Mimesis
Immagine Forma
Milano Design Week 2024
Mimesis: paraphrasing Plato's Republic, it could be argued that any object designed, imagined, or created, however reproduced in an image with different potential uses, presupposes three different degrees of approximation: a point of relation, a point of transformation, and a point of representation. An ideal form, completely independent of its functions, constitutes a first point of Mimesis. Mimesis therefore indicates a process of identification, a symbiotic action between two forms-images of different natures.
For example, Mimesis can be generated in the space-time relationship of an object, rather than in the relationship between light and movement or, finally, in the relationship that is created between the object-image and its ideal staging, through different forms of theatricality. The staging of the object, the idea of theater produced through an active imagination, transcending its practical function, is transformed into a work of art, a work conceived as the theatricalization of an idea, a process of synthesis that we could define as form/image.
The exhibition therefore offers a comparison of these themes between the artists and architects invited to exhibit. Maurizio Barberis addresses the theme through the theatricalization of an image reduced to an everyday object; Alfonso Femia's work, on the other hand, is a synthesis, a point of connection between the image of the Temple and the figure of Vitruvian theater; Armando Bruno works in the revival-mimesis of Francis Bacon's conceptual cage; Elena Salmistraro works in the mirror reduction of two symmetrically opposed figures. Furthermore, Federico Spagnulo stages a work that synthesizes the relationship between light and time; finally, Carmelo Zappulla designs a work that takes into account the variations of light in the contemporary city.
Finally, the New York Institute of Technology presents seven projects created by a group of graduating students from the Fabrication and Robotics course, under the supervision of Fadhil Fadhil and Alessandro Melis.
MIMESIS will have another important exhibition opportunity, thanks to its partnership with the Paolo Grassi Foundation, at the Palazzo Ducale in Martina Franca from June 21 to August 20, 2024, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Valle d'Itria Opera Festival.
The artists featured in the exhibition are: Maurizio Barberis, Armando Bruno, Dorian X, Fadhil Fadhil with the New York Institute of Technology, Alfonso Femia, Duccio Grassi, Federica Marangoni, Alessandro Melis, Daniele Menichini and Nicolas Turchi, Steve Piccolo, Odilia Prisco, Elena Salmistraro, Federico Spagnulo, Alberto Vannetti, and Carmelo Zappulla.
Mimesis collaborates with:
Cromonichel, De Castelli, iGuzzini, Gonzato, Julia Marmi, Marmi Faedo, Óxido Studio, Panzeri, Sprech, Zeus, companies that represent excellence in lighting technology, in the processing and finishing of materials such as metal, stone, and marble, and that operate with a sustainable approach to enhancing the environment in which they operate.
