Richie Hawtin has created a new body of work under his Plastikman alias for Pradasphere, a Prada exhibition at the newly opened Prada Galleria in Milan. Rather than a single soundtrack, Hawtin composed separate pieces for each room of the space, with the music designed to shift as visitors move through the building, according to the announcement.
The project extends Hawtin’s long-running collaboration with Prada, which began with him scoring five Prada runway shows starting in 2021 and includes Prada Extends, a music and culture series he co-conceived with the brand that has appeared at Tate Modern in London, Tokyo, Miami and Bangkok. The Milan commission builds on work first done for Pradasphere II in Shanghai in 2023, with material from that show reworked for the new Milan setting, the announcement says.
Prada Galleria, overseen by Miuccia Prada, occupies eight floors inside Milan’s Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, on the site where Fratelli Prada was founded in 1913, and combines retail, hospitality, art and history.
Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Neil Bainbridge | Neighbourhood, neighbourhoodpr.com.