Luca Cipelletti plasters Milan gallery with manure for Shit Show
Milan 2015: the walls of a Milanese gallery are lined with excrement to highlight one of the material's potential uses in this installation by architect Luca Cipelletti (+ slideshow).
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In collaboration with the new Museo della Merda – Museum of Shit – in the Italian province of Piacenza, Cipelletti used bovine manure to cover the surfaces inside Milan's POMO Galerie.
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The Shit Show was curated by POMO and design magazine Pin-UP. It opened to coincide with last month's Milan design week, when excrement was also the theme of Design Academy Eindhoven's presentation.
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For Cipelletti's installation, the material was dried and demethanised before it was spread across the walls and ceiling of the small room.
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Bricks formed from the same material are stacked in a doorway at the back of the space, and placed on a podium visible through the street-facing window.
"It is a project which undermines cultural norms and preconceptions, and is dedicated to the transformation of a natural substance usually considered objectionable waste into something new, and to encourage dialogue on sustainability and the restoration of a healthy relationship between man and nature," said a statement from the gallery.
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The Museo della Merda opens to the public this month in Castelbosco, home to milk-production farm owned by Gianantonio Locatelli, which has enough cows to produce thousands of tons of fertiliser every day.
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The museum aims to show how new processes are being used to "turn shit into a useful, vital material" like the one used to plaster POMO's gallery space.
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"The POMO show anticipates the themes that the Museum will promote: shit which becomes something else in a virtuous circle involving nature, humanity, technology, architecture and art," the gallery said.
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The exhibition is open until 8 May at Via Giuseppe Sirtori 6, and each visitor will receive a brick as a souvenir.