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march 20, 2019 - Alcantara

DE CODING - Alcantara in the Tapestry Rooms


curated by Domitilla Dardi and Angela Rui 

CONSTANCE GUISSET, QU LEI LEI, SABINE MARCELIS and SPACE POPULAR

from 4 April to 12 May 2019

Tapestry Rooms

Royal Palace, Milan

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De Coding. Alcantara in the Tapestry Rooms is an exhibition promoted and produced by the MUNICIPALITY OF MILAN – Culture Office,by Palazzo Reale and by Alcantara S.p.A, designed especially for the Tapestry Rooms of the Royal Palace, open to the public free of charge from Thursday 4 Aprilto Sunday 12 May 2019.

The exhibition, curated by Domitilla Dardi and Angela Rui, confirms Alcantara’s ongoing interest in the most advanced forms of contemporary creativity: De Coding in fact marks a new phase in a cycle of shows which has explored the qualities of Alcantara® as a material for art and #design since 2015, transforming various spaces inside Milan’s Royal Palace into gateways to new exhibition proposals, ones unchartered in terms of both their contents and means of fruition.

With this project, the Company that produces and commercialises #alcantara throughout the world continues in its original form of research and development, opening up once more to both well-established as well as up-and-coming creatives, this time ones largely active in the field of #design, working with them on entirely original pieces.

 As the curators Domitilla Dardi and Angela Rui explain, the tapestries displayed in the rooms where the exhibition is staged narrate episodes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, i.e. moments in which the eternal development and mutation of gods, men and things is highlighted. De Coding illustrates the de-codification process, meant as the transformation of a given system of signs on the basis of the mutation of the medium. The episodes depicted in the tapestries are re-narrated through the material vector of #alcantara, capable of enhancing the incisiveness of the message, allowing scope for research that makes use of a range of expressive languages.

In this exhibition, the four international creatives operating in the fields of #design and the visual arts have drawn inspiration from the specificities of a single medium, studying #alcantara in great detail, in all its forms and potential.

The participants, Constance Guisset, Qu Lei Lei, Sabine Marcelis and Space Popular,were called upon to come up with site-specific works, dialoguing with the exhibition rooms and reinterpreting the central theme of the tapestries they house, giving rise to an organic display, one designed to provide an experientialitinerary in which all four installations become playful mechanisms that encourage interaction on the part of the public.

Visitors are in fact invited to take part in a form of active fruition that entails new associations of thought and physical interaction with #alcantara, an excellent medium for artistic research revolving around the correlation between tactile and visual experiences. At the end of the exhibition itinerary, visitors may follow up on their interaction with the exhibition by producing their own personal recording of the event.

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