Set in the historic workshop of the framer Guarnieri, in via Conte Rosso in Lambrate, the exhibition “Around the frame” (curated by Marco Romanelli) gathers a group of designers, coming from all over the world and from different generations, who are asked to reflect on the concept of frame. Framing a painting, a photograph, a sacred image, a mirror, is always a complicated and highly symbolic proc
ess. Over the centuries, frames have evolved from primitive ones, made of leaves and flowers, to sophisticated, carved embellished and golden ones, to minimalist metal ones. How can the conceptual and methodological limitation of the lath, which needs to be cut and assembled, be overcome?
“Around the frame” engages the matter in a personal but also methodical way, it compares the work of fifteen designers on the same theme and in this way shows how it can extend fruitfully to entirely different field, stepping away from the usual illimitable amount of chairs, sofas and tables which invades Milan every year at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile. Game rules: each participant designed a frame (to hang to a wall, to place on a table or free standing). Any material could be used. The frame had to be either for a mirror or for a photograph (Andrea Basile, “Caterina, 2013”), which could have been enlarged or made smaller, cropped or multiplied. Milan Design Week - Ventura Lambrate 2014
From 8 - 13 APRIL 2014
Designers:
Lorenzo Damiani
Laudani&Romanelli
Donata Paruccini
Marco Zito
Angeletti&Ruzza
Samer Al Ameen (Libano)
Giorgio Bonaguro
Juan Soriano Blanco (Spagna)
Eddie Figueroa (Portorico)
Filippo Francescangeli
Marco Guazzini
Niko Koronis (Grecia)
Paolo Imperatori
Leonardo Talarico
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