Martino’s Shop
Gamper Mollino Chair No.01 & No.02 2008 Gamper Mollino Chair No.01 2008 Gamper Mollino Chair No.05 2008 Gamper Mollino Chair No.17 & Lamp No.04 2008 Gamper Mollino Chair No.17 2008 Gamper Mollino Chair No.20 & Stool No.08 2008 Gamper Mollino Table No.14 2008 Gamper Mollino Stool No.07 2008 Gamper Mollino Chair No.12 2008 Gamper Mollino Chair No.16 2008 Gamper Mollino Chair No.11 2008 Gamper Mollino Chair No.06 2008 Gamper Mollino Table No.15 2008 Gamper Mollino Table No.15 2008 Gamper Mollino Chair No.19 2008 Gamper Mollino Lamp No.03 2008 Gamper Mollino Chair No.10 2008 Gamper Mollino Chair No.18 2008 Gamper Mollino Chair No.09 2008 Gamper Mollino Chair No.13 2008 Exhibition View Exhibition View
Collective No. 1-5 2008 Site specific arrangement comprising various new and re-appropriated drawers and shelvings, black MDF, walnut veneer, ash veneer, zirm wood veneer, engraved aluminium labels. Various sizes Collective No. 1-5 2008 Site specific arrangement comprising various new and re-appropriated drawers and shelvings, black MDF, walnut veneer, ash veneer, zirm wood veneer, engraved aluminium labels. Various sizes Collective No. 1-5 2008 Site specific arrangement comprising various new and re-appropriated drawers and shelvings, black MDF, walnut veneer, ash veneer, zirm wood veneer, engraved aluminium labels. Various sizes Collective No. 1-5 2008 Site specific arrangement comprising various new and re-appropriated drawers and shelvings, black MDF, walnut veneer, ash veneer, zirm wood veneer, engraved aluminium labels. Various sizes Collective No. 1-5 2008 Site specific arrangement comprising various new and re-appropriated drawers and shelvings, black MDF, walnut veneer, ash veneer, zirm wood veneer, engraved aluminium labels. Various sizes
Seating and sitting chairs 2008 Seating and sitting chairs 2008 Seating and Sitting chair #1 2008 Bentwood cane chair, larch wood, walnut, oak 40 x 50 x 82cm Seating and Sitting chair #2 2008 No.18 Bentwood cane chair, larch wood, walnut, oak 49 x 48 x 77cm Seating and Sitting chair #3 2008 No.14 Bentwood cane chair, larch wood, walnut, oak 48 x 45 x 77cm Outdoor Audio Benches 2008 Various Dimensions Outdoor Audio Benches 2008 Various Dimensions Outdoor Audio Benches 2008 Various Dimensions Audio benches 2008 Pine, oak, walnut 300 x 70cm Audio benches 2008 Pine, oak, walnut 300 x 70cm Audio Benches 2008 Audio Benches 2008 Seating and sitting chairs 2008 Seating and sitting chairs 2008
Back of the Chairs 2008 48 x 45 x 68 cm Bent wood furniture elements Back of the Chairs 2008 Chair of the Rings 2008 Mundus factory visit in Croatia 2008 Mundus factory visit in Croatia 2008 Mundus factory visit in Croatia 2008 Mundus factory visit in Croatia 2008 Mundus factory visit in Croatia 2008 Mundus factory visit in Croatia 2008 Mundus factory visit in Croatia 2008 Mundus factory visit in Croatia 2008 Mundus factory visit in Croatia 2008 Mundus factory visit in Croatia 2008 Mundus factory visit in Croatia 2008
Exhibition View Exhibition View Exhibition View Exhibition View Exhibition View Exhibition View
Arnold with Dodo 2008 Arnold Circus Stool and found wooden elements Exhibition View Exhibition View Exhibition View Arnold with Dodo 2008 Arnold Circus Stool and found wooden elements
Diego Dolcini, Milano Diego Dolcini, Milano Diego Dolcini, Milano
A Leg and an Arm Chair 2008 Wendy Chair 2008 Artist's Proof 2008 Chicago Chair Two 2008 Receiving Lectern 2008 Receiving Lectern 2008 Receiving Auction 2008 Receiving Auction 2008 Receiving Auction 2008 Receiving Auction 2008 Receiving Auction 2008 Receiving Workshop 2008 Receiving Workshop 2008 Receiving Workshop 2008 Receiving Workshop 2008 Receiving Workshop 2008
Total Trattoria at The Aram Gallery Total Trattoria at The Aram Gallery Kitchen Combo Chairs 2008 Assorted solid wood pieces Aqua Minerale 2008 Mouth-blown glass. By designing the glass jug in a generic water bottle shape, a normally disposable object becomes non-disposable. Auge fur Auge 2008 Hand etched glasses Hand etched at Lobmeyer, Vienna. Aqua Naturale 2008 Mouth blown glass 42 Flavours 2008 Beermats Silk screen, Die cut board Trouble 2008 Embroidered South Tyrolean farmers’ apron Embroidery and cotton apron Relay 2008 Cutlery cluster The individual pieces are threaded on a bracelet like holder ready to be passed around like an over-sized key ring. The diners pass the cutlery ring around. Found cutlery Nuts 2008 These individual candleholders of different circumferences can be made into a cluster Found objects Taste Buds 2008 The embossed invitation to the Total Trattoria doubles up as placemat. At the Trattoria, placemats have been the calling card of a making process beyond the preparation of the food and were often used as the transaction ticket when the Trattoria took place in a location without a food licence. The placemat artwork was purchased and the food was served after the formal transaction although the artwork was only considered complete once it had acquired the evidence of its use. Letterpress paper
