THE ABSOLUTE SURFACE
HOPERAPERTA PRESENTS THE THEME OF THE ABSOLUTE SURFACE IN TWO VENUES THAT DIALOGUE WITH EACH OTHER: AT BANNER SPACE AND ARISTON HOTEL, RESPECTIVELY CURATED BY PATRIZIA CATALANO AND MAURIZIO BARBERIS (BANNER), MARTINA BARBERIS CASAGRANDE AND BENEDETTA SCARELLA (ARISTON)
For Milano Design Week 2022, Hoperaperta's fouth edition proposes a theme of spatial perception – La Superficie Assoluta – The Absolute Surface – inspired by the work of Raymond Ruyer, French philospher and mentor to many other philosophers in 20th century France (such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari)
As always, Hoperaperta builds bridges between architects, designers, artists, and the Italian furniture industry to create works of art and design. For the 2022 edition of Fuorisalone the project extends throughout the city with two venues. The first, in collaboration with Boutique Banner (multibrand Milanese boutique, part of Biffi Boutiques, known for it's mix of fashion, art, and design) is the Spazio Banner, a polyfunctional space adjacent to the store in Via Sant'Andrea created to host exhibitions, pop-up shops, and creative synergies. The second is the terrace of the Ariston Hotel in Largo Carrobio, in collaboration with 5vie and Hotel Ariston Milano
“The absolute surface is a holistic surface, a total visual field that includes the observer and the observed without limitations, without borders. The limits of this continuum are defined only by our determination to retrace these forms to an aesthetic conscience. A concept that underlies the possibility of subverting our perception of space-time. The absolute surface expresses itself through a trans-spatial and trans-temporal potential that brings observer and observed into a single perceptive domain.”
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At Spazio Banner the project is articulated in three different and progressive levels of “surface relationships:” one tied to Space, between light (time) and matter, one tied to Form, intended as expression and emotion, and one tied to Image, meaning memory and symbolic form
Displaying works by Maurizio Barberis, Armando Bruno and Alberto Torres, Luigi Ciuffreda, Alfonso Femia, Duccio Grassi, Tiziano Guardini, Alessandro Melis and Liyth Musallam, Roberta Orio, Steve Piccolo, Sonia Ros, Davide Valoppi, Carmelo Zappulla
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The Ariston Hotel will instead present Cosmologie Domestiche – Domestic Cosmologies – a collection of 13 unique pieces, including vases and other items intended as Symbolic Forms, from the Holy Grail to Duchamp's Urinal (Fontaine 1917) the thousand forms of an object as old as human kind, considered here not for its necessary functional worth, but for its possible aesthetic and symbolic value
Displaying works by Alessio Bertallot & Pointillistico (audio installation), Analogia Project, Cristina Fiorenza, Ivan Forcadell with Juan Salvado, Irene Nordli, Anne-Sophie Oberkrome, Matteo Pellegrino, Rudy Ricciotti with Marco Arioldi, Zanellato/Bortotto
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Each piece has been created with the participation of Cromonichel, De Castelli, Del Savio 1910, Dresswall, Julia Marmi, Marmi Faedo, Materica, Oemmebi, Sprech, Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua, Danilo Trogu, Visualplex leading Italian firms in metal, ceramic, stone, marble, and plexiglas craftsmanship, all of which operate with a sustainable approach which adds value to the environments in which they operate
HOPERAPERTA MILANO DESIGN WEEK 2022
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SPAZIO BANNER
La superficie assoluta
curated by Patrizia Catalano and Maurizio Barberis
In collaboration with Banner, Via Sant'Andrea 8a, Milano
6 - 12 June 2022, 10.30am – 7.30pm
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TERRAZZA ARISTON
La superficie assoluta. Cosmologie domestiche
curated by Patrizia Catalano, Martina Barberis Casagrande e Benedetta Scarella
In collaboration with 5Vie and Hotel Ariston Milano, Largo Carrobbio 2, Milano
6 - 12 June 2022, 11.00am - 8.00pm
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Project in collaboration with:
Banner, Ariston Hotel, 5Vie, Martina Bozzano Fideuram Private Banker,
We would like to thank:
Format Gallery, Galleria Luisa delle Piane, Gilda Contemporary Art, Big Broker Insurance Group, Carlo Biasia
For technical and intstallation support:
Zeus, Antonangeli, Artemide, Candle Store, Freitag, C.L. Italia
Food & Beverage: Montelvini, Patatas Nana, V8+
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