01/04/2010

DESIGN BOOK, IL VOLTO INTERNAZIONALE DEL DESIGN

An appreciated return, this time at Innovation/Imagination, of Design- Book, a real photographic set to portray the face of the International contemporary design, organized in collaboration with Tau Visual. The shooting will regard important persons, designers, artists, journalists and creative people selected through a direct on-demand casting. All the photos subjects will receive a polaroid and will be part of the dedicated online gallery.
Info: associazione@fotografi.org / www.design-book.org

01/04/2010

DESIGNMACHINE

Civico31 presents inside  Innovation/Imagination a new way to buy design: a super distributor allows to promote and sell directly the objects created by designers, architects and small factories. The aim of this project is to distribute design objects in a new innovative way, freeing it from the traditional placement into real or virtual shops.

31/03/2010

WELCOME HOUSE

An eco-friendly, natural, elegant, surprising architecture. It is the first impact with the Temporary Museum reception area, where guests and visitors are registered. The small prefabricated pavilion, distinguished by pure Finnish design, created and furnished by Punkalive, is extraordinary in its lines, solutions and technology. Besides the reception, it hosts also the brand's exhibition area.

30/03/2010

LETIZIA MORATTI VISITING (CON)TEMPORARYART

The Major of Milan, Letizia Moratti, unexpectedly visited (con)TmporaryArt at Superstudio Più. Together with Gisella Borioli, who had conceived the event with Giovanni Bonelli,  art dealer and consultant, she went around across the spaces duelling on the exhibition of Stefano Abbiati, on the anthological exhibition by Flavio Lucchini, on the personal exhibition by Marillina Fortuna. She appreciated the presence of internationally famous artist such as Shepard Fairey and Banksy, but also the presence of young italian artist spread in the halls. She admired the imposing exhibition of ExtraExtraLarge with its big works of art, she smiled fopr the curious exhibition ExtraExtraSmall, with minimal art works. At the end she declared to the medias and tv that (con)TemporaryArt is finally a periodical event strictly linked with the cultural material of the city. Thank you, Major!

30/03/2010

GIULIO CAPPELLINI, ART DIRECTOR

The attention to style, the strong and elegant mark, the rigorous yet open selection, the coordinated graphics, the cultural edge, the constant focus on quality are the distinctive traits which turned the Temporary Museum for New Design at Superstudio Più into the most significant center of all the exhibitions in the Tortona area. A radical innovation in the exhibition field which once again relies on the Giulio Cappellini's art-direction, who provided an extraordinary layout to Gisella Borioli's project.

30/03/2010

THE METROWEB MANHOLE COVERS SOLD AT AUCTION

It's been a fighted and exciting auction: we are talking about the CHRISTIE'S auction of the 32 manhole covers that have invaded the Tortona area since June 2009 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of METROWEB, the owner of the biggest optical fibres network’s in Europe.

40000 euros have been raised and devolved to AIPD Onlus – Associazione Italiana Persone Down ( the Italian association for the people affected by the Down Syndrome) for the school observatory project AIPD. " We are glad to conclude this event, that has been a great success, contributing to a cause that we consider very important through a tangible support to a real project that is going to be realized in Milan and in the whole country", said Alberto Trondoli, the managing director of Metroweb.
All the protagonists attended the auction: the originator of the lucky project Monica Nascimbeni, the Art Director Gisella Borioli, the curator Davide Giannella and many artists who interpreted the theme of the NETWORK and its contemporary language: 108, 2501, Abbominevole, Bo130, Bros, Dem, El Gato Chimney, Faust, Luze, maba, Microbo, Ozmo, Pho, Veronique Pozzi, Santy, Sten&Lex, Ufo5.

29/03/2010

CITY LANDSCAPE

The entrance to Superstudio Più's main pavilion immediately leads visitors to a different atmosphere. An urban landscape between art and design creates an unexpected panorama: along the "road" stand the graphic skyscrapers, created by Flavio Lucchini and produced by Jannelli&Volpi with WallPaperonDemand technique. On the opposite side, the super famous Arco lamps, exceptionally produced by Flos, rise like giants, while a series of videos intrigue the audience with a very relevant interview by the great Achille Castiglioni, who created them. Nearby, the big alveolar paper snake by Molo develops as a seating place, where visitors can rest.

28/03/2010

ART SHOPPER SUPERSTUDIO

The graphic and pictorial variations on the Superstudio name, created by Flavio Lucchini for the 2009 Temporary Museum, have become beautiful shopping bags to collect. The 9 subjects for the 81 two-faced and different combinations allow to choose one's favorite shopper. Produced by DxG Giustacchini Packaging, a company specialized in creative and unusual shoppers.

27/03/2010

LIGHT SKYSCRAPERS

On the indoor "square", working as a junction between the main "road" of the Temporary Museum and the other “streets” leading to the different exhibition areas, inside and outside, up and down, another lighting installation captures the attention. It is the “Fiber Evolution” by Marc Sadler for Foscarini, three skyscrapers made by overlapping white glass fabric and black carbon fiber.

