A small percentage of the world population owns approximately 50% of global wealth. With this intervention I try to show this unfair distribution, using a series of objects of daily use as statistical graphs.

The outcome: a series of 16 photographs, 20 x 20 cm, was exhibited in the exhibition NEW WORKS, at Kunstverein Leipzig, Germany. This project was developed during my stay at Residency Blumen.

For Sale. Limited Edition. 20 X 20 cm.
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Exhibition photos: Daniel Uhlmann.

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.

Logos, as well as primary shapes (triangle, square and circle), tend towards purity and simplicity, they strongly act in the collective imaginary and they are easily recognizable by children. I designed this pedagogical toy in collaboration with Antonio Rilievo, as part of the project Bauhaus Revisited.

This wooden prototype was produced with a laser cutting machine at Fablab Amsterdam.

Exhibition at Kunstverein Leipzig.
With New Works realized at Residency Blumen.

Exhibition photos: Daniel Uhlmann.

Flyer: David Voss

Print. 59,4 x 84,1 cm.

Print. 84,1 x 59,4 cm.

Interview published on elmanco.com