events Design Week 2018 territory

17.04.2018 - 22.04.2018

LA GRAMMATICA DELLA LINEA. MARIO GOTTARDI ARCHITETTO E DESIGNER

Art+Design

5vie event

physical event

The exhibition “The grammar of the line. Mario Gottardi, architect and designer”, is a tribute to the work and history of Mario Gottardi, wanted by his son Giorgio and curated by Caterina Corni, with the art direction of the architect Paola Maria Gianotti.

Together with photos, sketches and period testimonials of the vast production of Gottardi, the exhibition will also be an opportunity to re-actualize his work, presenting three furnishing accessories that bear his signature, interpreted in a contemporary key.

Mario Gottardi was an exceptional designer, who made the measure his stylistic figure: a balance that does not mean repetitiveness, but which applies the domain of the line to a varied range of architectural and interior solutions and that, starting from the rationalist styles is clearly influenced, reinterpreted and re-updated by following on one side the cultural trends that are contemporary to him and on the other hand the practical needs in the use of spaces and especially of objects and furnishing accessories, in which he expresses his creativity.

On show the past, but also the present and the future of the work of Mario Gottardi, because will be on display three prototypes of three objects designed by Gottardi - an armchair, a chair and a table - which will then be marketed in 2019.

The three objects from the design point of view have remained intact in the perfect symbiosis between form and function and maintain the purity of the design and the sobriety of the line, on which the contemporary pop culture is grafted into the coverings, producing an innovative and original short circuit, an oxymoron between the rationalism of the plant and the chromatic impact of the coatings.