Ex-scenic laboratories of La Scala. Two interiors.

Some doors are open, protected only by a grating, to prevent anybody to go in. By the time the place is inhabitated, there must be open doors on the back. It’s of my interest to discover the state of the place, to ensure it can be visited and find out if inside there are any objects that recall what the place was. This place gives positive answers to all my requests. It’s possible to go in, you can peek in with no problems, and specially it’s full of stuff. The first thing i do is to look inside one of the openings protected by grating. It wouldn’t be anything special, cause it’s only a boiler room, but it’s in such perfect conditions that for a moment i feel moved. Until now i never had the chance to see an abandoned place with machineries inside still in good conditions. The room is dark, the walls are encrusted, but everything seem to resist, probably waiting for Ronconi to come back every year. The other room i manage to see is a deposit. It has many objects inside, as wooden boards, boxes, furniture and forgotten trash, like beer bottles and cans, trying to hide themselves in the corners. Thousands of images and thoughts pass through me, trying to wonder for which shows they were good before they were thrown there like junk. Maybe that’s what it is, only junk: they might not have been part of any show, but only leftovers of that nothing that’s there today. The wall in front of me seem to have accomodate many pictures of the strangest shapes, or it looks like a very old wall done with giant stones. They migh be only humidity stains left by objects that were there before. It was a magic world, magic that tries to tell us something today.