Colosseo. Altavilla Vicentina, Vicenza

photography | archival print/Hahnemuhle Paper Photo Rag Matt | 2014/2016
variable sizes / ed. 5 + 2 a.p.

The Colosseo was born in 1989 under the name Metropolis. The name changed the following year with the start of electronic techno music in Area Sound. After two years the building was transformed and called Expo.
The Expo disco remained for ten years a meeting point for very many people from Vicenza, selling out every Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoon, with 5,000 people a night. At the start of the 2000s, with the onset of the economic crisis, the Expo began its decline. It changed its name to Colosseo but proved a flop within a very short time. The last change came with the name Balkanic, run for a clientele from the eastern countries.