After years of exploration and immersion in the realms of art, Alberto Fiorenzi's Tapestry Collection will be presented at Design Week 2018, engaging in a dialogue with a distinctive and cohesive venue - the captivating post-industrial space of the historic Cova confectionery in the emerging and trendy NoLO area north of Milan.
It tells the infinite tale of thread transformed into texture, a new material, technological fabric for facades, covers, accessories, screens, and gadgets. Fluid, flexible, iconic, an art object and a project, blending architecture and design. Alberto Fiorenzi’s insight tells the story of a material borrowed from the performance world, reimagined, rendered pure, absolute, stripped bare against form and creation, reconnecting the threads of semantic future with the history and experience of Superstudio and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia.
“Cristiano inferred and recognized the objective alongside the current project, the very one he theorized back at Superstudio when he envisioned infinite surfaces placed evenly on the ground and in the sky,” explains Alberto Fiorenzi. Visual and conceptual affinity, like i-Mesh uniting people and cultures akin to neural networks linking the Earth and communicating across the planet. Thus, the Superstudio Histogram has evolved into the realm of i-Mesh, at times decorative and always technological, bearing witness to the cultural heritage of peoples and the enduring traditions renewed over millennia.
After years of experiences and excursions in the arts, the Tapestry Collection by Alberto Fiorenzi will be unveiled at Design Week 2018, engaging in dialogue with a unique and cohesive location—the captivating post-industrial space of the historic Cova confectionery in the NoLO area of north Milan, emerging and trendy. It also shares a conceptual affinity with the Alcova experience—art direction by Joseph Grima, curated by Space Caviar and Studio Vedèt: a sophisticated, workshop-like international Fuori Salone. A transitional area, as transient as i-Mesh in its numerous and ever-questioning metamorphoses, with tapestries displayed in vast spaces invaded by chaotic and inquisitive vegetation—a weave in its own right—in an indecipherable open/closed context between experimental design projects, galleries, institutions, and avant-garde companies, all engaged in the pursuit of meaning and function in relation to contemporary living and home themes.
