Martino Gamper Sample Sale
Thursday 15th November 11am – 8pm
St Hilda’s East Community Centre
18 Club Row E2 7EY London
with Ally Capellino,Tracey Neuls, Jo Gordon & Squat
Entry Fee of £2 goes to The Spitalfields Crypt Trust
& St Hilda’s Community Centre. Cash Sales Only.
Bench Years
Victoria & Albert Museum John Madejski Gardens, London
14 - 23 September 2012
Established & Sons has collaborated with the London Design Festival to create a series of one-off benches to mark 10 years of the festival. The Infinity bench by Martino Gamper has been produced with material supplied by American Hardwood Export Council; thermally modified American red oak,
soft maple, ash, yellow birch and tulipwood.
Watch a short film about the project here
www.establishedandsons.com
www.americanhardwood.org
Photography ©Petr Krejci
mono.kultur #32
Martino Gamper 'All Channels Personal'
With mono.kultur, Martino Gamper talked about his idea of fun, why a chair is the ultimate challenge and what design has in common with cooking.
Visually, the issue is bursting with references and ideas, reclaiming image material from left and right, while unveiling the structure of a book with three booklets of different sizes all lovingly assembled into one – and manually at that, which makes for some rough edges or rather what we like to call extra personality.
Taken from the press release.
Interview by Emily King & Kai von Rabenau / Works by Martino Gamper / Design by Kai von Rabenau
Summer 2012 / English / 15 x 20 cm / 56 Pages
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METAMORPHOSIS_Behind, After or Beyond
22 June - 09 Sept 2012
HangerBicocca
via Chiese 2, Milano, It
Moroso celebrates its first 60 years in business with two exhibition projects focusing on its iconic products, which have helped write the history of international design.
The first exhibition, METAMORPHOSIS_Behind, After or Beyond, is by the designer Martino Gamper, winner of the 1st Moroso Award for Contemporary Art. Established in collaboration with the Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea of Monfalcone in 2011.
Martino Gamper’s installation will be shown alongside Backstage, an exhibition curated by Patrizia Moroso with Marco Viola.
Taken from the press release.
www.hangarbicocca.org www.moroso.it
Synesthesia
29 Jun - 31 Aug 2012
M+B Gallery
612 North Almont Drive
Los Angeles, Us
M+B is pleased to announce SYNESTHESIA, a group exhibition curated by Daniele Balice, co-founder of the Paris gallery BaliceHertling, and Jay Ezra Nayssan.
Participating artists include Michael Anastassiades, Anonymous, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Isabelle Cornaro, Jacopo da Valenza, Lucy Dodd, Thomas Dozol, Paul Dupré-Lafon for Hermès, Terje Ekstrom, Piero Fornasetti, Guido Gambone, Martino Gamper, Eileen Gray, Hadrien Jacquelet, Lisa Jo, Alex Katz, Allison Katz, Antonio Lopez, Stewart MacDougall, Alexander May, MissoniHome, Carlo Mollino, Paul P., Ico Parisi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Charlotte Perriand, Gaetano Pesce, Pablo Picasso, Gio Ponti, ROLU and Yves Saint Laurent.
Taken from the press release.
www.mbart.com
Photography ©Jeff McLane
Glow Rod Tanning With...
February 22 – March 31, 2012
Giò Marconi / COMCORRöder Pop Up Store, Milan, It
Glow Rod Tanning with .../ COMCORRÖDER
Kerstin Brätsch with Martino Gamper
Adele Röder with Lydia Rodrigues
with
Simultanious Studios
Lucas Knipscher / DAS INSTITUT
www.giomarconi.com
PostMundus Chair
2012
Launched at Milano Salone, It by Nilufar Unlimited
The PostMundus Chair is Martino Gampers reinterpretion of the classic Thonet bentwood chair no. 16.