Total Trattoria Dinner Total Trattoria Dinner Total Trattoria Dinner Martino & Alex making soba noodles Fresh produce Raw squid in soy sauce dressing Martino and Kasja serving the half-in-half soup Martino sharpening his knife Arianne making the goats cheese and horseradish toasts The fresh squid photographed next to the days newspaper
Off-Cut Table 2008, 13 pieces, various sizes Off-Cut Table 2008, 13 pieces, various sizes Off-Cut Table 2008, 13 pieces, various sizes Off-Cut Table 2008, 13 pieces, various sizes Off-Cut Table 2008, 13 pieces, various sizes Off-Cut Table 2008, 13 pieces, various sizes Off-Cut Table 2008, 13 pieces, various sizes Off-Cut Table 2008, 13 pieces, various sizes Off-Cut Table 2008, 13 pieces, various sizes Off-Cut Table 2008, 13 pieces, various sizes Off-Cut Table 2008, 13 pieces, various sizes Off-Cut Table 2008, 13 pieces, various sizes Off-Cut Table 2008, 13 pieces, various sizes Off-Cut Table 2008, 13 pieces, various sizes Off-Cut Table 2008, 13 pieces, various sizes Off-Cut Table 2008, 13 pieces, various sizes Off-Cut Table 2008, 13 pieces, various sizes
Chest of Drawers 2007 A little bit Lazy table 2007 Lazy Table 2007 165 x 73cm, Unique example Large Dining Table 2008 Trumeau 2007 80 x 45 x 205cm, Unique example Two Legged Console 2007 130 x 45 x 150cm, Unique Example Table 2007 176 x 72cm, Unique example Table 2007 176 x 72cm, Unique example Console 2007 85 x 35 x 51cm, Unique example Two Stools and a Low Table 2007 Stool 31 x 31 x 60cm, Table 45 x 45 x 25cm, Unique example Mirror 2007 76 x 67 x 5cm, Unique example Desk 2007 120 x 70 x 76cm, Unique example Chair 2007 65 x 55 X 94cm, Unique example Coffee Table 2007 30 x 30 x 37cm, Unique example Coffee Table 2007 30 x 30 x 37cm, Unique example Coffee Table 2007 92 x 90 x 31cm, Unique example Floor Lamp 2007 83 x 30 x H max 167cm, Unique example Mirror 2007 80 x 128 x 68cm, Unique example Chair 2007 65 x 70 x 89cm, Unique example Console 2007 130 x 47 x 81cm, Unique example Mirror 2007 76 x 67 x 5cm, Unique example
Together Bookcase 2007, Veneered plywood edged with polished walnut, cherry, cedar and elm. Lacquered black and white MDF. Limited series of 12 examples Together Bookcase 2007, Veneered plywood edged with polished walnut, cherry, cedar and elm. Lacquered black and white MDF. Limited series of 12 examples
Arnold Circus Chair 2007, Wooden frame, leather cover 69 x 57 x H 93cm, Limited series of 15 examples Arnold Circus Chair 2007, Wooden frame, leather cover 69 x 57 x H 93cm, Limited series of 15 examples
Hexagone Table 2007, Layered polar frame, laminated in 3 colours, waxed ebony edge. Limited series of 9 examples. 320 x 90 x H 74cm Hexagone Table 2007, Layered polar frame, laminated in 3 colours, waxed ebony edge. Limited series of 9 examples. 320 x 90 x H 74cm Hexagone Table 2007, Layered polar frame, laminated in 3 colours, waxed ebony edge. Limited series of 9 examples. 320 x 90 x H 74cm
Total Trattoria Book, Published 2008 by Dent-De-Leone Total Trattoria Book, Published 2008 by Dent-De-Leone Combo Chair 2008 25 chairs, assorted solid wood pieces, various dimensions Combo Chair 2008 25 chairs, assorted solid wood pieces, various dimensions Combo Chair 2008 25 chairs, assorted solid wood pieces, various dimensions Combo Chair 2008 25 chairs, assorted solid wood pieces, various dimensions Combo Chair 2008 25 chairs, assorted solid wood pieces, various dimensions Combo Chair 2008 25 chairs, assorted solid wood pieces, various dimensions Combo Chair 2008 25 chairs, assorted solid wood pieces, various dimensions Combo Chair 2008 25 chairs, assorted solid wood pieces, various dimensions Combo Chair 2008 25 chairs, assorted solid wood pieces, various dimensions Combo Chair 2008 25 chairs, assorted solid wood pieces, various dimensions Combo Chair 2008 25 chairs, assorted solid wood pieces, various dimensions Combo Chair 2008 25 chairs, assorted solid wood pieces, various dimensions

