GroupAO
AreaOdeon was born in 2005 around the original project of Lissone, during which, shared interests toward the city, the art and the society came together. Interests that have gathered, in the association, figures different for origins, training and experiences, making this multidisciplinarity the strength of the group and the developed work.
Since then till today many professionals have brought their experience and their enthusiasm in the association collaborating in different moments to specific projects with the group AO formed today by:
Marcello Arosio - Artist and architect, with decennial experience in foreign countries, has taken part to interesting inter-cultural and innovative artistic projects and to the planning of many architectural complexes in Italy, Spain, United States and Mexico. From the 2000 partner of a study of artistic-architectural planning in New York (Studio X-it) and in 2005, following the artistic project Area Odeon, founds the homonym (AreaOdeon) cultural association.
Carlotta Fumagalli - born within the fashion field, develops her competence in artistic field collaborating for years with an art gallery in Milan and Frankfurt. Back from a formative experience in New York she widens her knowledge in managerial, productive and entrepreneurial circle, working for a productive reality in Monza. Always interested in different artistic expressions, she explores, dancing, her own artistic language. She has been collaborating with the association AreaOdeon since 2008.
Simone Martini Gentile - After a long experience to commercial level, he arrives in AO in 2007 when he decides to invest his resources and to put his technical knowledges and computer science into practice. Since then he has been taking care of the technological infrastructure of the association, the logistics of the events, the communication and the relationship with the public.
Tommaso Arosio - Graduated at the DAMS in Bologna, works within the videoart developing artistic projects related to interactivity and experimentation of new languages in search of an overcoming of the conceptual and technical limits. Founder of the association HBlumaverde, collaborates with the theatrical world realizing video-scenographies and video-installations. Co-founder of AreaOdeon.
Amoung AO collaborators we remember particularly:
Veronica Belletti Luciana Bordin, Laura Bottin, Carlotta Carzaniga, Mattia Centemero, Mattia Colombo, Eleonora Crippa, Corrado Dell’Orto, Michele Folla, Greta Gandini, Stefano Gentile, Maria Rosaria Marra, Valeria Mosca, Massimo Nava, Margherita Paleari, Veronica Pirola, Raffaella Regina, Riccardo Riccardi, Laura Santamaria, Egle Varisco...