26/03/2010

ARCHISTARS

An emotional red-carpet reading the list of the renowned architects who are attending Superstudio Più with their projects. To name just a few: Fernando and Humberto Campana, Paul Cockedge, Carlo Colombo, Cristophe Marchand, Marcel Wanders, Piero Lissoni, Paola Navone, Jean Nouvel, Tom Dixon, Arik Levy, Jasper Morrison, Marc Sadler, Matteo Thun, Alessandro Mendini...

25/03/2010

JEAN NOUVEL: INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

For the first time at the Fuori Salone, on stage in our Central Point of Superstudio Più, the famous French architect offers a fascinating and innovative solution, designed for Methis and devoted to the office world. He explains: "Hook is a wall which becomes an uninterrupted wall, with infinite potentials, where you can hook several accessories: a bearing of elements creating diversity." The concept? "A metal architecture, as a quote by Jean Prouvé, an idea created to capture light, to infuse life to the places hosting it." Milan welcomes with great interest this internationally renowned leading architect: what does our city have to do in order to maintain its leadership as design capital? Jean Nouvel answers briefly: “More than ever it must remain at the essential.” (Photo Gaston Bergeret)

24/03/2010

DESIGN CONTEST: LET THE BEST WIN

Inside the gallery, turned into an interactive installation revolving around the innovative concept by Cristalplant, you will find a precious, yet sophisticated and flexible as demanded by modern technology, material such as marble; Zanotta+Cristalplant Design Contest aimed at promoting young creativity. The best projects will be awarded and by best we mean those which combined at best Cristalplant versatility with the elegance of the historic brand Zanotta.

23/03/2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

The Brand van Egmond design studio by William Brand and Annet van Egmond, two artists who have introduced the design-couture concept in their sculpture-lamps, starting with the famous "Crystal Waters Hood" up to the romantic metal "roses", celebrates its twentieth birthday. To celebrate the brand's success and unique style, here comes their book entitled "Lighting Sculptures", which tells the long journey between technology and imagination towards a new concept of emotional design. After its launching in New York, the book will be present in Milan and the event will be attended by the authors along with Gisella Borioli, who wrote the introduction.

22/03/2010

THE VOGUE LESSON: A BOOK AND AN EXHIBITION FOR FLAVIO LUCCHINI

10/03/2010

SUPERSTUDIO PIU': LIKE A MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Superstudio Più was born with the affort to give space to all the expressions of creativity at the beginning of 2000: fashion, design, communication, dance and experimental theatre, contemporary art … Ten years later the purpose is reached: the location has become the first big multicultural, artistic, private exhibition centre in Milan, open to all the proposes without preconceptions in every internal and external space: the display window "art.box", the gallery "MyOwnGallery" for example. Superstudio has hosted the start up of really important and out of ordinary artistic events: from the theatral festival Uovo to the Mito concerts, from the exhibition China here to the Bros personal one, until the project Contemporary Art, a new and informal circuit of ultra-contemporary art between famous and not yet famous artists.
The third edition of (con)temporaryArt converts Superstudio in a real periodical Museum of contemporary art. Thanks to 26 exhibitions, thematic or personal, more than 100 artist, a room with enormous installations, other rooms with surprising exhibitions, the presence of international artista as Banksy and Shepard Fairey, Superstudio becomes a vast and inique space completely dedicated to art for a week, open to the people that love it and to the city.

09/03/2010

(CON)TEMPORARYART THIRD EDITION - March 22nd-30th

During the MiArt week, the con-temporary art path is back at Superstudio Più, the big exhibition center in the Tortona area, and in other locations of Milan's most creative neighborhood. An art Fuori-Salone, a surprising path, complementary to the Fair, an amazing event in the city, with unconventional offers and international visitors. Unprecedented projects, unexpected spaces, important artists, young up-and-coming talents, encounters, performances, temporary galleries.
25 exhibitions, 147 Italian and international artists, 20 curators. 10.000 expected visitors.
Two the international guest-stars of this third edition: Shepard Fairey, the artist who became a cultural phenomenon with Barack Obama's iconography, one of the most effective illustrations of the American politics, and Banksy, the most controversial street artist whose identity remains a mystery. Besides, there will also be the launching of Flavio Lucchini's book and exhibit, supervised by Luca Beatrice; the flowers by Dany Vescovi, Fulvio Di Piazza, Felipe Cardeña and Corrado Bonomi; the Cross Painting project by Italian Factory with Cristiano Tassinari, Svetlana Grebenyuk, Daniele Girardi, Luca Conca, Desiderio, Andrea Zucchi and Alessandro Busci; Stefano Abbiati's one-man exhibition, supervised by Gianluca Marziani. And more: in the Basement, the space devoted to young talents supervised by Chiara Canali, with J&Peg, Daniela Cavallo, Elena Monzo and Daniele D'Acquisto, in art.box the installation supervised by Alessandro Trabucco with Franko B, Michelangelo Galliani and Matteo Basilé, while on the outdoor walls of Superstudio the project by Art Kitchen with NEVE and Ivan and Giacomo Cossio's excavator/artwork.
Also, the surprises of "ExtraExtraLarge", the big-dimensioned artworks, supervised by Alberto Zanchetta and "ExtraExtraSmall", the small-dimensioned artworks, supervised by  Emma Gravagnuolo, Marillina Fortuna's recycle art, the international video-art show supervised by Daniele Capra, Andy's art-design pop objects and Umberto Voxci's cartoon installations. There will also be correlated special events and exhibitions in via Tortona and adjacent areas: Christie's auction at Palazzo Clerici of the Metroweb art manholes which have invaded the streets around the Tortona area, Alfredo Rapetti’s one-man exhibition at Anfiteatro Arte, the joint exhibitions at Rojo®artspace and in the Spazio Closed, and the performances at Teatro Libero.
The projects also envisages the participation of IULM University, which as main partner commits once more to the contemporary art, by involving, among other things, its students as art assistants and thus diversifying its already established presence at MiArt, in the art fairs. (In the picture: Banksy, Napalm, 2004, Andipa Gallery)
For a complete program and info visit the website: www.con-temporaryart.it

