Andrea Cassi and Michele Versaci of EX with Giorgio Ferrero, have created an artwork composed of a series of photographs and a video made in Mybosswas studios (available in a limited edition at NContemporary Milano starting Miart 2024).
The idea of this for project and collaboration is thanks to Paolo Casati of FuoriSalone.it and Nicola Ricciardi of Miart. We thank the NContemporary gallery in Milan, which will distribute the work.
Project team
A photographic and audiovisual work by
EX (Andrea Cassi & Michele Versaci) & Giorgio Ferrero
Courtesy of NContemporary Milano
Production Manager
Cristina SanGiorgio
Editing
Carlo Cagnasso
Studio assistant
Matteo Moretti
Graphics
Studiolabo
Photos of the installation, Porta Nuova, Milan
Chiara Venegoni
“We spend our days designing in different areas devices for others. Devices that can embrace, amaze and hopefully, make us dream. Physical and mental spaces where we can improve the quality of our time. We have been collaborating as a group for several months fascinated by the idea of bringing together in a single project the different disciplines we are involved in – architecture, land art, photography, film and sound – to try to interpret with a point of view, heterogeneous as possible, the world around us. We realized that the part we love most about design, in whatever area it is applied, is observation: that moment when exploring the context allows us to question our point of view, in an attempt to push solutions toward an unexpected end point. The concept of Material and Nature that Fuorisalone asked us to explore, is open to different angles of interpretation: nature as material to be modified, shaped and reassembled to make an environment habitable; technique, the movement of human beings as defining actions and reactions in the natural habitat; the reaction of nature to the action that wants to transform it into material. Starting from these concepts and observing randomly pieces of nature in our daily lives, we realized that for once our viewpoint-anthropocentric and often egoriferous-could be challenged. We thought we should abandon, at least partially, the inertia of our human animal gaze, and try to look at the natural elements around us with different eyes, perhaps imperfect for us humans, perfect for someone else. In the simplicity of the material we found just that: an infinity of possible interpretations that exists before us and beyond us. And this seemed to us an excellent starting point for a new journey that we are happy to be able to share with you.”
Giorgio Ferrero e EX.
