From the 24th of February to the 25th of March 2012, Fabrica Features Lisbon will present Vera, Chapter One, a multi-disciplinary show evolving around a fictional character. Orchestrated by Kirsty Minns (KM), one of the young designers hosted at Fabrica, and French designer Érika Muller (ÉM). This first chapter, was launched during the London Design Festival in September 2011 and is part of an on-going project.
Exploring a literacy approach to design, this exhibition will show a surprising and eclectic body of work, including product design, illustration, graphics and olfactory design, by some emerging international talent.
Stepping away from the mass-market design approach which mainly produces for the average and standard end-consumer, the initial thinking process behind each of these pieces is a response to one individual. And that individual is Vera. Vera is a fictional character based on a series of photographs from a girl’s family found a few years ago in a second hand shop in Brighton. This group of artists and designers have been commissioned to respond to one image from the series in order to create the first chapter of Vera’s fictive and collaborative biography.
Vera’s material and sensorial world is brought into reality through this speculative body of work. The exhibition room is her intimate space into which the visitor is invited to discover an original series of suppositional artifacts.
Includes the work of
Tomás Alonso – Spanish Product Designer – London
Camille Blin – French Product Designer – Lausanne
Arlette Ess – Swiss Accessories Designer – London
Malika Favre – French Illustrator – London
Roma Levin – Russian Illustrator / Graphic Designer – London
José Levy – French Product Designer – Paris
Loris & Livia – Swiss Product Designers – London
Phillippe Malouin – Canadian Product Designer – London
Kirsty Minns – English Product Designer – London
Eelko Moorer – Dutch Accessories & Shoe Designer – London
Érika Muller – French Graphic Designer – London
Emmanuel Philip – French Olfactive Designer – Paris
Study O Portable – Dutch & Japanese Accessories Designers – London
The team, KM and ÉM
Kirsty Minns and Érika Muller first met in 2008 at Established & Sons, a well renowned British furniture manufacturer. Whilst working together over three years on high scale projects and events based in the UK as well as abroad, Érika and Kirsty discovered a common likeness for ‘out of the norm’ projects. Rich of their complimentary experience covering a wide spectrum of the Design processes – Product Design, Product Development, Art Direction and Visual Communication – Kirsty and Érika are teaming up for this first exhibition ‘Vera Chapter One’ inviting a series of talented creatives to play around a shared theme. The project was born out of their mutual desire to create an exhibition that could be used as a medium to stimulate discussion and debate as well as celebrate a narrative approach to the world of design.
Vera, Chapter One
24 February – 25 March
Opening: February 24th at 6:00 p.m.
Fabrica Features Lisboa
Rua Garret (Chiado)
Nº 83-4º andar
Lisbon, Portugal
www.verachapterone.com
http://fabrica-features-lisboa.blogspot.com
www.fabricafeatures.com
www.fabrica.it
For further information please contact:
F A B R I C A
Angela Quintavalle
angie@fabrica.it
ph: 0039 0422 516209
Fabrica has been invited to contribute to "Take a seat", the new online magazine about the world of sitting promoted by the Italian Chair District.
Sam Baron, the head of Fabrica Design Department, together with his international team of young designers will write articles about design and trends releated to the chair concept on a monthly basis.
On line from February 16th
Follow us on: www.italian-chair-district.it
Fabrica is a guest of MUDAM in Luxembourg with the projects Next Cabane and The Riot Act
Gao Brothers, Gao Zhen and Gao Qiang, are the authors and editors of several published works, including “One Day In Beijing”, “The State Of China Avant-Garde” and “The Report Of Art Environment”. They have been collaborating on installation, performance, photography works and writing to explore issues of contemporary life and society since the mid 1980s.
Gao Brothers carried out their first group hug performance, "The Utopia Of Hugging For Twenty Minutes" on September 10, 2000 by inviting one hundred and fifty volunteers, who were previously strangers to each other, to take part in the event. They asked all participants to choose a person at random for a hug of fifteen minutes duration. Afterwards, all participants huddled together for an additional five minutes. They are proposing an ongoing series of World Hug Day events around the globe via the internet, and so far have got enormous feedback and support.
Since 2000, Gao Brothers have hugged hundreds of strangers and organized group hugging performances with strangers at many public locations in different ways and have taken a lot of interesting photographs.
For more information about Gao Brothers’ activity:
www.gaobrothers.net
http://www.facebook.com/gaobrothers?ref=ts
http://www.world-hug-day.net/
The lecture will be in Chinese with English translation.
Owing to the limited number of seats available, attendance should be confirmed to:
Erica Zuccarello
erica.zuccarello@colorsmagazine.com
ph: +39 0422 516315
