31 good reasons to visit Igloos

The boundary between Art and Architecture is labile, it often crumbles and breaks and what remains is a wonderful example of beauty and perfection.

It is exactly what I thought when the visit to the exhibition Igloos by Mario Merz at Pirelli Hangar Bicocca ended.

31 three-dimensional semispherical sculptures scattered in the exhibition space almost forming a small city, 31 occasions which the artist Mario Merz, one of the representatives of the so-called “Poor Art”, experiences with a new concept of space through the most varied materials, 31 good reasons for visiting this exhibition which will take place at the Hangar until February 24 th 2019.

“Igloos” by Mario Merz – Hangar Bicocca.

But what fascinates the most in Igloos?

Surely the iconic and well recognizable form of the works, the one of igloo, which refers to a primitive action that has been inherent in man since ancient times: the one of living.

Definitely the materials, simple but strongly evocative which Merz has composed his sculptures of, glass flakes, fragments of stone, branches of wood and neon with bold colors, which stimulate our five senses with their physical characteristics.

Walking freely through the installations, increase the temptation to enter the Igloos and touch the sculptures, but we can only watch them from the outside and let ourselves be transported with their vision in an almost enchanted and fairytale world.

The beauty of exhibitions like Igloos is to give the visitor the opportunity to live an immersive experience in the universe of art (besides, for free) and once again Pirelli Hangar Bicocca proves more than up to that task.