Architect and designer Andrea Branzi (1938-2023) was part of the vanguard movement of Radical Architecture, and his designs are today in the permanent collection of the Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione in Parma, and at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Branzi has been active in many fields, including architecture, industrial and experimental design, urban planning, education and cultural promotion. Author of many books and essays about design, published in different countries, as well as books about his work have been published at international level. Additionally, Branzi has been the editor of design magazine MODO from 1982 to 1984, and has been a member of the National council of Design at the Italian Ministry of Culture. As a scientific curator of the new design museum of Triennale di Milano, he has curated its two first exhibitions.
One year after Branzi’s passing, an exhibition at 10 Corso Como Gallery in Milan celebrates the prodigious creative’s radical vision and mindset. Entitled Andrea Branzi. Civilizations without jewels have never existed, the showcase is curated by multi-tasking creative Alessio de’ Navasques, and presents an itinerary which lines up and creates an intriguing dialogue among the works, documents, drawings and photographs on display. The exhibition is anchored by a selection of jewellery pieces, gold and silver garlands, crowns and necklaces that ‘adorn the human body in a landscape, heightening its aura with leaves and natural elements and highlighting that mystical dimension of ornamentation in its primordial meaning as a means to bring humans closer to the divine’, as de’ Navasques writes in the text that accompanies the show (on through Feb 16). © superfuture
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Corso Como 10
20154 Milan
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