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In Japanese, one of the various meanings of “ie” is “building”, and opening shortly in the heart of San Gimignano in a historic building, ieedificio57 is a new non-profit research centre for the visual arts that aims to host domestic and international events.

Transformed from a family home in an ancient building, the premises of ie edificio57 comprises exhibition spaces on two levels and an underground project room named “Zattera” (“Raft”).

Spearheaded by artist Michelangelo Consani, this new cultural platform intends to establish connections between the artist’s own artistic practices and that of different personalities from the art world. Through this medium, Consani seeks to attain a better understanding of the sensibilities and planning processes of the hosted artist by way of forging a dialogue with another artist towards whom he feels a sense of “sentimental affinity”.

The first artist invited into a dialogue of this nature is Loris Cecchini.

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second floor

first floor

ground floor

The building

ARTIST PROJCTS

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Loris Cecchini (Milan,1969)

is an Italian artist who has established himself internationally in the last decade with solo exhibitions in prestigious museums including Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Musée d'art Moderne et Contemporain (Saint Etienne), Métropole, MoMA and PS1 (New York), Shanghai Duolun MoMA (Shanghai), Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea (Santiago de Compostela), Heidelberger Kunstverein, Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci (Prato), and Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation (Milan). Loris Cecchini has participated in numerous international exhibitions such as the 56th, 51st and 49th editions of the Venice Biennale, the 6th and 9th editions of Shanghai Biennale, the 15th and 13th editions of the Rome Quadriennale, the 1st Taiwan Biennial (Taipei), the 1st Valencia Biennale (Spain) and 12th Carrara International Sculpture Biennale (Italy).

Artists projects

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Michelangelo Consani (Livorno,1971)

Michelangelo Consani has exhibited in numerous private and public institutions in Italy and abroad from 1999 to-date. Some of these are: ArtKliazma (Moscow); MACRO (Rome); MAC VAL (Paris); Schunck (Heerlen); Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella); Kunstraum München (Munich), Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain (Luxembourg); Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art (Prato); Darb 1718 Contemporary Art & Culture (Cairo); Frigoriferi Milanesi (Milan); Fondation Donwahi (Ivory Coast); Kunstenfestival Watou (Watou); PAV (Turin); Italian Cultural Institute (Tokyo); Kyoto Imperial Palace (Kyoto). Consani also participated in the 11th Architecture Biennale (Venice); the 1st Aichi Triennial (Nagoya); the 15th Dakar Biennial (Dakar); the 2nd Valencia Biennale (Spain); the16th Rome Quadriennale (Italy)

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Next Prpject
opening 3/5/2025

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Mohsen Baghernejad Moghanjooghi (Tehran, 1988)

lives and works in Turin; here he attends the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduates in 2020. Having arrived in Italy for fashion, he works as a textile designer for a studio in Como, continuing the collaboration until 2019. The transfer takes place in 2011 after having worked for five years as an assistant in an architectural studio. This experience, together with the work as a building restorer carried out at the Rava studio, brings him closer to the use of building materials such as cement mortars, bricks and stone, and to the study of their use in past civilizations, such as lime-based mortars. In 2017, together with 9 other artists, he founded the independent collective Bastione: a place of exchange and research that promotes emerging contemporary artistic realities. Since 2025, he has transformed the D’io Bio project, born during the residency of a Boccata d’Arte in Calabria, into a farm, aimed at researching and cultivating mushrooms. His most recent activities include: Respira e muta, solo exhibition, Bari (BA) Project; D’io Bio, Santa Severina (KR) ; Summer love Welcome home, group exhibition, ME Vannucci art gallery (PT, 2023); PerPIRUZ, solo exhibition, Associazione Bastione (TO, 2022).

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