Luca Vitone Artist

Wide City is a solo exhibition dedicated to the work of artist Luca Vitone that was held at the Open Space in Milan in 1998. For this project Vitone mapped a series of foreign activities across the city, such as restaurants, associations, worship centres, and cultural spaces highlighting them on a specifically designed map. The project included a tour of these places organized by the artist and was complemented by a set of graphic additions: a map, an invitation, a poster, and a catalogue.

In 2006 on the occasion of Less: Alternative Living Strategies, an exhibition held at PAC – Milan, a new map called Wider City was redesigned and presented to express a new concept about the idea of being a foreigner in Milano: the concept that thanks to the internet the city has no more boundaries, as reflected in the new map highlighting only the internet and phone centres of Milan at that time.

Luca Vitone Artista

Wide City è il titolo della mostra personale dell’artista Luca Vitone presentata nello spazio Open Space di Milano nel 1998. Per questa mostra l’artista ha evidenziato su una mappa della città di Milano alcune attività straniere. La tradizionale mappa della città è stata graficamente modificata per far emergere queste realtà: ristoranti, associazioni, luoghi di culto, spazi culturali e commerciali. Il progetto includeva una serie di visite in alcuni di questi luoghi organizzati dall'artista. La comunicazione del progetto ha previsto diversi supporti: una mappa, un invito, un manifesto e catalogo.

Nel 2006 in occasione della mostra Less – Strategie alternative dell’abitare presentata al PAC è stata ridisegnata una nuova mappa — Wider City — che esprimeva un nuovo concetto dell'essere straniero a Milano, emerso grazie a Internet, ovvero la città non ha più confini nel web, così la nuova mappa evidenziava semplicemente gli internet & phone point presenti all’epoca nei vari quartieri.

Luca Vitone Artist

Wide City is a solo exhibition dedicated to the work of artist Luca Vitone that was held at the Open Space in Milan in 1998. For this project Vitone mapped a series of foreign activities across the city, such as restaurants, associations, worship centres, and cultural spaces highlighting them on a specifically designed map. The project included a tour of these places organized by the artist and was complemented by a set of graphic additions: a map, an invitation, a poster, and a catalogue.

In 2006 on the occasion of Less: Alternative Living Strategies, an exhibition held at PAC – Milan, a new map called Wider City was redesigned and presented to express a new concept about the idea of being a foreigner in Milano: the concept that thanks to the internet the city has no more boundaries, as reflected in the new map highlighting only the internet and phone centres of Milan at that time.