The art gallery of just 7 meters in the nameless alley. The route existed before five days
The smallest exhibition space in the world. A ancient transit right between the courtyards of the buildings
Perhaps, Since it is not an alley and it is not a calle, nor a road, nor a carruggio, it could metaphorically catalog it like this: an urban whimor the alienating outcome of who knows what administrative quibble, thanks to which anyone can turn in the gate that In all respects it seems the entrance of a building, in via Fontanaa few steps from the Court, Erjet, after crossing the internal courtyard of some buildings, on the pavement of Corso di Porta Vittoriaclose to number 46, right in front of the Chamber of Labor. To seek the origin of this « public passage » (two marble plates indicate it, one for each entrance, both with a thin arrow, « at the Via Fontana » and « at the Corso di Porta Vittoria ») you can consult the ancient maps of Milan, the previous ones or just after five days. On a legal level, it can be assumed that the community has a general interest in the passageor, or transit, iure servitutis publicae. However, from the maps, a first certainty is obtained: at least since the beginning of the nineteenth century, In that place an alley already existed. With a mysterious peculiarity: he never had a name.
The historical maps that can be found on Giorgio Stagni’s website reveal that, in 1814, at the center of what today is the course of Porta Vittoria (and which at the time was a road on the coast) a channel flowed; The houses were littleand, a small agglomeration between the gardens, known as Borgo di Porta Tosa (the door at the height of the walls, a little further on, today five days): that handful of buildings on the extreme periphery of nineteenth -century Milan was already cut by the close pass that exists stilleven if none of the buildings dating back to that time. The urban scenario was this, when 1848 came: « The Tosa Porta, like the farthest from the castle, and close to the two powder kegs of the city, came from the citizens considered as the main point of socket. The Austrians, who walked on the mind of ours, fortified there, explaining a lot of artillery. The people, however, did not be dismayed; Indeed, gradually that he heard the enemy in that door, he increased the number of his fighters. « Who has weapons, go to Porta Tosa! » He wrote himself with the coal on the walls; At that anonymous command, perhaps from a traced teenager, citizens of all ages and condition there were brightly brought, and placed themselves on the offenses « (Felice Venosta, » The five days of Milan « , 1864). The Via Fontana, on the other hand, was called this because among the meadows, near the bastion, there was a small oratory dedicated to the Santa Maria, from which a source gushed.
The twentieth -century Milan has rebuilt all the buildings by keeping the « public passage » intact: that that It hosts places of even more singular and wonderful nature. One, in particular, is the most narrow commercial premises in Milan (but perhaps in Italy, or who knows, of Europe)certainly in the running among the smallest art galleries in the world: just seven square meters. At one time it was a newsstand: entering the Corso di Porta Vittoria, on the left, the place consists of an elongated room in the shape of a trapeze, with entrance and showcase, plus another showcase on the same wall. Since 2023 it has been the seat of exhibitions, created by Michele Foti, photographer and videomaker. Artribune wrote: « The extremely reduced spaces force unpublished exhibition solutions: focus of space is the idea of bringing visitors to the world of contemporary photography as much as possible and what is around you, offering the public a refined selection of books, prints and design objects ». Reconstand jewel (these days, however, unused), a symbol of the post-modern Milan Milan: dropped to the point of total urban saturation, the life of the city is unbalanced in places like this, a cut of space, in an unnamed alley. The name of the gallery is Small Small Space.
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