Until March 14, fifteen unpublished paintings by the iconic American designer and designer will be on display, the first to open a designer restaurant in Milan
If the Campbell Soup painted by Andy Warhol and the Coke Mario Schifano were the symbols of pop art, the Pizzas by Ken Scott could be considered the last element of the triad. It's about fifteen paintings by the iconic American stylist and designer "discovered" by Peggy Guggenheim (who in 1944 organized his first solo show in New York): original tempera paintings created by the master innovator for some decorative modules that no one has ever edited or published. Until March 14th these fifteen unpublished will be exhibited in space The circle of Bellano, in the province of Lecco, on the eastern shore of Lake Como.
The exhibition
"A real monument to the elegance of the palate, where even pizza becomes an unmistakable icon of consumption", explain the organizers of the exhibition Eats & Drinks & Pizza, curated by Velasco Vitali. «The exhibition invites the viewer to reread the path of a master to whom the birthright recognition has not yet been returned. The intuition was truly dazzling and shows, as Buzzati would have said, that Ken Scott in 1970 was able to Also "aristocratize" pizza.
The stylist
Ken Scott, born in 1919, was the inventor of the fashion shows with models who wore animalier clothes under a circus tent, or in the Palazzo dello sport in Rome or at the Piper, the coolest venue in the capital, in the 1960s. At the beginning of that decade. in fact, he began to sign clothes and accessories with his name, to soon become him stylist symbol of creativity, of color and modernity.
He was among the most original protagonists of Italian and international fashion of the sixties and seventies. And he was also an anticipator of trends: one of the most significant was the opening of the first restaurant in Milan designer. It was 1969, and the sign was Eats & Drinks: Ken Scott furnished it according to the dictates of his lively creative verve. And, often, he also started cooking.
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