Amare Gio Ponti
Directed by Francesca Molteni
2015 / 34 min / Italy / US Premiere
A picture of the man, the architect, aspiring
painter and Italian designer who, over 50 years, has tried it all with untiring
energy— from the design of a handle to the formulation of a town plan.
“Architecture is an interpretation of life”, he wrote. A popularizer of the
modern who ran the risk of indifference and being completely forgotten, this
film seeks the reasons for this diffidence, especially from the critics, apart
from stereotypes and the masses who “relegated him to a divine Olympus of
underestimated fathers,” as described by Fulvio Irace. It further seeks to
advance the reasons for the new good fortune which saw him, in recent years,
re-discovered and re-proposed as a model European and international architect.
Why, paraphrasing Ponti, who used to say “art has fallen in love with
industry”, has the industry of yesterday and today fallen in love with Gio
Ponti?