Martino with Carlo Mollino

Oct 2008
Salon 94 at Frieze Art Fair, London, Uk

Made from reclaimed Carlo Mollino chairs from the Lutrario Ballroom in Turin, Italy.

www.salon94.com

Photography ©Angus Mill












































Undiszipliniert/ Undisciplined

Sep 11 – Oct 11, 2008
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Au

Artists: Werner Feiersinger, Andreas Fogarasi, Martino Gamper, Krüger + Pardeller, Gregor Neuerer, PAUHOF + Walter Niedermayr , Nicole Six & Paul Petritsch
Concept: Doris Krüger and Walter Pardeller

In connection with the Vienna Design Week, organisation of a common symposium with Neigungsgruppe Design, University of Applied Arts Vienna and Kiesler Stiftung Wien

The project focuses on intersection points and addresses the themes of space and spatial design in the light of an expanded and dynamic understanding of space. Above all, the borderline between these disciplines is of interest. In all three of these fields, there are questions about the treatment of space, the relationship between functionality and aesthetics, the usability and the usage, the marketing strategies. However, despite the apparent similarities between these disciplines, they are clearly different in their specific manifestations and answers to such questions.

In the context of an interdisiciplinary project, the common ground will be first be defined to enable concrete reactions from each discipline on the others’ work fields in a subsequent step. The exhibition will ultimately present works developed in the preparation phase as well as the outcome of the experiment. The result will be models, sketches, films, photography, sculptural objects or prototypes and they will all, even simply due to their authorship and development process, oscillate between the disciplines. Taken from the press release.

www.wuk.at










Manifesta 7

Jul 19 – Nov 02 2008
Fortezza/ Franzensfeste, It

Situated on one of Europe’s most important travel routes, between Bolzano/Bozen and the Brenner pass, the fortress Fortezza/Franzensfeste will serve as one of Manifesta 7’s venues. It was built in the 1830s by the Habsburgian Empire in order to defend the north/south passage through the Dolomite mountain region from two sides. Shaped and ruled by changing military scenarios, which mostly remained imaginary, since the fortress has never witnessed battle, the site itself constitutes the basis for formulating the artistic context of the exhibition by Manifesta 7.

The project entitled Scenarios aims to transform the spectacular backdrop of Fortezza/Franzensfeste into a scripted space with voice recordings, text, light and landscape in order to alter our idea of how imaginary scenarios shape our understanding of past and future, circumstance and possibility. Scenarios will be an ‘immaterial’ exhibition, that attempts to shift the site of the exhibition to the imagination of the listening visitor. Writers from all over the world contribute texts to Scenarios, especially developed for this context. These texts reflect the processes of scenario production and imaginative possibility itself. As voice recordings, the texts are individually installed as sound works in the repetitive interior spaces of the fortress, in an architectural setting characterised by the absence of its historical users and the scenarios they were once part of.

