Interview with Edoardo Tresoldi: in the pipeline with U‑Power!

You may remember a previous one of ours in which we talked about the opening of Edoardo Tresoldi 's new studio in Milan.

The studio, inaugurated on June 28, 2019, is a large building of about 700 square meters divided into office and workshop areas. This is the place where Edoardo Tresoldi transforms his visions and translates them into works.

Edoardo's works are often installations of monumental dimensions that, with great delicacy, settle into the landscape. Despite the purely industrial materials, the visual impact is always of an ethereal lightness, and the effect of transparency that allows the gaze to pass through the work, integrating it perfectly into the place where it seems to have always belonged, arouses astonishment.

Asurprising lightness, a threshold between the visible and the invisible in which to discover space as a place in which to lose oneself, a kind of blurred limbo that isolates the visitor from the outside world but, at the same time, integrates it without any space-time frontier anymore, poised between past, present and future.

1. INTERVIEW WITH EDOARDO TRESOLDI: DISCOVER THE BEHIND-THE-SCENES INTERVIEW

We met Edoardo Tresoldi in his Studio in Milan, a redeveloped industrial space that is converted in some of its areas into a real construction site, and this is where U-POWER comes in!

INTERVIEW WITH EDOARDO TRESOLDI: DISCOVER THE BEHIND-THE-SCENES INTERVIEW

A few months after the inauguration of his studio, we paid a visit to Edoardo to find out where and how he transforms his ideas into those creations so unique that they take Italian Contemporary Art to the highest levels in the world.

We, therefore, went to Milan, to Via Mecenate, where we were welcomed by Marta Veltri, head of the Press Office of Tresoldi Studio, who pleasantly guided us inside the area. Later we will meet Edoardo for an interview, for the moment we get acquainted with his spaces.

Before arriving in Edoardo's studio we pass through several areas where the dominant element is the wire mesh: we are literally surrounded by it!

Of course, to see it rolled up in coils - it is difficult to connect it to the lightness of the sculptures, but we only need to enter the office area and lift our gaze to meet it again and, this time, it has a completely different texture: it has become aerial.

"But how does this transformation take place?"-we ask ourselves.

We observe the team at work and, in the meantime, we are very happy to see that they are wearing U-POWER safety shoes!
For us, it is a bell to know that we can contribute - albeit very indirectly - to the realization of Edoardo Tresoldi's works.

We certainly contribute to his safety while working and to that of his team!

In the hands of the young people who make up his working group, the wire mesh is shaped and seems to lose its heaviness-the mesh is extremely strong and rigid-it becomes a plastic material that acquires new dimensions and structure.
Think that in order to achieve certain effects and results, it is sometimes necessary to invent new tools that are more congenial to fully meet the processing requirements.

Werealize that we are not simply in a workshop, in a "construction site," but in a real "Art Workshop," like Leonardo 's or Brunelleschi's, in which we literally do schooling, invent, and give free rein to the creativity that manifests itself in all its forms, including that of the creation of a new tool.

Not for nothing is the team made up entirely of young people from the world ofArt!

We climb a staircase that takes us to an elevated area and enter the room that Edoardo identifies as his studio.

The environment tells us about his history, his travels, his habits.

On the right, the old sign of Pasticceria Tresoldi, his family's business, and then, leaning against a wall a photo of it.
On the shelves, scattered objects of various kinds recounting moments of life.
On a table, numerous books stacked, talking about art, but not only. Among them I recognize two by Italo Calvino: of the first I can read the title "The Invisible Cities."
In front of a small window is a statuette of the Madonna and at her feet a reminder from Paul Gauguin: "Art is either plagiarism or it is revolution."
And then, a painting by Edward, a sculpture of a human figure, rolls of drawing paper grouped in a blue box.

That's where we decided to meet with Edoardo for his interview-we can't wait to meet him and hear how he found working with theU-POWER work shoes andworkwear we provided him.

We have many questions; there are so many things we would like to ask him....

But here he comes; we shake hands and his smile immediately puts us at ease.
We are almost ready to start our interview: the set has been set up, the lights have been placed, the microphone is on...

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