FIREZNE // Aria di cantiere

L7 _ A focus on two emerging Florentine designers curated by Duccio Maria Gambi _ The L7 area will host the introduction of two emerging designers from Florence, an exhibition curated by Duccio Maria Gambi. This is the first result and output of the kind of exchange and synergy which going on in Manifattura Tabacchi, the former tobacco manufacture of Florence. This huge area is going through a respectful but important renovation that’s bringing life back in this 120.000 sqm and setting up a focal point for the Florentine art, design, and fashion life. A focal and meeting point that the city lacked and that will permit the dispersed energy of the city to be concentrated and expanded. It’s in this context that Duccio had the possibility to get in touch with Sasha’s work and approach, and from this with Daniele’s one. Ribera and Giannetti will present their first collections. Both of them, with different materials and languages bu linked by the same hands-on approach and manual experimentation, get to produce a body of works which come to the foreground and solate themselves through their strong identi-ty. The memory of the hand and of the material are still visible but the use of color confuse the perception of their real nature and elevate them to an abstract and contemporary dimension.

A9 _ Aria di cantiere is a group of works that stands in between installation, outdoor furniture, micro archi-tecture and big size sculpture. The spatial research and the functional investigation are activated through a serie of und fined shapes that ask to be undisclosed in their use. Their referring universe is the building site space, in their fence and delimitating elements, rough wooden boards which find in the color a tool to elevate themselves and expand their poor and functional character. 3-4 works in different scales will each define a relation between the inside and the outside, between the person and the environment through the positions and points of view that they will create. The building site it’s also referred through the use of recovered materials from the huge renovation project of Manifattura Tabacchi in Florence, where Duccio has his studio.