Different in origin, education, and generation, Andrea Anastasio and Giacomo Moor have each independently intervened in the two exhibition space, presenting site-specific projects conceived exclusively for the gallery. 

The “Funambolo” collection designed by Giacomo Moor is inspired by the poetic imagery of acrobats who stand out against the horizon, creating pure and essential lines. A turned cylinder, composed by a long wooden arm and a shorter metal one made of the same color, leans on a rod and finds its balance in an unexpected joint, far from its center, in a sort of magical suspension. A led strip is built-in in the wooden part of the rod and can be directed by a simple rotation along its length, the magnetic conduction allows the electrical passage through the contact between the two overlapped arms.

The extreme formal simplicity of the lamp hides a complex investigation to remove the visible technical elements: taking the link between form and function to the extreme results. On view some of the possible variants: a single and a corner suspension, a wall to wall system. A collection of unlimited pieces opened up to as many versions as possible available in three different essences: fossil black oak, rosewood and gray ash, matched, tone on tone, to the respective metallic finishes.

The body of works by Andrea Anastasio, “Un fiore per 12 mesi” (One flower for 12 months) looks with affection to the ruins of modernity with an intention to welcome the unmentionable, the feared, the unexpected, the non-designable into the project; while transforming the incident, what is deeply rooted in our consciences, in a constructive foundation.

The twelve ceramic vases, unique pieces making up the collection, all come from the same shape, a compositional synthesis of the Roman amphora and the Korean moon vase. After firing, each specimen is broken and, subsequently, its fragments are re-assembled in new entireties thanks to the enamel which, upon melting in the firing, takes on a structural role, allowing the parts to bind together firmly. Throught his process, the original shape of the vase opens up to infinite configurations, both in terms of the substancial and functional. Ceramics, more than other materials, is for Anastasio the page on which for centuries the great narrative of human existence - with its passions, its glories and its poetic fragility - is written, and in the fragments of this long and vulnerable history it is possible to imagine other experiences, other horizons, possible utopias.