Luigi Filetici «МОСКВА XXI»

Images of a metropolis in transformation
Curator: Umberto Zanetti — Zanettidesign studio
With the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affaires of Italy and the Embassy of Italy in Moscow
Exhibition and graphic design by Zanettidesign studio, Luigi Filetici and Paolo Figini
Exhibition in Moscow is a part of the cultural program “Year of Italy in Russia” Milan exposition is a part of the event «La Festa del Architettura»

April 04 — April 30 2005
The Ruined Annex

The city of Moscow is one of the most extraordinary laboratories of the contemporary urban reality. The Italian architect and photographer Luigi Filetici shows his work in the exhibition МОСКВА XXI, which opened the 4th of April 2005 in Moscow at the Schusev Museum of Architecture — MUAR.
The exposition, through a philological and detailed research, recounts through architecture the visual adventure that has characterized the Moscow skyline from the avant garde of the twenties to the present.

These images and details reveal a city in perpetual movement in a dynamic present, while also revealing its historic character, full of recent and historic events. The exhibition is a fascinating journey of discovery.

Moscow, situated at the frontier of Europe, is characterized by original features that are difficult to comprehend at first glance. In the social, economic and political spheres — as those of urbanism and architecture — the fifteen years since the end of the USSR and the fall of communism has changed the city in profound and complex ways. These shifts have made Moscow a showcase of urban mutations, unique to the world.

These large-format photos, in black and white, begin with the extraordinary Constructivism period, move through the monumental and austere Stalinist era to the social building impulse of Khrushchev, up to the controversial architecture of the new post-Soviet shopping mall. Accompanying the photos is a film, created to narrate the dynamic movement of Moscow's enormous population — its mobility, rhythms, and the humor of this people on the road to the future.

Luigi Filetici gives the audience a personal reflection of the city and an analysis of an urban territory in continuous flux, absolutely rich and stratified. This research continues beyond the actual photographs.

Luigi Filetici teaches Industrial Design at the Politecnico University of Milan and Rome's La Sapienza. He works in Italy and overseas.
 

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