WERNER AISSLINGER / LOVE’S GAZEBO
içsel yolculuk metaforu temsil edilerek çerçevesi
büyük ölçüde bu içsel yüzleşme ve deneyselliğe
odaklandı.
Tasarım dünyasının kalbinin altı gün boyunca
Milano’da attığı Tasarım Haftası’nda etkinlikler
şehir merkezindeki Zona Tortona’nın sokaklarında
gerçekleştirildi. Thus Spoke the Marble Sergisi’nin
mekânı ise Zona Tortona’nın tapınağı haline gelen
Superstudio Più Binası oldu. Sergi, Superstudio Più
Binası’nın Sanat Bahçesi’nde, 900 metrekarelik açık
alandaki dokuz platform üzerinde yapılandırılmış
büyüleyici bir alanda ziyaretçileri karşıladı.
MERMER VE HAYAT: HER ADIMDA IKISI DE
YENIDEN ŞEKILLENIYOR
Sergi kapsamında, her tasarımcı hayat yolculuğumuz
boyunca bizi şekillendiren duyguları, 12 metrekarelik
platformlar üzerine işledi. Tasarımcılar, Anadolu
RICHARD HUTTEN / EXCITEMENT
an installation that would communicate them. Its symbolic title: ‘Thus Spoke
the Marble: The Journey Alters You’ thus invites visitors on a journey of rediscovery, revealing the narrative qualities of the material. As well as being
a perfect location for rest and relaxation, it also intends to be a place of
insight, discussion, and meditation.
The exhibition also hooks onto a tradition of over four thousand years, in
which Turkish marble from across Anatolia has been the basic material for
great works of art and architecture, from classical antiquity to Byzantine,
Ottoman and modern times. It will also illustrate the creative revival that has
characterized the country in recent years, and its design and architectural
scene in particular.
Thus Spoke the Marble: The Journey Alters You was built across nine
platforms, each carrying an installation, and linked by wooden and iron
pathways, representing the metaphor of the inner journey. The projects
exhibited include a ‘Marble Rosarium’ by Berlin-based architect and
designer Werner Aisslinger, a stunning arrangement of marble slabs crafted
into the shape of flowers and combined into a playful secret garden
space, whereas the leading Dutch designer Richard Hutten invited visitors
on a somewhat uncomfortable walk inside a crate entirely covered with
polychromic marble that reproduces worlds and symbols from the realm of
imagination. The Anglo-Spanish duo El Ultimo Grito (Rosario Hurtado and
Roberto Feo) has created an installation where visitors could sit or lie down
on a gently sloping piece of marble, while James Irvine challenged gravity by
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