Works

For the edition of Fuorisalone 2016, the Alberto Levi Gallery proposes Works an event composed of four exhibitions, distinct from each other but united by the same thin line that moves between art and design.

Barbara Frua De Angeli is an interior designer from Milan, her work is based on the use of color and its combinations, sometimes particular, but always harmonious. In her new collection Dhurries the carpets come from India, they are hand-woven in cotton and colored with vegetable dyes. The use of the latter has allowed Barbara to personalize each carpet in a unique way.

Thorsten Reuber and Franziska Henning are a duo from Berlin; in 2007 they founded their studio and dedicated themselves to the creation of Tibetan carpets in Kathmandu, Nepal. They use the highest quality materials such as Chinese silk and wool from the Himalayas, spinning them entirely by hand. In Milan they present their Stripes collection, created by the designer Birgit Krah and composed of horizontal striped patterns in different variants using 70 different colors without repetition. The result is an apparently random chromatic miscellany composed of polychrome stripes in the Stripes-Classic, Stripes-Checker, Stripes-Left Over Yarn versions.

Angela Florio, Venetian by origin, lives and works in Milan where in 2000 she founded DecorAzione, a movement of art applied to the environment in which she designs and manufactures modular systems for interiors. For the event she will present her works related to Arràs, visual masterpieces of textile art obtained through an interweaving of optical fiber filaments enclosed within hand-painted fabrics, following a contemporary interpretation of the medieval tapestry. Three works will be exhibited: Foglie (Leaves), dyed with gold dust similar to the precious Japanese Urushi lacquer, Meduse di Mare (Jellyfish of the Sea), an interactive tapestry conceived with a system that makes it sensitive to the solicitations of sound and light, and Trittico della Chiesa de La Salute di Venezia (Triptych of the Church of La Salute in Venice), the artist's homage to his hometown.

Andrea Costa is a conceptual artist. In the apparent simplicity of his maps he encloses a path that starts from far away: starting with photography and then moving on to travel, portrait painting, historical research and then arriving at Art Branding. The artist treats the maps with special paints to make them thick, textured; then he paints texts on them, derived from historical memory and linked to the various experiences of the human journey. The cues are the most disparate: literature, history, cinema, music but also advertising, industry and sport. In this way, in front of the map we are invited to reflect on ourselves, on our experience with memory and with the territory. For the Fuorisalone will be exhibited, among others, the last work: a map of Berlin in honor of John F. Kennedy's speech, Ich bin Ein Berliner of June 26, 1963.