この展覧会は、「家」という概念に焦点を当てた機微な考察を構築している。物理的な空間として、また個人的なアイデンティティや記憶の集合と結びつくテーマや複雑な人間関係として、「家」を探っている。モダニズムの規範を批判的に取り上げ、そのジェンダー的な性質と、保守的な男性性理解に根ざしていることを強調している。モダニズムは20世紀初頭、産業の革新と並行して、19世紀における折衷主義の「女々しさ」の特徴を非難するものとして発展した。アドルフ・ロース(Adolf Loos)やアンリ・ヴァン・デ・ヴェルデ(Henry van de Velde)といった建築家たちは、シンプルさ、真実性、誠実さを提唱し、こうした穏健で合理的な「男らしさ」と、それまでの様式に見られた感傷的で装飾的な特徴を対比させた。
On the occasion of the presentation of the exhibition “La casa dentro”, collection exclusively designed by Formafantasma for our gallery, a limited edition catalogue of 300 copies (200 pp.) was published, with a critical essay by Alberto Salvadori and Alessandro Rabottini.
The exhibition constructs a delicate reflection focused on the idea of the home, explored as a physical space and as a complex set of human relationships and themes linked to personal identity and collective memory.
The body of work specifically developed for this exhibition explore themes of personal identity and collective memory. The works critically addresses the canons of Modernism, highlighting its gendered nature and rootedness in a conservative understanding of masculinity. Modernism developed in the early 20th-century in parallel to the industrial innovations and as a condemnation of the ‘effeminate’ traits of nineteenth-century eclecticism. Architects such Adolf Loos and Henry van de Velde advocated for simplicity, authenticity, and integrity, contrasting these sober, rational and ‘virile’ qualities with the sentimentality and ornamentation associated with previous styles.
Formafantasma’s work departs from a staple of the Modernist furniture making, the bent tubular metal, to closely examine the tension between the lived experience of domesticity and the intellectual understanding of Modernist ideologies of architecture and design.
The exhibited objects juxtapose rational, almost surgical compositions of curved steel with wooden planks adorned with hand embroideries, painted floral patterns, and silk volants, referencing the designers’ childhood memories of home.
The body of work while being extremely personal, is an attempt to queer the codes of Modernist design and sees the process of being professionally educated as the inevitable imposition of a canon. La Casa Dentro is a meditation on memory, nostalgia for what is lost and the impossibility to fully un-learn.
Exhibition: Friday 04 October - Saturday 09 November, 2024
- Pages: 100 Size: 212 x 282 mm softcover color limited edition of 300 copies