Description
The PAC, Pavilion of Contemporary Art, is the City of Milan's exhibition space for today's art, on Via Palestro, next to the Villa Reale and its park. It has no collection: it hosts temporary exhibitions of Italian and international artists, sometimes shown in Italy for the first time.
The building is worth the visit too, designed by Ignazio Gardella and opened in 1954 on the site of the Villa Reale's stables, destroyed by bombs. Its heart is a sequence of five hexagonal rooms about 6 meters high, lit from above; on the ground floor the sculpture gallery opens onto the park through a deliberately low glass wall.
In 1993 a Mafia car bomb exploded on Via Palestro, and the fire nearly destroyed the pavilion. It was rebuilt exactly as it was, by Gardella himself with his son Jacopo, and reopened in 1996.
The building is worth the visit too, designed by Ignazio Gardella and opened in 1954 on the site of the Villa Reale's stables, destroyed by bombs. Its heart is a sequence of five hexagonal rooms about 6 meters high, lit from above; on the ground floor the sculpture gallery opens onto the park through a deliberately low glass wall.
In 1993 a Mafia car bomb exploded on Via Palestro, and the fire nearly destroyed the pavilion. It was rebuilt exactly as it was, by Gardella himself with his son Jacopo, and reopened in 1996.