Carlo Prada: Salone del Mobile, Milano

Rossana Orlandi Gallery hosts Bless project n. 29: Wallscapes. It doesn’t matter where we are. It doesn’t matter what’s the climate outside. It doesn’t matter which side of the world we live in. All the spaces are now interchangeable and fused together in habitable ways. This is possible through bi-dimensional wallscapes available either as poster or mobile panels showing interiors and exteriors with a widening side-effect. What is familiar it’s given a chance of altering its domestic aspect with a new and unexpected sympathetic atmosphere. As part of Bless project n. 28  Climate Confusion Assistance, fur and sofa shaped hammocks are lazily swinging indoor in order to lighten metropolitan hectic life.

Spazio Lima is showing another Bless vision of daily routine. Cables, mobile and multiple plugs are now given a new appeal which translates them into beautiful objects proud to be seen and not to be considered as mere appendix any longer.

Edra Showroom is offering some peaceful moments of relax from the itinerary of Salone del Mobile showing Historia Naturalis by Campana brothers.

 

Let’s have some rest over the fishy and reticular sofas or find a way out from their iron daedalic table.

Triennale has some surprises in a creepy closet showing “Il Diavolo del Focolare”. All around the rooms created especially for the event, is a complex and dialectical reconstruction of interiors featuring works by artists who have probed the theme of the home in different personal ways. A welcome mat by Mona Hatoum made out of nails; a table made out of plaster wood and glass by Rachel Whiteread; the allusive chair-cum-mannequin created by Sara Lucas; two giant screws  jutting out of the floor of Sara Ciracì’s installation; the Virgin by Kiki Smith, an allegory of a woman driven into a corner and ready to scream without being heard; Irene Papas, a living icon of classic theatre, conveys her vision of Byzantium while Patty Smith, who previously performed in one of the rooms, reveals her cryptic white vision.

Culture has breathed across Japan for many years. Before plastic many products were created by elaborated woodwork. And what if plastic had never been invented? MONACCA is trial in which a modern person looks back upon the past and reproduces a present day following a tree culture.

Jorge Pardo at Giò Marconi  shows tables reworked by computer-aided design of vivid colours in a game of geometry and abstractism. T-shirts hanging form the walls display previous Pardo’s works with a prismatical effect.

Finally Tom Sacks at Fondazione Prada takes us ton a journey far form the shore where whales made out of fiberglass are only caught by the eye of a wooden sea control tower. And I’m queuing to get into it.

Pictures: courtesy of Galleria Rossana Orlandi, via Bandello 14; Spazio Lima, via Masera; Edra Showroom, via Ciovassino 3; Triennale, viale Alemagna 6; Giò Marconi, via Tadino 15; Fondazione Prada, via Fogazzaro 36. Special thanks to Baby Jane and Domenico.