Italy’s far-right Lega party, which won almost 18% of the vote in the general election on 4 March and could form part of the next coalition government, wants to turn a former Fascist party headquarters in Como, in the Lombardy region, into northern Italy’s biggest museum of Modern art, architecture and design. — The Art Newspaper
As reported by The Art Newspaper, the leader of Italy's newly empowered far-right Lega party, Matteo Salvini, has called in his manifesto, besides the expected anti-immigration, anti-European Union views, to create a grand museum of architecture, design, and modern art in the northern Italian city of Como — inside the Mussolini-commissioned 1936 former Casa del Fascio.
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demo it, make both Eisenman and Fascists mad, win/win
I'm curious to hear the debate here and want to know how it turned out. Odd, in the US at least, that a far right group would promote modern art. It depends on what they mean by modern art, I suppose. But the Casa could be but to better use. I think it's still a tax office.
They might want to mention the name of the architect, Guiseppe Terragni. Good thing Michangelo did not lean to the right, I guess. There goes the Pieta and the Sistine Chapel.
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