He visited the Mundus factory in Croatia to research the techniques used on classic bentwood chairs still in production and returned to his London studio with about 100 elements. These included seats, legs, arms and back rests, which he then reworked it into a new bentwood chair: PostMundus.
Taken from the press release.
www.unlimited.nilufar.com
Off-Cut Console
2011
Laminate, black mdf
130 x 52 x 81cm
Welcome Desk
2011
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneve, Ch
www.centre.ch
Photography ©David Gagnebin-de Bons
Off-Cut Drawers
2011
Laminate, black mdf
Museion Passage
2012
Museion, Bolzano, It
Museion’s 2012 season opens with a new look for the ground floor: thanks to the Museion Passage project by the designer Martino Gamper (Italy, 1971), this area now fulfills the role of 'covered square', offering a physical meeting place also open to external events.
On occasion of the opening of Museion Passage, there will be a panel discussion and poster project devoted to the theme 'The New Public'. These initiatives are part of a programme of related events surrounding the exhibition of the same name curated by Rein Wolfs, Museion’s guest curator for 2012. The posters have been designed by H I T Berlin, Lupo&Burtscher Bolzano, Metahaven Amsterdam and NORM Zürich. The discussion chaired by Rein Wolfs will feature Martino Gamper, Angelika Burtscher (Lupo&Burtscher), Daniel van der Velden (Metahaven) and Emanuela De Cecco (Libera Università di Bolzano).
Taken from the press release.
www.museion.it
Photography ©Othmar Seehauser
Off White - Off Cut Desks
2011
Various Off-Cut desks
Private commission
Le Sentiment des Choses
15 Dec 2011 – 26 Feb 2012
Le Plateau, Paris, Fr
Lenka Clayton and Michael Crowe, Isabelle Cornaro, Julien Crépieux, Robert Filliou, Martino Gamper, Ryan Gander, Mark Geffriaud, Ray Johnson, Chitti Kasemkitvatana, Bruno Munari, The Play, Bruno Persat, Pratchaya Phinthong, Chloé Quenum, Clément Rodzielski, Fred Sandback, Mieko Shiomi. Curated by Elodie Royer and Yoann Gourmel
As the first part of a series of exhibitions devised by Elodie Royer and Yoann Gourmel, guest curators for the 2011-2012 season, the group show The Feeling of Things takes as its point of departure the work and spirit of the inventor, artist, designer, writer, illustrator, graphic designer and teacher, Bruno Munari, “a Peter Pan with the calibre of a Leonardo”, to borrow Pierre Restany’s words.
By shifting and developing, in everyday life, his continuous research into the circulation and instability of forms, signs, colors, light, words, and images, he was never ceased to imagination and method, and logical and intuitive inventiveness, within an approach that focused on the essentialness of things. From the early Futurist paintings of the 1930s to his unreadable books, from his useless machines to his talking forks, from his original xerographies to the high-tension structures of the 1990s, Munari played all his life with categories and disciplines – using conspicuously limited means – in an attempt to blend them into a single radical and generous art praxis, urging everyone to develop their own curiosity and creativity.
Taken from the press release.
www.fracidf-leplateau.com
Photography ©Martin Argyroglo
Martino & Friends Christmas Totem
2 Dec 2011 – 31 Jan 2012
Phillips de Pury & Company London Pop-Up Shop, Uk
With works by Dent-De-Leone, Jochem Faudet, Martino Gamper, Gemma Holt, Will Shannon, Harry Thaler, Francis Upritchard, Rob Upritchard
London based designer Martino Gamper has curated a special Martino and Friends section especially for the Phillips de Pury Pop-up Shop. Gamper has made a bespoke shelving unit to display his selection. Highlights from the Martino and Friends section include Francis Upritchard’s hand painted Christmas cards and wrapping paper, jewellery from Gemma Holt and Rob Upritchard, and a set of drinking glass with carafe from Martino Gamper.
Taken from the press release.
www.phillipsdepury.com
