Floating Cube Exhibition: 10 Years, 10 Artists, 10 Works

The Quadreria Contemporanea (Contemporary Picture Gallery) of Molteni&C showcased with a new display concept by Ron Gilad and curated by Crist iana Colli. 

Inside M&C, the large-format multicultural, plural and bilingual periodical invented by Luca Meda for 10 years has been brooding, intimately and in secret, a photographic committee, Visual Art, which counterpoints every edition, every Furnishing and Design trade fair and show.

The project was inaugurated in 2006, conceived and curated by Cristiana Colli, a gift that is inserted in the centre of the magazine, a collection that is shared, accessible, diffuse.

So the Quadreria Contemporanea was a work in progress that has manifested the experience, the idea of the collection, the style of collecting, the network of collectors unpredictable, hybrid, mobile. 

Now, from the M&C mega-mag, the collection arrives in Giussano, presented in a site specifically designed for Glass Cube, called “Floating Cube”, with a display concept by Ron Gilad.

A design statement sustained with conviction by the company, committed to every era – as documented by its eight-year-long history - in supporting contemporary culture, architecture, and design. A gift that is inserted in the centre of the magazine: two-faced – side A and side B always, pulls out, an impossible object, a paradox to be displayed between two sheets of glass. A collection that is shared, accessible, diffuse. 

Travelling arm-in-arm around the world, in bookshops, in archives, in the air – suspended and held in place by fishing lines. A community of artists, glances, thoughts, intentions that make themselves available for contemplation. So the Quadreria Contemporanea – paradoxically in format yet coherent in its format – was a work in progress that has manifested the experience, the idea of the collection, the style of collecting, the network of collectors unpredictable, hybrid, mobile. To connect the Molteni community – people, projects, objects – with the spirit of the times, the good vibrations of the communities, of the dialogues, of the landscapes. 

Now, from the M&C mega-mag, the collection arrives in Giussano, inside the Compound that since 2015 has housed the Molteni Museum, presented in a site specifically designed for Glass Cube, called “Floating Cube”, with a display concept by Ron Gilad. 

"A white cube at the heart of a glass one, floating above running water. A room without entrance or exit, an unexpected space for hanging art” - Ron Gilad

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