09/03/2010

MILAN REWARDS THE FIRSTLADIES ALPHABET

 21 ladies of Milan that aid to the growth and the life of our city: this the Firstladies Alphabet, wanted by the Mayor Letizia Moratti with the support of the Councillor for the Social Policy Mariolina Moioli  and the art direction of Gisella Borioli. Among the guests for the International Women's Day Paola navone, prized for the Design, Carla Vanni for the Journalism, Federica Olivares for the business, Federica Agosta for the Medicine, Mariavittoria Rava for the Volontary work. A particolar "thanks" to the managers, the volunteers,  the professors, the entrepreneurs, the politicians and the dealers that distinguished themselves in all the alphabet letters.

08/03/2010

THE EX ANSALDO FACTORY OPENS THE DOORS TO THE CREATIVITY

After the succes of the last edition of White, showroom of innovative fashion that has been hosted by Superstudio Più for eight years redoubling its offer thanks to the ex Ansaldo pavillons in front of its historical main, we can reveal a small "backstage story". The idea and the propose to revitalize the big rooms in via Tortona, that have been leaved for years to the oblivion and the decay, came again from Gisella Borioli, always alive to the chance of Zona Tortona, the fashion and the young creativity. After the presentation of a detailed plan to the Mayor Letizia Moratti and the Councillor G.Terzi at the end of 2009, the arrangement of the ex Ansaldo pavillons started right away. In the miracolous period of only two months the spaces returned to life, whitened and returned to safety thanks to the extraordinary work of the administration pool. Behind them, inside the area, the construction works of the “Museo delle Culture” (a project of David Chipperfield) and the “Museo delle Marionette” are going on. The frontal halls, at the low round and at the first floor, are ready (with the coordination and the Art Direction of Gisella Borioli) to host the next White editions, the Innovation/Imagination exhibition durino the Fuorisalone and other events of public and general interest, always connected to the creativity.

26/02/2010

WHITE REDOUBLES AT THE FORMER ANSALDO

Via Tortona 27 and now also via Tortona 54 (former Ansaldo): this is the new address of  White, on display from February 28th to March 2nd . Additional 4 thousand square meters for 350 brands on display which will present their Fall/Winter 2010-11 clothing and accessories collections. A special event which will launch the new location will be a thematic exhibition entitled "Tanto di cappello in White" (Hat Off in White): a gallery with 50 hats from the years 1910-1960, all rigorously white, selected among approximately three thousand vintage creations. Special guest of the exhibition: Elio Fiorucci.
Several novelties have been introduced in this season: the collaboration between the Salone and Vogue Italy in a project called "White and Vogue Introduce", which sees the fair and the magazine committed to support and promote young talents and the area  “Selection by C.l.a.s.s.” with eco-fashion, eco-home and eco-lifestyle creations by nine exclusive labels.  White Beauty, this year at its second edition, has been confirmed. At the same time of  White, the fashion shows by Gaetano Navarra, Massimo Rebecchi and Love Sex Money will take place at Superstudio 13.
For info: www.whiteshow.it

25/02/2010

AN APPOINTMENT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH THE "STUDENT'S HALL"

"Campus Orienta!" once again chooses Superstudio Più for its "Student's Hall", which will take place from March 10th until the 12th . As usual, the students will play the starring role at the event: meetings on education and job market, appointments with famous people of the culture and show-business world and places where students can gather advice on their expectations and on the path to take. All the initiatives will be included in an “underground itinerary” with the styles of the subways of the biggest world capitals. A map to experience and travel, where they can clearly orient themselves in order to get out of the event with some more certainties about the future. For info: dlubrano@lobcom.it