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Milan unveils 21st Triennale int'l exhibition program after 20-year pause

Xinhua, January 31, 2016 Adjust font size:

The program of the 21st edition of the Triennale international exhibition of design, architecture and art, which will return to Italy's Milan after a 20-year pause, was unveiled here on Saturday.

Based in the Palazzo dell'Arte (Palace of Art) in the heart of Milan, built in 1933 within one of the city's historical parks, the Triennale exhibition will run from April 2 to Sept. 12 and will take place in 12 cultural venues across the city and surrounding area.

The 21st edition is titled "21st Century: Design After Design" and is aimed at "exploring the new millennium and its great changes which involve creativity," said Milan Triennale chief Claudio De Albertis in presenting the project to professionals and journalists.

The only institution recognized by the Bureau of International Expositions (BIE), the Milan Triennale organized its international exhibition for the latest time in 1996, after which it was thought that biennials and triennials were in decline. The Milan Triennale then governing body decided that it would be better to host events continuously instead than holding an exhibition every three years.

The project for the 21st edition got underway with the support of the Enrico Letta government in 2013 which submitted the request to the BIE.

According to De Albertis, large-scale participation by countries is the key to making the Triennale international exhibition an event held every three years once again.

The 2016 edition has surpassed the 30 participant nations including Algeria, Canada, China, South Korea, France, Germany, Japan, Kazakistan, India, Iran and Mexico, De Albertis highlighted.

The number is still growing, like so the 21st edition's events that count 20 exhibits, two summer schools, three international workshops, a theater program, an award, a festival and dozens of concerts, conferences and meetings.

The year 2016 is also the one after the world exposition held in Milan in 2015, and the Milan Triennale wants to keep up a momentum that Milan has not abandoned, said Milan Culture Councillor Filippo Del Corno at the presentation. Of the nearly 40,000 square meters that will host the events, some 17,000 belong to the Expo Milano 2015 site, northwest of the design capital.

BIE Secretary-General Vicente Loscertales attended the presentation, saying "Twenty years after the latest edition, we are very happy of welcoming this new international exhibition."

Loscertales underlined that the upcoming exhibition will not only be the moment of an inventory, but "an inventory and a vision of the future, a very large vision of what happened during the last 20 years and of future prospectives." Endit