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others through relationships with place and with nature, and where together the participants and the audience constitute a “community of gesture”, thus reinventing public space as a gymnasium of convenience, humanity and poetry. In July 2017 “Tracing” also opened, a personal exhibition of the artist Renée Green, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, at the Anto- nio Ratti Cultural Space in the former church of San Francesco in Como.
The exhibition showed the unreleased work Spacing Poem #6 (Tracing) created specifically for Como and made using fabrics produced by Ratti. Visiting Professor of the XXII edition of CSAV, Renée Green is an artist, writer and film-maker noted for her complex and layered multimedia installations. These examine ideas, perceptions and experiences from multiple perspectives to investigate systems of relation and exchange over time, and changes in pub- lic and private memory.
Silk, always synonymous with elegance and naturalness, was the star of Silk Now, an exhi- bition held at the German Textile Museum of Krefeld from 17 July to 11 September 2017 in partnership with the Fashion and Design Academy of Düsseldorf.
The exhibition was an expansion of the previous exhibition “Silk, 2000 years of splendour”, which traced the origins of this noble fibre up to its most current vision. Thanks to sophisti- cated technological know-how, many European companies are continuing to innovate in the manufacturing of silk to transmit, still today, its antique image of refined luxury. Ratti stands out among these companies, since it has contributed to the exhibition by providing, from its archive, some fabrics characterised by modern printing and innovative manufacturing.
RATTI GROUP | SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2017
Renée Green
Renée Green
is an artist, writer
and film-maker noted for her complex and layered multimedia installations.
These examine ideas, perceptions and experiences from multiple perspectives to investigate systems of relation and exchange over time, and changes in public and private memory.
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