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Fast Milano and Milano MuseoCity

“Showcase” Project with the works of the artist Giacomo Benevelli

From 2nd to 8th March 2025, Milano MuseoCity returns with its ninth edition, an event that celebrates the city's artistic and cultural heritage.

MuseoCity, an ETS Association active since 2016, enhances the museum heritage in Milan and nationally, by creating a network among different cultural institutions, including art, history, design, and science museums, house museums, artists' archives, foundations, and business museums. Its network is active all year round, with a highlight event in March, Milano MuseoCity, held in collaboration with the City of Milan. From 2017, the event involves more than 100 institutions and welcomes more than 80,000 visitors.

Starting this year, the project is enriched with the participation of Fashion and Design companies, which will present art works and archive materials, along with art galleries, which will exhibit museum pieces. This creates a dialogue between Enterprise and Culture, which opens up to the city.

Fast participates in the ‘Showcase’ project with an exhibition of Giacomo Benevelli's works in Fast Milano, the flagship store in the heart of the Durini District in partnership with Bredaquaranta, from 2nd to 8th March during the event week and in the following weeks until 26th March.

Art and design intertwine between matter and form: the artist Benevelli shapes matter to create works that evoke emotion and reflection, exploring the fluidity of forms and the purity of materials. Similarly, Fast, transforms aluminium into designer furniture, creating pieces that not only combine aesthetics and functionality, but also seamlessly blend with their surroundings. Each Fast creation is the result of an ongoing dialogue among technological innovation, sustainability and a deep respect for the material, just like the Benevelli art works that tell stories through their forms.

At Fast Milano, located in Via Cesare Battisti 1, art and design meet.

Opening hours:
From 2nd to 8th March:
10:00 - 14:00 / 15:00 - 19:00

From 8th to 26th March:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10:00 - 14:00 / 15:00 - 19:00
Wednesday: 10:00 - 14:00 / 15:00 - 19:00
Thursday: 10:00 - 14:00 / 15:00 - 19:00
Friday: 10:00 - 14:00 / 15:00 - 19:00
Saturday: 10:00 - 14:00 / 15:00 - 19:00
Sunday: Closed

The Timeless Art of Giacomo Benevelli: A journey through sculpture and design.

A sculptor exponent of the Milanese school of abstractionism, Giacomo Benevelli had the opportunity to get to know great masters of Italian and international art such as Moore, Huelsenbeck, Kokoschka, and Arp, and thus he developed his own formal language, recognized by leading scholars of contemporary art, which allowed him to establish himself as a primary figure on the Italian and international art scene since the late 1950s.In 1963, the prestigious Felix Landau Gallery in Los Angeles dedicated to him its first solo exhibition in the United States: it was a huge success, so much so that Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton acquired numerous works by the artist and reserved a central place for one of them, Organic Matrix, in the set design of the film ‘Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf’, in which they starred.In 1964 he participated at the XLII Venice Art Biennial and, in the same years, he began his collaboration with design companies, designing, among others, lamps-sculptur e, which have become true icons, such as ROTO and ARABESQUE.During his career he exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions including: the Gunther Franke Gallery in Munich in 1961; the VII Sculpture Biennial at the Pare du Middelheim in Antwerp in 1965; the IX Quadriennale in Rome in 1971; the Stendhal Gallery in Milan in 1981; the Casa del Mantegna in Mantova in 2000; Poetiche del 900 at Castel Ivano, Trento, 2004; Sculture en plein air, Palazzo Stupinigi, Turin, 2006; Sculture alle porte d'Oriente at the Brindisi Archaeological Museum, 2006; ltalian Prints - 1875- 1975 The British Museum, London, 2007; Monument for the Ippolito Nievo Literary Park, Gazoldo degli lppoliti, Mantua , 2008.Public and private collections that hold works by Giacomo Benevelli include, the British Museum in London, the Royal Museum of Art in Antwerp, and the National Gallery of Art in Johannesburg.