Via della dimenticanza, 2026
Lorenzo Montinaro
Via della Dimenticanza, 2026
White Carrara marble, site-specific dimensions
The work introduces a disturbance into the city’s system of coordinates. In an area between Ripamonti and Corvetto, crossed every day by fixed routes and precise destinations, Montinaro proposes a suspension of meaning. Marble, a material devoted to permanence and memory, is used here to give stability to the act of forgetting: not as loss, but as a possibility of interruption.
Via della Dimenticanza does not point to a place to be reached. Instead, it marks a point of passage where the city allows one to get lost, even if only for the length of a glance.
The work now remains on the façade, exposed to the passing of time and to the life of the neighbourhood. It may be sought out, come across, observed or ignored: it enters the everyday landscape as a silent fracture in the order of things.
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Via della Dimenticanza is a new permanent work by Lorenzo Montinaro, conceived specifically for Viafarini.work in Milan.
Developed in direct relation to the site and its surrounding urban context, the work becomes a permanent presence within an area of passage between Ripamonti and Corvetto, entering the everyday experience of those who live in or move through this part of the city.
The project continues Montinaro’s research into memory as a living and unstable material, exploring the tension between remembrance and forgetting, permanence and disappearance, and the ways in which individual and collective memory become embedded in places.
Conceived to remain permanently in dialogue with its surroundings, Via della Dimenticanza extends beyond the moment of its presentation, becoming part of the building, the street and the changing life of the city around it.