Scenarios
Dramaturgy by Ant Hampton, Audio Design by Hannes Hoelzl, Furniture Design by Martino Gamper

Contributors
Shahid Amin, Hélène Binet, Brave New Alps, Adriana Cavarero, Mladen Dolar, Harun Farocki, Karø Goldt, Larry Gottheim, Renée Green, Timo Kahlen, Karl Kels, Thomas Meinecke, Glen Neath, Margareth Obexer, Philippe Rahm, Arundhati Roy, Saskia Sassen, Michael Snow, Saadi Yousef

www.manifesta7.it

Photography ©Wolfgang Träger/ Nilufar Gallery






























Conran Inspirations

Sep 2008
The Conran Shop, London, Uk

In September 2008 the Conran Shop will premiere its specially commissioned Inspirations Collection. As an homage to Terence Conran the shop commissioned a number of designers from the UK, France, Germany, Mexico, South Africa and Italy to create a line of products inspired by Conran himself.

Rooted in the themes of Stafford Cliff’s new book ‘Inspirations’, which looks at the ideas and pieces which have inspired Terence Conran throughout his illustrious career, the collection will comprise a diverse range of objects from designers including Martino Gamper, Michael Marriott and Bill Amberg.

Gamper was invited by Polly Dickens, creative director of the Conran Shop, to reinterpret the classic Thonet bentwood chair for the retailers Inspirations show, launched during the London Design Festival. He visited the Mundus factory in Croatia (which has been supplying Conran with Thonet chairs for decades) and came back to his London studio with about 100 elements including seats, legs, arms and back rests, which he then arranged into new chairs. Taken from the press release.

www.conranshop.co.uk

Photography at Mundus, Croatia ©Anne Heslop































A Recent History of Writing and Drawing

July 9th – August 31st 2008
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Uk

An exhibition by Jürg Lehni and Alex Rich
Furniture by Martino Gamper

'A Recent History of Writing and Drawing' is an interactive exhibition which explores the creative potential of graphic technologies. Conceived by designers Jürg Lehni and Alex Rich, the exhibition sees the ICA’s lower gallery transformed into a workspace where a number of machines, developed to enable writing and drawing, exist. Together these machines present a range of techniques from chalk on board, to holes punched in paper and images projected on screen.

The show on a whole consists of four individual exhibits including, ‘Dots on Demand’, a workstation with a very simple graphic interface which invites visitors to type in their own sentences and then feed a sheet of paper of their choice into the cutter and see their sentences cut out. Visitors will be able to take their own poster home as a souvenir, while copies will also be displayed within the gallery. Taken from the press release.

www.ica.org

Photography ©Marcus Leith












The Flight of the Dodo

July – August 2008
Project, Dublin, Ie

Tim Braden (UK), Ryan Gander (UK), Martino Gamper (IT), Sven Johne (DE), Irene Kopelman (AR), Eoin McHugh (IE), Francis Upritchard (NZ), Douglas White (UK)

What we share is curiosity, of the world that exists and that which is to come.
The Flight of the Dodo is an eclectic exhibition made up of various artworks and elements that celebrate adventure, delve into factual myths, plunging in and out of notions of the hybrid, evolution, imaginative escapism, the will to survive and ultimate extinction.

The exhibition includes artists who have an eye on the flipside of life, the next steps in evolution and an interest in the endgame. While we read endlessly of global warming and the future migration which will be necessary to survive, there is much debate and angst about the timeframe for this outcome. Some artists focus on the landscape after the fall while others envisage salvation through science and technology. Some artworks let you escape from rational understanding, while others ground you in disaster archaeology of the 20th Century. Taken from the press release.

www.projectartscentre.ie









Every Shoe Needs A Box

2008
Diego Dolcini Boutique, Milano, It

Not a classic shoe boutique, but rather a site-specific installation, the first Diego Dolcini space in Milan was created by young designer Martino Gamper. In this concept of an interior Gamper removes the boundaries between art, fashion and design, transforming the usual, traditional shoebox, into a recurring symbolic and structural element, at the origin of spectacular accumulations and divisions of the space. Retaken and reproduced in different woods, reinvented and embellished by natural tones and textures, it evokes memories of contexts and contests, of rules and rituals of shoemaking. The shoe is the omnipresent yet invisible leading figure. Taken from the press release.

www.diegodolcini.it






Receiving

14 – 17 May 2008
Wright, Chicago Usa

From the 14th through the 17th of May 2008, Wright welcomed designer, innovator and mastermind Martino Gamper to Chicago. Gamper created a series of unique and functional pieces of furniture for Wright’s auction room utilizing cast-off shipping materials, crates, and discarded furniture and objects found in Wright’s warehouse. Part performance, part workshop, Gamper’s process welcomed experimentation, spontaneity and interaction: Gamper’s on-site studio was open to the public so that visitors could watch while he worked. Taken from the press release.

www.wright20.com

Photography ©Wright and Brian Franczyk
































Total Trattoria

7 Mar – 26 Apr 2008
The Aram Gallery, London, Uk

The Aram Gallery has commissioned London-based designer Martino Gamper to create Total Trattoria – the ultimate expression of his Trattoria al Cappello concept.

