Approximately 50% was exhibited at Paradiso Phone Expo. 21 June – 21 July, 2012. Paradiso, Amsterdam.
Approximately 50%
Series of Photos
2012
Approximately 50% of the world’s population owns a mobile phone. And approximately 50% of global wealth is in the hands of the richest 1%. Approximately 50% of public expenditure (which used to cover costs for culture, education, public healthcare, etc…) was cut in Italy and many other EU countries in the same year, due to newly implemented austherity measures. Approximately 50% is an attempt to visualise consumption, unfairness, and a series of political reflections in a given context, rearranging objects from so called daily life, and using them as stats or ruins.
A series of 16 photographs created for Paradiso Phone Expo, Art on your Mobile Phone!
This project was developed during my stay at Residency Blumen and also exhibited in NEW WORKS, at Kunstverein Leipzig, Germany.
Digital Print. 20 X 20 cm. Edition 5.
Price on request: info@jesuismonreve.org
Exhibition photos: Daniel Uhlmann.
Bauhaus Revisited
Poster
Object
2012
Bauhaus Revisited is based on the reinterpretation of a theory developed at Bauhaus in the early 20’s concerning the association of primary shapes and primary colors. The logos of McDonalds, Nike and Apple, use the same primary colors and there is a similarity, to a certain extent, with the Bauhaus shapes. Logos, as well as primary shapes, tend towards purity and simplicity, they strongly act in the collective imaginary and they are easily recognizable by children. The intellectual charge of the Bauhaus, though, went lost, substituted probably by marketing logics.
At Bauhaus, in the early 20’s, the theory of primary shapes and primary colors developed by Wassily Kandinsky and Heinrich Bormann, has been taken as a starting point to design a series of objects. Following the same way of operating, I asked Gianluca Gimini to design a low table using the logos instead.
This model for a low table was realized in collaboration with product designer Gianluca Gimini. A wooden prototype is under construction.
Pedagogical Toy
Object
2012
My studies at Bauhaus University have had a strong influence over my imaginary, especially the Bauhaus artistic theories and applications revolving around primary shapes (triangle, square, circle) and primary colours (yellow, red, blue). Logos, as well as primary shapes, tend towards purity and simplicity. They strongly act in the collective imaginary and are easily recognizable by children at a young age, even before these learn to read and write. This is the redesign of a classic pedagogical toy for babies and toddlers which normally uses primary shapes and primary colours for playing and learning. Part of the Bauhaus Revisited project, that includes a few other objects.
This wooden prototype was produced with a laser cutting machine at Fablab Amsterdam.
May 2012
Exhibition at Kunstverein Leipzig.
With New Works realized at Residency Blumen.
Exhibition photos: Daniel Uhlmann.
Flyer: David Voss
Apr 2012
Interview published on elmanco.com
Apr 2012
Interview at Radio Mephisto Leipzig.