30 May 2014
Design Destinations is an exhibition on a generation of Italian designers who were trained at the Design Academy Eindhoven, in the Netherlands, and who carry their roots around with them, reshaping them to suit ever changing environments. The curator Domitilla Dardi has asked seven of these cultural migrants (Formafantasma, Salvatore Franzese, Gionata Gatto, Giovanni Innella & Tal Drori, Francesca Lanzavecchia, Maurizio Montalti and Eugenia Morpurgo) what the word baggage means to them. Out of this have come woolen blankets of an antique flavor, lamps wrapped in a piece of wire as long as the distance between Rome and Eindhoven, mirrors on which two different perspectives are reflected, shoes that leave back-to-front footprints, clothes with large pockets to hold everything we don’t want to abandon, a glass walking stick filled with materials and ideas. Rather than performing a practical function, the objects on display present themselves as fantastic containers of stories: light and poetic reflections on the horizons, destinations and destiny of design.
Eugenia Morpurgo, Re-Tools.
Eugenia Morpurgo, Re-Tools.
Gionata Gatto, Perspectives.
Gionata Gatto, Perspectives.
Gionata Gatto, Perspectives.
Giovanni Innella / Tal Drori, Il cambiavalute.
Giovanni Innella / Tal Drori, Il cambiavalute.
Giovanni Innella / Tal Drori, Il cambiavalute.
Salvatore Franzese, Twin Lamp.
Salvatore Franzese, Twin Lamp.
Studio Formafantasma, Asmara.
Studio Formafantasma, Asmara.
Maurizio Montalti, NASCO/STO.
Maurizio Montalti, NASCO/STO.
Francesca Lanzavecchia, Lungo come il viaggio.
Francesca Lanzavecchia, Lungo come il viaggio.