Developing further his idea, Total Trattoria, which opened on 7 March 2008, completes the concept and puts it on show to the public for the first time.

Gamper has designed every single element of the dining event ranging from the kitchen and its storage areas to the cutlery and the tables and chairs to the glassware. A series of thirteen individual tables that connect to form one large dining table snakes around the gallery to seat 25 guests. The 25 chairs around the table are all different but are constructed from the same set of component parts, designed by Gamper.

The pieces include the results of many collaborations between Gamper and a wide variety of makers including engraved glasses placed on clusters of leather coasters, blown-glass water jugs and limited edition placemats designed by Gamper’s collaborators in the Trattoria events, Maki Suzuki, Alex Rich and Kajsa Stahl.

The exhibition graphics and communication, also designed by Suzuki, Rich and Stahl, includes a specially designed catalogue. Taken from the press release.

www.thearamgallery.org










Total Trattoria - Dinner Event

5 Mar 2008
The Aram Gallery, London, Uk

The menu included beetroot and celeriac soup served half-in-half in bowls, raw squid in a soy sauce dressing, mackerel served in a ginger broth and rhubarb stewed in homemade beer served with fresh cream.

Photography ©Adrien Bugari and ©Barbara Gamper






















Off-Cut Table

2008
Teak from English school laboratory tops, oak from Scottish church benches, poplar from the London Patent Office.
13 pieces, various sizes

The Off-Cut table is made of 13 individual units, butted against each other to create one large horse-shoe configuration. Although the leg system stays the same each table top is a different shape, size and material; a unique variation that is result of the multi-faceted division of the surface. Three types of timber are merged together to create the surface. Off-Cut reflects the fact that a dining event is only ever complete when the different people around the table share the same experience.




































Gio Ponti Translated by Martino Gamper

2007
Nilufar Gallery, Milan, It

For this occasion, the furnishings designed by Gio Ponti for the Hotel Parco dei Principi of Sorrento will be exhibited together with the unique pieces elaborated by Gamper. The new orientation of the gallery is to commit international and Italian designers to develop limited edition projects conceived exclusively for Nilufar.

In the gallery, Martino Gamper, armed with the tools of his trade, will break, cut, and modify furniture created by Gio Ponti (courtesy of Nilufar). Not an act of destruction in itself, but rather 'an action' to: re-invent, re-think, re-possess the object, and re-create a 'new destiny' for it. Nothing could be further from being relegated to a museum exhibition. The object will be offered an alternative way out, and thereby re-delivered to true life.

'Deconstruction', much more than mere standard practice, is a path to knowledge for Martino. Making contact with the structure of the object is both an intimate and physical gesture for him – the emotional dynamics of relating himself to the essence of the object. The object arouses an emotion that causes a personal re-action in him, which is then elaborated during the performance, as an immediate action on the object, a 'creative process in action' that we can define as 'Action Design'. Taken from the press release.

Gio Ponti furniture courtesy of Nilufar Gallery, Milano.

www.nilufar.com







































































Together Bookcase

2007
Veneered plywood edged with polished walnut, cherry, cedar and elm.
Lacquered black and white MDF.
Limited series of 12 examples.
Nilufar Edition




Arnold Circus Chair

2007
Wooden frame, leather cover.
Limited series of 15 examples.
Nilufar Edition




Hexagone Table

2007
Layered polar frame, laminated in 3 colours, waxed ebony edge.
Limited series of 9 examples.
Nilufar Edition







Combo Chairs

2008
25 chairs, assorted solid wood pieces, various dimensions

The Combo chairs are an experiment in making furniture in a way similar to making food. The ingredients were prepared in advance and the variety is a result of different ways of putting the ingredients together. There are twelve different components in three different types of timber. The design and making process were intertwined and the results were not pre-drawn but methodically improvised during the making. The evolution of the ideas can be seen in the different versions. One of them is more likely to be better than the rest or may suit a specific person more than the others.