Giustini / Stagetti presents a new project by Campana Brothers plus a selection of unpublished studies and drawings by Fernando Campana.These drawings are not simply presented as complementary material to the development of their furnishings, but also as a body of autonomous works: singular examples of an intimate and obscure language attracted by atavic movements and amorphous structures. This new project, therefore, also intends to investigate the creative process of the two designers, each of whom is motivated by personal insight and research, with the objective of transforming individual experience into a shared vision from which to recurrently draw inspiration in diverse ways, so as to bring into being harmonious yet original compositions of great expressive force – peculiarities that have assured to the Campanas international acclaim. Fernando and Humberto are very different people who grew apart only to come together again, and find within each other, that which the other lacked. Their experiences, although opposite, have revealed themselves to be complimentary and they have flowed into a common poetry which is continually fuelled by fantasy, playfulness and the visionary as well as the mundane. At the basis of theCampana’s work is a desire to create bonds between differing codes: uniting thought and matter, the two - and the three-dimensional, imagination and reality – a philosophy that is simultaneously naïve and profound. Their process appears to come into being from the diverse mixture of cultures, language and architecture that coexist in the city of Sao Paulo. Fernando explains: “Sao Paolo is a cubist city, a city full of overlapping stories that become entangled and it is in my efforts to abstract the urban landscape and its three-dimensional sequences that my designs come into being. The inspiration” Fernando continues: “may be a dream by night, or perhaps a nightmare, that can disappear in an instant like a glance, like the light of the sun on a building. I draw with total freedom, quickly, so as to loose nothing I have imagined, then contact with materials dictates what we must do. ”The ‘Bacteria’ and ‘Morbido’ collections take their queue from this process, poised on the cusp of the oneiric and the hypnotic, emphasizing the geometrical and volumetric virtuosity of the drawings. While, retaining some of the main characteristics of the poetics of the Campanas (the spiral, the continuous line, the interweaving, the metamorphosis), these latest works inaugurate a new phase of investigation aimed at deepening the hypnotic power of a repeated gesture and optical illusionism of a graphic sign, developed both on two-dimensional surfaces and on three-dimensional volumes. A geometric plant, based on a dry and instinctive mark operated on flat two-dimensional surfaces characterizes, for example, both the 'Bacteria' rug, created in collaboration with Nodus (Milan) - made in hand-knotted wool and banano silk - and the ‘Bacteria’ lamps, the new series of lighting fixtures made in perforated brass sheets. On the other hand, rounded, welcoming and somehow zoomorphic geometries characterize the 'Abbraccio' armchair from the ‘Morbido’ collection (which translates into morbid in English and Portuguese). Here, the assembly and overlapping of heterogeneous elements - recurring in the production and aesthetics of the Campana brothers - takes on a new, extremely essential and abstract aspect, to enhance the idea of a wraparound object and to celebrate the primitive value of the sense of touch.