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FORMAFANTASMA WORKSHOP AT FABRICA
Feb 06, 2012

The Italian designers Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin (www.formafantasma.com) will hold a three-day workshop "Harvesting Nature" at Fabrica from February 6th to 8th, 2012.
Participation is free and open to a maximum of 10 external participants, and will be determined by review of CV and portfolio that must be both emailed by January 25 to: omar.vulpinari@fabrica.it
and sam.baron@fabrica.it. External candidates must demonstrate product design training. 
Lunch and facilities included.
 
Workshop brief
“Harvesting Nature” workshop will encourage the participants to develop concepts and small models or prototypes using nature as the source. The natural environment, and its original features will be literally harvested in search of colours, materials, textures and inspiration for new production processes.
 
Studio FormaFantasma biography
Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin are  Studio FormaFantasma – two italian designers based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The work of Studio FormaFantasma touches relevant design issues such as the role of design in folk craft, the relationship between tradition and local culture, a critical approach to sustainability, and the significance of objects as cultural vectors. The studio is interested in creating a design practice that merges craft and industry, local necessity within the global context, and on a conceptual level in stimulating a more critical and conscious relationship of the user with objects.
Works of Studio FormaFantasma have been shown during the Milan and the Dutch Design weeks, Abu Dhabi Art, during the ICFF in New York, Design Miami\Basel, the prestigious auction house Sotheby’s in London and other international design fairs and exhibition. Works by FormaFantasma are part of the collection of: Droog Design, Rossana Orlandi Gallery in Milan, Moss gallery NY, Nodus Rugs, Dilmos Gallery and Libby Sellers gallery. In March 2011 Studio FormaFantasma has been nominated by Alice Rawsthorn, design critic of the International Herald Tribune and New York Times and Paola Antonelli, design curator of the MOMA in NY, as 1 of the world’s 20 most promising young design studios.  

THE GAO BROTHERS AT FABRICA - TUESDAY JANUARY 31ST AT 5:00 PM
Jan 31, 2012

On Tuesday, January 31st at 5:00 p.m. Fabrica will host a lecture of the famous Chinese artists Gao Brothers.

 

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


DERAGLIAMENTI, THE LATEST FABRICA VIDEO PRODUCTION, COMPETES TO SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Jan 26, 2012

Fabrica, the creative lab of the Benetton Group, announces the participation of its recent production, Deragliamenti, in the official selection at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, as part of the Short Film Programme, scheduled from Jan 26th to Feb 5th.
 
Deragliamenti tells of Milo Manara’s experience and joint work with Federico Fellini to transform the screenplay of the film Il Viaggio di Mastorna detto Fernet into a comic strip.
 
Originally written by Federico Fellini, Il Viaggio di Mastorna detto Fernet has been defined as “the most famous film never made”. Fellini’s decision to abandon the project just before the start of filming is shrouded in mystery. The most likely explanation is that the film in some way brought him face to face with his own death. It tells in fact of the wandering journey of a cellist in the afterlife and the project was described by Fellini himself as “the story of a man who is dead without knowing it”.
 
At the age of seventy-two Fellini started work with a longstanding friend, one of the world’s best known illustrators, Milo Manara, on a project entitled Il Viaggio, to transform the screenplay of Il Viaggio di Mastorna detto Fernet into a comic strip and in this way exorcise the lack of closure of the film. Ironically Il Viaggio was Fellini’s last work before his death in 1993.
 
Deragliamenti was produced entirely by Fabrica and directed by Chelsea McMullan, a young Canadian resident in the video area who has already produced experimental videos and documentaries.
The short documentary participated in official selection at the 2011 edition of Toronto and Vancouver International Film Festival, while its trailer features at the first anthological exhibition on Milo Manara, set up at the Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala, in Siena, open until April 9, 2012.
 
 
SHOWINGS:
Saturday, January 28, at 4.00pm
Thursday, February 2, at 7.00pm
 
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State St. , Santa Barbara , CA 93101
 
For further details please contact:
Loredana Rigato
Fabrica Press Office
+39-0422-516340
 

LIVE WINDOWS GO TO DSE, LAS VEGAS
Jan 18, 2012

Fabrica and Benetton are among the three finalists in the Retail category of the DSE 2012 Apex Awards. DSE (Digital Signage Expo) is the world's largest international trade show dedicated to digital signage, interactive technology, and Out-of-Home networks and will be held in Las Vegas on March 6-9. The winner will be announced during the award ceremony on March 7.

For more infos:

www.livewindow.it

www.digitalsignageexpo.net

bliverot@benetton.it

 


FABRICA at MAISON&OBJET
Jan 16, 2012

Fabrica will be at Maison et Objet from 20th to 24th of January 2012. Please check our most recent work in Bosa, Seletti, Diamantini & Domeniconi and Secondome spaces inside the fair.

Fabrica was also invited to design the windows for the shop of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Rue de Rivoli in Paris.  The museum windows turn into a winter wonderland of beautiful white Nymphenburg porcelain pieces and fluo snow flakes, quietly screaming the sales inside the shop. From birds to teapots, secret stories hide between suspended plates and animals: a mouse tries to eat a plate while a bear is in love with a deer. They are contemporary still lives where one finds the strangely perfect balance between the delicate Bavarian know-how and the inventive graphics from Fabrica’s young graphic designer, Catarina Carreiras.


 
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