“Quali cose siamo” – Curator: Alessandro Mendini
TRIENNALE DESIGN MUSEUM Milano (Italy)
from March 27th, 2010 till March 27th, 2011

One of Pierluigi Piu’s works conceived for the 19th Biennial of Sardinian Arts & Crafts - held in Sassari (Italy) on last August 2009 - has been selected by Alessandro Mendini, curator of the exhibition Quali cose siamo, and will be shown at Milano’s Triennale Design Museum from next March 27th, 2010 till March 27th, 2011.
The curator’s hypothesis for this third edition (the two previous ones were entitled “The seven obsessions of Italian Design” and “Custom-built Series”) is that there is in Italy a wide and endless world parallel to the one of renown brands design; an invisibile and non orthodox design, authors, products and manufacturers of which are of remarkable social and anthropological importance and are probably more strongly connected to mass consumers than visibile design is. Such theory moves our observation point further, so provoking lacks of balance and wrongfootings, but is extremely productive and rich in emotion and spectacularity... next

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