Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Milano Design Film Festival: Cinema Anteo - L’Adelaide – Emilio Tremolada



  screenshot – courtesy - MiCue Milano Design – Milano Design Film Festival

Cinema Anteo -  Milano Design Film Festival
L’Adelaide – Emilio Tremolada - documentary

The docu-film L’Adelaide, directed by Emilio Tremolada, tells the story of Driade design brand, founded in 1968 by Enrico Astori, his sister Antonia and his wife Adelaide Acerbi. Adelaide died in 2009. In 2013, the Astori family sold the company to Italian Creation Group, which is still producing and distributing the collections. This documentary honors Adelaide's creativity: she was completely in charge of communications, responsible for the company's graphic design, as well as art director of the catalogues and house organs and organized the unforgettable parties in the company's historic showroom in Via Manzoni, Milan. This documentary is also a story of Driade, since the two are intimately connected. Through many interviews, it chronicles the genesis of some of the iconic projects and successes that defined the studio's history.

L’Adelaide – trailer
Adelaide Acerbi - screenshot – L’Adelaide

  photograph Emilio Tremolada – courtesy MiCue Milano Design – Milano Design Film Festival

design[in]video

L’Adelaide’s director, Emilio Tremolada is a photographer with thirty years’ experience working with companies and publishers in the furniture and design sectors. design[in]video is a cultural project whose goal is to witness and historicize Italian design in all its aspects, and to make it known to the public. The video interviews with the protagonists themselves; artisans, artists, designers, entrepreneurs, tell the story of the products and traditional handicrafts that have become the symbols of Italian creativity and design. 

photographer director - Emilio Tremolada and Adelaide Acerbi
Adelaide Acerbi – sketch layout for catalogue

 
Elena, Elisa Astori, Emilio Tremolada, Enrico Astori
Giuseppe Chigiotti


Photograph Tom Vack – courtesy MiCue Milano Design – Milano Design Film Festival

Toyo Ito - Uki Suki – chairs – Driade


Antonia Astori and Rudy Dordoni


Marina Prada

Photograph Emilio Tremolada– courtesy MiCue Milano Design – Milano Design Film Festival

L’Adelaide

The  documentary also focuses on some products that are icons of Driade: the Duecavalli, the projects by Enzo Mari and Nanda Vigo, the Oikos, the Follies collections, the projects by Philippe Starck and Borek Sipek and the many other designers who collaborated giving quality and identity to the Driade brand.
  
Enzo Mari – Frate – table – Driade

 
Ennio and Giorgia Brion



Antonio Citterio Maria Castelli and Terry Dwan


Francesca De Ponti

Photograph Tom Vack – courtesy MiCue Milano Design – Milano Design Film Festival

Philippe Starck - Lord Yo – chair - Driade 


Borek Sipek, Philippe Starck and Ron Arad
Nally Bellati - photograph - Screenshot

 Photograph Leo Torri– courtesy MiCue Milano Design – Milano Design Film Festival

Borek Sipek – Follies – Driade

 
 L’Adeliade
 
L’Adeliade tells the history of Driade which is intertwined with the story of Adelaide Acerbi and is built on the testimonies of: Enrico and Antonia Astori, Alessandro Mendini, Paolo Lomazzi, Isa Tutino, Giuseppe Chigiotti, Nanda Vigo, Laura Salvati, Flavio Albanese, Vanni Pasca, Fulvio Irace, Rodolfo Dordoni, Marirosa Toscani Dance, Italo Lupi, Gordon Guillaumier and Tom Vack.

Flavio Albanese and Adelaide Acerbi
Nally Bellati - photograph - screenshot


Paolo Lomazzi

 
Courtesy Emilio Tremolada

Dan Friedman – Bagatelle – folding screen – Driade


 
Adelaide Acerbi and Nanda Vigo
Nally Bellati - photograph - Screenshot


Nanda Vigo

 
Isa Tutino


 
Franco Raggi and Micaela Sessa


  photo EmilioTremolada - courtesy MiCue Milano Design – Milano Design Film Festival

Borek Sipek – Liba – chair – Driade


Tom Vack and Gordon Guillaumier

  Courtesy Emilio Tremolada

L’Adelaide  
photo credits - screenshot








 



Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Venice: Palazzo Loredan – Idols – The Power of Images – Exhibition

 
Palazzo Loredan
Idols – The Power of Images

At Palazzo Loredan, Anne Caudet, emeritus of the department of Oriental Antiques of the Louvre in Paris, curates the beautiful exhibition, Idols - The Power of Images, until January 20. Idols takes its name from the Greek eidolon, or image and invites the visitor to embark on an aesthetic journey across time and space, to discover how artists who lived and worked around 4000–2000 BC created three-dimensional images of the human body. The vast geographic area extends from West to East, from the Iberic peninsula to the Indus Valley, from the gates of the Atlantic to the confines of the Far East. A tribute to the late Giancarlo Ligabue, whose multicultural interests are reflected in the exhibition, the journey reveals a surprising number of common traits, shared by distant people and regions, and compare local variants.
https://www.fondazioneligabue.it/en/mostre/idoli_7.html
 
Head from the figure of a lying woman
Late Spedos -
Cyclades 
Early cycladic II - 2600-2400 BC
Late Spedos type
Late Spedos  - Early cycladic II - 2600-2400 BC


photograph and copyright manfredi bellati
 
Standing Oxus princess
Eastern Iran, central Asia - Oxus civilization - 2200–1800 BC


  
Standing steatopygous figure
Southwestern Arabia - IV millennium BC




Geometric Female figure
Sardinia, Turriga (Senorbì) - Early Bronze Age




Eye idol figurine, rectangular body, long neck
 Western Asia  - 
3300-3000 BC

Eye idol figurine, concave body

Western Asia - 
3300-3000 a.C.

photograph and copyright manfredi bellati


 “Venere Ligabue”
Eastern Iran, Central AsiaOxus
civilization - circa 22001800 BC



Cycladic Harp Player
Thera (Santorini) - 
Early Cycladic II - 2600-2400 BC

 photograph and copyright manfredi bellati


Face from a composite statue
Southern Mesopotamia, Sumer

Early dynastic period II - circa 2500 BC
Face from a composite statue
Southern Mesopotamia -
Early dynastic period II - ca. 2500 BC


“Scarface” in a black kilt
Eastern Iran, Central Asia - 
Oxus civilization
 2200-1800 BC circa



Standing female figure
Indus Valley Civilization, Balochistan Mehrgarh -
style VII - circa 2700–2500 BC



“Red Polished” plank figure
Cyprus, Bellapais–Vounos
- Early bronze age III
2100–2000 BC
Two-necks “Red Polished” plank figure
 
Cyprus, Deneia, unknown archeological context
Middle Bronze age I - 2000–1850 BC
“Red Polished” plank figure

Cyprus -Early bronze age III - 2100–2000 a.C.



photograph and copyright manfredi bellati

Standing steatopygous figure
Southwestern Arabia
- IV millennium BC