I have read, listened, written, drawn, painted, photographed, visited… Everything can be more interesting if you remain curious, if you do not lose the desire to learn and experiment. I pause to observe the contrasts of colors, the different points of view of a shot, the sound of synonyms with which the same thing can be described, the harmony of a painting. A note can also be color, poetry is also melody, an image can scream more than one word. The expression: that's all... it's all here. (Editorial Director - Art Director)
To talk about myself I would use the English concept of Language Enthusiast, with its bad translation into Italian. Years of study, travel and authentic and pulsating passion for what lies beyond the border converge in this expression. I have an indiscriminate interest in any culture and any person with a story to tell. I remain with difficulty compressed in my dimension, I feel the continuous need to push myself further. I can't stand the innuendo, the half sentences and the boredom of waiting rooms. Certainly communicative, analytical, I split reality into a thousand pieces and then reassemble it. I think and write in 4 languages, which I love all of them, because inside they sing me a beautiful song. (Editor - Translator).
What unites Piacentini's Architecture with Greenaway's Cinema, Munari's Design with Tiepolo's painting and Kandiskij's studies? What unites the election posters with the paper tickets we used for the tram? For visual culture, the challenge of the third millennium lies in seeing the red thread that binds each of its branches to tell the image and aesthetics. I would like to do it through a passion that comes from the tradition of classic cinema. After all, what is the history of Design if not the cerebral attempt to give a soul to matter, to plagiarize the form according to its most hidden meaning and all to be revealed? (Editor - Reporter)
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Cyclically, “alternative” art comes back into fashion, tending, in the here and now, to enhance murals, walls covered with pictorial canvases and more, installations for events and demonstrations, and in general the use of a design that goes in a creative direction that is not only figurative but also abstract and that therefore does not seek at all costs to give a representation of reality as we see it with our eyes but, sometimes, also as we “feel” it.
Metal-morphosis is a collection by Planium that expresses this trend because through the oxidation of metal - copper, brass, steel - it manages to conceive real slabs that recall the art of the early twentieth century: cubism, liberty, futurism and in general the chromatic styles that converge in the period of the late Belle Époque and later in the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century.
The plates of the Mavi and Mavi Calypso collections - both part of Metal-morhopsis - obtained from Copper are heterogeneous and bear witness to the most disparate contexts: colors that remind us very closely of another type of scenario that Copper Oxidation sensitively brings to the fore: the oceans with their dazzling, somewhat mystical seabeds and geographical maps that also highlight the emerged lands, all reinforced by the contrast that specifically refers to this imagery: the copper and blue tones. The function of these plates is precisely decorative: we are talking about works of art that are close to the abstract painting of the early twentieth century as we wrote previously and, for part of the use of colors, also to the figurative painting of the late nineteenth century. But the beauty here is that the oxidation is only partially controlled, and therefore there is no rational hand that can "direct" the entire painting!
A third collection, “Thetis”, has recently been added to these two: it is made up of works of art in oxidized brass: here too, each sheet is unique, born from the experimentation of the Planium team that created it. From this metal comes a series of golden tones, green backgrounds, hints of pink, sometimes blue, shades that alternate light and dark. An original furnishing and decoration object, Thétis Petite can be easily hung in any context, in a public or private setting, using the hooking system provided. Among the proposals of this line you can find the series:
-FreeStyle - with aeriform patterns, light as clouds that expand in suspension;
-Deco - articulated in random geometries that constitute the true distinctive feature of the work.
And steel? There are several oxidations of Planium steel, but the one that was conceived more than the others with a purely artistic value is related to the texture of the lunar surface specially created for the Milan Design Week of 2022. This composition was used to pave and cover a gallery in Piazza San Marco in Milan that hosted the oxidized brass and copper artwork WAVE11.
This oxidation involves a truly particular surface, because already in the design idea it is proposed, succeeding, to reproduce the cartography of the moon by exploiting all the chromatic and silvery potential of this material.
