Cloak of rags (Tale of a dismembered bank, rendered in blue)

Cloak of rags (Tale of a dismembered bank, rendered in blue), is an exhibition whose genesis began in another place, in another building, the bank in the title. Before being fully renovated, the headquarters of UBS - a nine-storey building situated in Monaco - became in fact an artwork by Mike Nelson, an exhibition commissioned by the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco that opened in July 2016. Every surface inside the building - from the architectural parts to the objects and furniture left there - was spray painted blue and the whole interior became an environment entitled Cloak. In Torino a new series of sculptural works is the aftermath of the exhibition in Monaco, where some architectural artefacts have been ripped out right before the full renovation of the interior of the building and the disposal of its materials.