In Corso Sempione, a few metres from thePeace Archon the occasion of the Milan Design Week will be inaugurated memoREbilia a new multifunctional space in which design, art, photography, graphic design, presentations and cultural events.
The new location, created at the behest of Alessandro de Magistris with the valuable support of Tortona4Arte and Art Nomade Milan, opens its doors dedicating the month of September to Design with the exhibition Sostegni.
We need new "Supports', of new roots from which to start again after this hard period, of creating a foundation on which to build, and of 'sustainability', experienced as a profound evolution that starts from ecological aspects and reaches a broader economic/social meaning.
The choice of designers exhibiting followed criteria based on pillars such as sharing, fair forms of progress that do not leave certain communities on the margins, recovery and protection of the environment to arrive at new ways and spaces of living.
Architects and designers will exhibit in the space: Giorgio Caporaso, Angelo Tacchinardi, Stefano Epis and Nina Salsotto Cassina of Unurgent Argilla.
Giorgio Caporaso
An expression of lifestyle that also becomes a concern for our planet, Lessmore's Ecodesign Collection tells the story of the pursuit of style and functionality and lends particular appeal even to materials traditionally considered poor such as cardboard.
Not mere furniture, but the expression of a design approach attentive to the needs of an increasingly mobile and changing life. Flexibility, Reparability, Multi-functionality, Transformability, Durability, Separability, Disassemblability, Recyclability, are just some of the innovative qualities of this collection of chairs, tables and modular elements designed by award-winning architect and designer Giorgio Caporaso, who for many years has been studying and tackling the themes of project architecture and sustainable design with sensitivity to the environment, the presence of urban greenery and green/built integration.
Angelo Tacchinardi
His projects always aim at awakening, stimulation, sensory attraction, played out through the use of colour, light, bare, material, direct, natural materials. He always aims to breathe new life into discarded materials, old pieces of wood, sheet metal, pieces of lamps, paper, remnants or leftovers that have inspired him, almost called him. He thus transfers his love for nature and non-anthropised natural environments into his works, which often take the form of abstract landscapes. Particular attention is paid to light, to lamp designs that are often true light installations, environmental sculptures, shaped and coloured forms that create introspective, intimate and relaxing atmospheres. Objects for 'companionship', perhaps more to shed light on the personal 'interior' than to illuminate an already over-lit exterior.
Stefano Epis
An artist and graphic designer, he lives the contemporaneity of his art through the continuous search for new elements. By creating objects and manipulating themes and words, he transforms even everyday life stories into something unique and original. In his contemporary works, one perceives how thin the line is between reality and fantasy, creating unique, playful, sometimes irreverent images. His furnishing elements, unique objects such as vases, lamps and details for the table are all rigorously contaminated by his ironic graphic sign from which the positive art that makes people smile and conveys emotional strength shines through.
Nina Salsotto Cassina
He founded in 2019 in London Unurgent Argilla (currently based in Milan) a studio that focuses on material research of non-industrial materials excavated directly from the ground and their use in ceramics. Unurgent Argilla is a vocabulary of wild materials, repeated on spherical vases, which it uses as a canvas to convey a spatial narrative, to know through materiality. The last vases act as both signposts and autobiographical archive memories. Looking at what is beneath our feet and working with our hands with locally sourced, non-commercial materials is both ancient and contemporary.
