A PROJECT BY PATRIZIA CATALANO AND MAURIZIO BARBERIS. The collection of signature pieces, was designed by Alfonso Femia / AF* Design, Duccio Grassi, Federico Spagnulo, Fabio Cammarata, Maurizio Barberis and NùeVù update the idea of decoration.
HoperAperta presented a collection created by 6 authors whose objects had been conceived, imagined and produced as one-offs. The authors, architetcts and art-designer had been invited to collaborate with companies to reinterpret the project as the result of research and discussion, in order to design the forms and materials of the decoration of space. Alfonso Femia, Duccio Grassi, Federico Spagnulo, Fabio Cammarata, NùeVù, Maurizio Barberis and Steve Piccolo, creative talents with different backgrounds, enter a dialogue on a single theme, each with their own vision of the world.
An exhibition in which design dissolves into art and a new concept of decoration appears on the horizon, shifting the forms towards artifacts packed with symbolic value and a rediscovered narrative poetic. In HoperAperta, decoration becomes the foundation of forms and objects, through a reassignment of the original meaning of “decorum,” of its relationship with the telling of a story, many stories, past, present and future. Not a style, then, but a direction in which forms become part of a method that restores meaning and depth to the action of dwelling.
HoperAperta is a choral effort which bring together different kinds of expertise, companies, architects, designers and artists, all invited to collaborate, on a single path whose destination is the transformation of a serial object (design) into a unique object (art-design), and a unique object into a work of art.
