“AUTARKY” IS AN INSTALLATION THAT PROPOSES AN AUTONOMOUS WAY OF PRODUCING GOODS AND OUTLINES A HYPOTHETICAL SCENARIO WHERE A COMMUNITY IS EMBRACING A SERENE AND SELF INFLICTED EMBARGO WHERE NATURE IS PERSONALLY CULTIVATED, HARVESTED AND PROCESSED, TO FEED AND MAKE TOOLS TO SERVE HUMAN NECESSITIES.
"Rapsodia " is a spontaneous graphic account and it is composed by a book, a lamp, and two fonts. This experiment, inverts the normal creative process of storyboard, plot and transcription...
CALTAGIRONE IS A SMALL CITY IN SICILY, FAMOUS FOR ITS CERAMIC AND ITS PURPORTED LOCAL TRADITION. THREE HUNDRED CRAFTSMEN ARE WORKING IN THE CITY.
IN CALTAGIRONE CRAFT IT IS NOT RARE...
THE OBJECTS DISPLAYED IN THE BOTANICA COLLECTION ARE DESIGNED AS IF THE OIL- BASED ERA, IN WHICH WE ARE LIVING, NEVER TOOK PLACE. ALMOST AS IF HISTORIANS, STUDIO FORMAFANTASMA INVESTIGATED THE PRE-BAKELITE PERIOD, DISCOVERING UNEXPECTED TEXTURES, FEELINGS AND TECHNICAL POSSIBILITIES OFFERED BY NATURAL POLYMERS EXTRACTED FROM PLANTS OR ANIMAL-DERIVATIVES.
COMMISSIONED BY DILMOS GALLERY, THE LOW CHAIR DOMESTICA IS AN INVESTIGATION BY STUDIO FORMAFANTASMA OF RURAL CRAFT AND ITS ARCHETYPES. THE REFERENCE IS TO THE GERLA BASKET, A CONTAINER USUALLY USED BY FARMERS TO COLLECT HARVESTED CEREALS AND TRANSPORTED AS A BAG-PACK.
18TH CENTURY ROCOCO DECORS OF ROMANTIC ROSES AND PERFECTLY SYMMETRICAL LEAVES, EXIST TODAY THROUGH TRADITIONAL NEEDLEPOINT TECHNIQUES, FORCING NATURE INTO MANS IMAGE. AS A REACTION TO THIS IDEALISED REPRESENTATION OF NATURE, STUDIO FORMAFANTASMA DESIGNED A COLLECTION OF THREE RUGS INSPIRED BY THE WORK OF 19TH CENTURY ORNITHOLOGIST JAN JAMES AUDUBON.
“COLONY” - 2011
COLONY IS A SERIES OF MOHAIR BLANKETS THAT CELEBRATE THE NARRATIVE POTENTIAL OF TEXTILES. EACH OF THE BLANKETS, REFERS TO A MAJOR COLONY (LIBYA, ERITREA, ETHIOPIA) THAT ITALY HELD UNTIL THE MID 1940S. THE SERIES IS A PRESCIENT ACCOUNT OF THE IMPACT OF ITALIAN IMPERIALISM ON THE URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE OF THESE FORMER COLONIES AND THE COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP THESE COUNTRIES NOW HAVE WITH ITALY.
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