Lorenzo Marini's work of art meets the eco-design of Santambrogio Milano
Is titled 'Seat or Read? ' the signature crystal armchair Lorenzo Marini for Santambrogio Milan, on the occasion of Milan Design Week 2022. A work of art that disintegrates conventional distances and becomes an integral part of a contemporary design furniture, to be experienced daily through an intimate and informal relationship. Lorenzo Marini's letters, dissolved by their own intrinsic function, are placed on a crystal painting, also back of the seat, trespassing the mere communicative purposes of art and thus reaching a new tangible dimension. A change in the perceptual and relational experience in which art, from an object placed within a space, becomes the space itself.
“We are used to seeing art as something untouchable. Something to hang on the wall and look at with respect. " - declares Lorenzo Marini - "I wanted to overturn this paradigm by transforming my work 'Snowtype' (a snowfall of freed letters), into a sitting space and I did it with the material that more than any other contains all the light in the world: crystal . " - concludes.
A linear and essential design that of 'Seat or Read? in full Bauhaus style, faithful to the principles of functionalism and formal purism that characterize the entire twenty-year production of the brand Santambrogio Milan, specialized entirely in crystal design and architecture. The primitive geometric shapes of the seat are shaped by the rationality and lightness of the crystal, material eco-friendly and 100% recyclable. The attention paid to environmental sustainability it is not limited only to the material used, but also extends to the printing of Lorenzo Marini's work, made exclusively with ecological paints. Water jet cutting of glass is the cold process used for the production of the seat: this implies the absence of heat that can alter the chemical - physical characteristics of the crystal.
The synergy between art and design allows simultaneously with 'Seat or Read? ' on the one hand to admire the enhancement of the aesthetics of Marini's letters, looking beyond the alphabetic structure and semantics and, on the other, to literally look through this work of art thanks to the total transparency of the crystal that amplifies the spaces and it reduces its boundaries.
Salone del Mobile Fiera Milano, Rho (hall 6, stand E-31)
7 - 12 June 2022
Milan, Santambrogio Milan Showroom (via Francesco Sforza 14)
Information: tel. +39 02 76020788; [email protected]
Milan, Spazio Certosa Initiative (via Barnaba Oriani 27)
7 - 12 June 2022
Opening hours Spazio Certosa Initiative
7 - 11 June, 12.00 - 23.00
12 June, 12.00 - 17.00
Free admission
Milan, Gracis Gallery (Piazza Castello 16)
Until June 25 2022
Gracis Gallery opening hours:
Monday-Friday, 10.00-13.00; 14.00-18.00
Free admission
Information: tel. +39 02 877 807; [email protected]
At the end of the Milan Design Week, 'Seat or Read? ' will be presented to New York and Miami at the Santambrogio Milano showrooms.
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LORENZO MARINI is an Italian artist who lives and works in Milan, Los Angeles and New York.
After his artistic studies and a degree in Architecture in Venice, in 1997 he founded Lorenzo Marini & Associati, an agency with offices in Milan and Turin and since 2010 also in New York. In his career as an art director he was awarded over 300 national and international awards. A multidisciplinary artist, he has devoted himself over the years to numerous activities: from cartooning to directing and from painting to writing.
In 2016 Marini has an artistic intuition that leads him to celebrate the beauty of letters.
The first exhibitions are held in New York and Miami where he also participates in Art Basel Miami. In 2016 he baptized the “Type Art” at the Palazzo della Permanente in Milan, a movement of which he is the leader and which leads him to exhibit at the 2017th Venice Biennale in 57.
In 2017 Lorenzo Marini was awarded the Advertising in Art award, an award introduced at the 11th edition of the NC Awards. Since 2019 he has collaborated with Cramum and with Sabino Maria Frassà: the AlphaCUBE installation presented for DesignWeek 2019 by Ventura Projects, is exhibited in Venice on the occasion of the 58th Biennale of art, then in Dubai and finally in Los Angeles. In 2020 he won the Mobius Awards in Los Angeles, an international competition award for the creativity of the new alphabet he created, the Futurtype. In the same year he presented the new cycle of works "Typemoticon" on the occasion of his personal "Out of Words" at Gaggenau Hub in Milan. In 2021 the anthology of him in Siena "Di Segni e Di Sogni" was awarded as the most visited contemporary art exhibition of the year, reaching 50.000 visitors. In 2022 the personal exhibition “Olivettype” at the former headquarters of Olivetti, now Unesco heritage in Ivrea. In June 2022 the Gracis Gallery in Milan hosts the Alphatype2022 exhibition which offers twenty works by Lorenzo Marini, which document the artist's last ten years of activity.
SANTAMBROGIO MILAN founded in 2003, is a design company that works with crystal and is able to create 100% transparent architecture and provide a vision of life based on 360 ° transparency. The Santambrogio Milano collection can be inserted in any environment (home, office, outdoor and public space) without interfering with the surrounding elements.
