Trama e ordito. Tra Pistoletto, Buren e Boetti dalla Collezione Canclini

Preview: written before the show opened

Maria Lai summed up her art in three words, "Essere è tessere" (to be is to weave), and the curator hangs this show on that line. Her Formiche (2009) is here, lent by a family that knew her: the Canclinis, whose Como silk firm turns 100 with this exhibition.

The firm's collection of textile-based contemporary art moves into the house's neo-Renaissance rooms: Pistoletto, Buren, Boetti, Kounellis, Warhol, Kusama and Tracey Emin among others. You walk through rooms that still keep their 16th-century tapestries, with the new pieces set beside them. In the Quadrilatero della Moda, it's the one address where the fabric on show isn't for sale.

It runs from 27 November to 16 May 2027, Wednesday to Sunday 10:00 to 18:00, with tickets at €14 (reduced €10). Alongside it there are guided tours, music-and-aperitif evenings in the Salone d'Onore, and Ricamare le idee, a workshop where you embroider your own tote bag.