Cape Town – The New Italian Design exhibition, curated by Silvana Annicchiarico and Andrea Branzi, will for the first time present Italian design in South Africa, explaining the links to the economic, political, and technological changes that occurred over the past century. The exhibit is a rich and multifaceted overview on contemporary Italian design, with 288 projects by 133 Italian designers, ranging from self-produced prototypes to large-series products, from works of art to industrial artefacts. The New Italian Design is a traveling exhibition, presented for the first time at the Triennale di Milano in 2007 and then in Madrid (2007), Istanbul (2010), Beijing and Nantou (2012), Bilbao, San Francisco and Santiago, Chile (2013). It is the result of a survey on a national scale. Roughly 600 designers entered the data bank, of which 140 were invited. The others presented themselves as candidates. (9colonne)
