<span style="font-style: italic;">"let's pretend the forms will always reveal our story." <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(feel love)</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> aka </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"the<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> new city dweller</span> is introduced to a life on earth.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Martino Gamper</span></span> tackles the unusual building approaching it in a unique and personal way, conceiving the rooms at the various levels as individual homes owned by as many occupants, a real "condominium", in which <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">the objects are displayed in the spaces as they were portions of houses, in order to create a total living space.</span></span><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6218/6223568922_a4a83d2d21_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6037/6223569000_4418514194_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6037/6223569000_4418514194_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 465px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6174/6223049013_98f9b8bdc8_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6174/6223049013_98f9b8bdc8_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 466px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">"Gamper’s sense of identity is strong, but unique. </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">He understands structures and hierarchies, but does not bow to them."</span><a href="http://www.gampermartino.com/about/"> (here)</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><br />Martino Gamper</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Condominium</span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-style: italic;"><br /><br />September 22 – October 25, 2011</span> : <a href="http://www.franconoero.com/mostra-in-corso/310-martino-gamper-condominium"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Galleria Franco Noero</span></a> is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of the designer Martino Gamper in Torino. Condominium is a unique project expressly conceived for the galleryʼs peculiar spaces and underlines its commitment towards contemporary creative research, overcoming the boundaries between different artistic disciplines. Martino Gamper's path is constantly marked by a great spontaneity that permeates all of his projects. These are rooted in a refined and precise knowledge of materials, processes, shapes and aesthetics that characterize the history of Italian design. After the first apprenticeship at a furniture maker in Merano, his native border town, followed then by studies in sculpture with Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wien, Martino Gamper finally entered the design world under the guidance of one of Memphis groupʼs founders, Matteo Thun. In 1997 he moved to London where he joined the Royal College of Art studying with Ron Arad, and there he later taught from 2004 to 2010.<br /><br />Gamper tackles the unusual building approaching it in a unique and personal way, conceiving the rooms at the various levels as individual homes owned by as many occupants, a real "condominium", in which the objects are displayed in the spaces as they were portions of houses, in order to create a total living space.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The designer moved to Torino for a month to work on found pieces of furniture (cupboards, tables, nightables, chairs, lamps) which make reference to the middle class style interiors from the Fifties to the Seventies.</span></span> Gamper builds unique pieces by hybridating the found pieces of furniture, cutting and assembling their parts in new forms, repositioning part of their creative and material history in a project fully orchestrated by him.<br /><br />Martino Gamperʼs creative process is summarised in the words by Emily King (2009): <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">ʻMartino Gamper makes funny shaped furniture. Amalgams of odd angles, strange protuberances, unlikely surfaces and idiosyncratic features, his pieces perch uncertainly, as if waiting politely for an introduction to life on earthʼ.<br /><br /><br /></span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6172/6223048949_e89839ae95_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6172/6223048949_e89839ae95_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 1028px;" /></a><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6218/6223568922_a4a83d2d21_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6218/6223568922_a4a83d2d21_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 968px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:100%;" ><span>"Martino Gamper</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">'s path is constantly marked by a great spontaneity that permeates all of his projects. These are rooted in a refined and</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">precise knowledge of materials, processes, shapes and aesthetics</span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"> that characterize the history of Italian design.</span></span>"<br /><br /><a href="http://www.franconoero.com/"> </a><br /><a href="http://www.franconoero.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Galleria Franco Noero.</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.gampermartino.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">Martino Gamper's site here.</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">---------------------</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">---------------------------</span>

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