(Feb 20) – The Italian Embassy in Paris is one of the partners of 2012 edition of Designer’s Days, fair of the Parisian design this year dedicated to “identité(s)”. Organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Communication, it is scheduled in the French capital from May 31st to June 4th. The Italian embassy will host the exhibition “The Seven Obsessions of Italian Design”, designed by the Triennale of Milan. The history of Italian design will be presented through objects and a film contribution by Peter Greenaway and other Italian directors, who will render the obsessions of Italian design: Antonio Capuano with ‘La luce dello spirito. Lampade, raggi, realtà immateriali, dal Barocco a oggi’; Pappi Corsicato, with ‘Il super-comfort elaborazione problematica di comodità popolare’; Davide Ferrario, with ‘La dinamicità dai Futuristi alla ricerca di instabilità, velocità, provvisorietà moderna’; Daniele Luchetti with ‘La democrazia impilabile alla ricerca di serialità, impilabilità, lavabilità; ‘Mario Martone’, with ‘Il teatro animista da Pompei agli oggetti di scena contemporanei’; Ermanno Olmi, with ‘I grandi semplici dai Paleocristiani all’attuale ricerca di archetipi’; Silvio Soldini, with ‘I grandi borghesi e la sacralità del lusso: come primo fondamento del consenso sociale attorno al Design italiano e alla sua memoria del lusso sacro dei Bizantini’. Visitors can go around the seven performances in the Hôtel de la Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville. (Ram)
PARIS, WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL
During the Designer’s Days, Paris will become for a week the world capital of design. Goal of the 2012 edition is to show the public how it is possible to overcome the architectural concept of border through special techniques, materials and language. Visitors can interact with designers to learn firsthand their creative process and to catch one of the design’s main mission: improving people’s lives. There will be space for firms and young entrepreneurs to encourage new design companies.
