garage BENTIVOGLIO

The new BENTIVOGLIO garage event presents an entire environment designed by Luisa Aiani and Ico Parisi: the Positano room, designed by the couple for the Roman company MIM - Mobili Italiani Moderni in 1958. MIM represents an exception in design, being one of the few non-Lombard brands to establish itself on the Italian scene, and therefore in a certain sense worldwide, of furniture production. \nThe room enters the collection after being purchased at the Piazza Grande Market, a Bolognese association that for thirty years, through the resale of used items, has been dealing with projects for marginalized or homeless people. \nThe acquisition represents an interest in a couple that has had a fluctuating historiographic success, but which has recently seen a growing interest in collecting through the world of auctions. The curatorial desire to attribute the authorship of the work also to Luisa Aiani, called by her last name and not with the one acquired, is part of the long critical journey that has seen over the years the recognition of female figures, of important life and professional associations, of the role not only of assistants, but of real companions. \nIn fact, it is impossible to draw the boundaries of merits and skills within a bond that lasts forty-five years: the real project of the La Ruota studio, which Luisa and Ico opened in 1948, is the dialogue that takes place between the two and whose ultimate effect is the incessant production of furniture and objects. \nDialogue is the foundation of our culture, whether it is the maieutic one of Socratic heritage, or the declarative and creative one of the Jewish god. Dialogue is also the place where the Palazzo Bentivoglio collection was born, in the confrontation between the two collectors; a dialogue whose extent we do not know, but whose boundaries we can glimpse through the obsessions, vanities, visions, and sacrifices that pervade the entire collection. Finally,\ngarage BENTIVOGLIO is the place where the collection enters into dialogue with the world, asks to be questioned to return to itself full of new meanings.