British actor Benedict Cumberbatch from The Order of Time by the theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli.
Library of Light is a Salone project in collaboration with the Pinacoteca di Brera and Grande Brera, with the contribution of Feltrinelli and the support of A2A. Beverages by Select.
Es Devlin
Stefano Boeri, Carla Morogallo, Marco Sammicheli
Rich Aybar, Felix Burrichter
Carlo Urbinati, Giovanna Rizzo, Luca Nichetto, Francesco Dompieri
Bethan Laura Wood, Sabine Marcelis
Margherita Palli Rota, guests
Glenn Pushelberg, George Yabu
Carlo Urbinati, Elia Vismara, guest
Angelo Crespi, Marco Sabetta, Claudio Sgaraglia, Alessandra Repini, Arturo Artom
Max Sortino
Tiziano Guardini
Sabina Belli, Claudio Bianucci
Eddy De Vita, Emanuela De Vita
Maurizio Zanella
Maria Cristina Didero
Charley Vezza
Elsa Marotta, Vincenzo Viscione
Angelo Crespi, guests
Pasquale Junior Natuzzi, guest
Giorgio Galotti, guest
Melania De Nichilo Rizzoli
Donata Berger
Giulia Innocenzi, guest
Germano D'Acquisto, Valentina Dell'Amore
Bill Durgin
Alessandra Repini
Sabato De Sarno
Francesca Ragazzi, Federico Sarica
Greta Ferro, guest
Gildakoral Flora
7 April 2025
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