Toyo Ito on Andrea Branzi: 8 Picks at Triennale
Toyo Ito picked eight Andrea Branzi works for Continuous Present at Triennale Milano (19 March – 4 October 2026), and the earliest is a 1968 photograph of Branzi himself — not a chair, not a building. The eight picks are the curatorial spine of a show co-produced with Fondation Cartier that holds more than 400 works across eleven thematic sections in Giovanni Muzio’s Palazzo dell’Arte. Ito, working with Triennale’s Michela Alessandrini and Nina Bassoli, did not assemble a greatest-hits list. He assembled a thesis. The companion Continuous Present overview maps the architecture of the exhibition; this article maps the eight objects Ito singled out as the load-bearing argument and reads them as a sequence — Autoritratto (1968) through Voliera (2016), a forty-eight-year arc that the title of the show insists is one continuous moment. ...