Yukinori Yanagi

Icarus

Pirelli HangarBicocca

Photography, Documentation
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Photo: Agostino Osio
Photo Editing: Marco Dabbicco, Giulia Capra
Year: 2025

About the exhibition

The exhibition, curated by Vicente Todolí and Fiammetta Griccioli, brings together a series of site-specific, immersive works that chronicle the artist’s career in the Navate and Cubo spaces of Pirelli HangarBicocca. The title “ICARUS” evokes the Greek myth of Icarus and Daedalus which serves as a cautionary message as well as an invitation to reflect upon human arrogance born from overconfidence in technology. By getting too close to the sun (which the artist understands as a metaphor for nuclear energy), Icarus becomes responsible for his own downfall.