'ABC of Trentino' Le Gallerie 'ABC of Trentino' Le Gallerie

2009


  • From: January 2009
  • To: December 2009
  • City: Trento
  • Country: Italy
  • Type: museum
  • Area: 6000 mq
  • Client: Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino
  • Curator: Jeffrey Schnapp - Stanford Humanities Lab
  • Graphics: Gruppe Gut - Bolzano
  • Production: Filmwork - Trento
The Trento Tunnels are an experiment in the repurposing of an abandoned industrial site, a reinvention of the history museum, an animated archive, an act of healing a tear in the urban fabric of a regional capital, a pair of urban gardens born in an asphalt crib, and a collective enterprise involving everybody.
The 2009-2010 edition was built on the same bifurcation between an immersive black and a didactic white tunnel, with a panoramic history of the Trentino Region sectioned into a playful alphabet , much like a Munarian children's book.
The visitor's itinerary is now contained within a single tunnel divided into a large passage where enormous sculptural letters extend into hieroglyphics, unfolding both macro- and micro-histories, and a small passage in which the human topography of the region is represented by means of a narrow gallery of talking heads organized in a rigorous North-South sequence.
A new modular system of exhibition spaces and open rooms have been developed for the white tunnel, which now finds its functions multiplied as a meeting hall, performance space, gallery and laboratory.



Photo credit: Pierluigi Faggion



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