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ARTS & CRAF & DESIGN. IIL TEMPO SECONDO ALESSANDRO
MENDINI E I SUOI ARTIGIANI
ARTS & CRAFTS & DESIGN
Time according to Alessandro Mendini and his artisans
Geneva, Salon International
de la Haute Horlogerie,
January 21-
THE EXHIBITION
The exhibition entitled “Arts & Crafts & Design: Time according to Alessandro Mendini and his artisans ” will be presented by the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie during the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie. It is the result of a project undertaken by the Fondazione des Mestieri d’Arte in Milan in collaboration with the Cartier Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris, and is made possible thanks to the support of the Swiss Fine Watchmaking company Vacheron Constantin, which has always worked to ensure the continued survival of the artistic crafts.
This exclusive event, open by invitation only, is intended for collectors of fine watches, enthusiasts, customers, and the VIP press from all over the world.
It is the first exhibition to open a dialogue between Fine Watchmaking and design, the arts and the crafts used in other equally noble manual disciplines. Its theme is “TIME.”
CREATIONS AND MATERIALS
The creations designed by Alessandro Mendini were made by renowned Italian artisans out of thirteen different materials. The dialogue between the artist, the designer, and the master artisan, between the person who conceives the idea and the one who interprets it, conveys the vitality of an economic, productive, and cultural system of which the legacy still remains clearly in evidence today.
The exhibition’s cultural ambition is thus to highlight the fundamental role played by the artistic crafts within our society, by including them in an ongoing, progressive dialogue with modern creative expression. Each piece is signed by both Alessandro Mendini and the artisan who made it. Mendini’s wish is that the objects on display be designed to showcase the values of excellence of the main métiers d’art and materials, using techniques that are partly traditional and partly evolutionary or even experimental. Those selected to do the work are among the most talented masters of their crafts.
Each of the objects has its own aesthetic identity, its own visual language coinciding with the characteristics of the materials it “wears.” While each piece is unique and can be viewed as a “character” in its own right, the objects were also designed to be part of a consistent series in which the common thread is either logical or dimensional.
Objects created by:
Zero. Bisazza, mosaic
One. Venini, blown glass
Two. Comitato per la Promozione del Merletto di Cantù, lace
Three. Superego Design, ceramic
Four. Slide, lacquered polyurethane
Five. Galleria Paolo Curti & Annamaria Gambuzzi, lacquered wood
Six. Giovanni Scacchi, methacrylate
Seven. Gori Lab, bronze
Eight. Fedeli Restauri , inlaid wood
Nine. Cleto Munari, gold-
Ten. Henry glass, sandblasted glass
Eleven. Carlo Poggio Design, resin and iron
Twelve. Riva 1920, natural woods
