Tre sfere
Alessandro Mendini, Tre sfere 1
Alessandro Mendini, Tre sfere 2
This vase consists of various spheres, with varying diameters, penetrating into each other to generate a complex figure. Visually, the work refers to soap bubbles, when they remain attached to each other for a brief moment. But here, what is evident, is the weight, the ceramic material.
Alessandro Mendini
The Tre sfere, in gold and platinum, by Alessandro Mendini were prototyped in Albisola (Italy) in 2006 during the 3rd Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art and was also presented at the exhibition “Handmade in Albisola”, La Triennale, Milan Design Week 2007.
Tre sfere
Alessandro Mendini, Tre sfere 3
Alessandro Mendini, Tre sfere 4
Alessandro Mendini’s vases are complex sculptural forms translating soap bubbles into ceramics, as they interpenetrate in the air with absolute lightness. The stylistic and slightly snobbish reference to small substanceless bubbles opens up the way to an amusing project, which excludes any kind of major narrative. The soap bubbles, reworked and enlarged in precious metals like gold, bronze and shiny black, stand out in space like weird, fragile presences.
Alessandro Mendini, Tre sfere. “Cambiare il mondo con un vaso di fiori”, Pierluigi and Natalina Remotti Foundation-City of Camogli, 2010-2011
Alessandro Mendini, Tre sfere. “Cambiar el mundo con un vaso de flores”, Italian Cultural Institute, Madrid, 2010
Alessandro Mendini, Tre sfere. “Cambiar el mundo con un vaso de flores”, Italian Cultural Institute, Madrid, 2010
Alessandro Mendini, Tre sfere. “Cambiar el mundo con un vaso de flores”, Italian Cultural Institute, Madrid, 2010
Alessandro Mendini, Tre sfere. “Cambiar el mundo con un vaso de flores”, Italian Cultural Institute, Madrid, 2010
The Tre sfere, in bronze and black lustre, by Alessandro Mendini were prototyped in Albisola (Italy) during the travelling exhibition “Changing the world with a vase of flowers”, MUDAC-Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts, Lausanne, 2011; Pierluigi and Natalina Remotti Foundation-City of Camogli, 2010-2011; Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid-Italian Embassy in Spain, 2010.
