" For me "TerraTerra" is very simple, something effortless within everyone’s reach, lacking in preconceived or sophistic aspects. It is natural like clouds in the sky and plants in the ground,like birds in their nests and people in their homes." A.S.

Alberi , 2006
approx. 450x450x300h cm
Pressed aluminium, polyurethane coating
Limited edition

Nido, Armchairs, 2006
Interwoven with anodized aluminium wire

Uova, 2007
White, in resined polyurethane (in collaboration with Gianni Osgnach)
Gold, in gold-plated aluminium plate

Tronchi, Cupboards, 2006
Cast aluminium
Limited edition

"Welcome to Andrea's craftsmanship, a world shaped by his technical expertise and his love and knowledge of nature as expressed in his magical reproductions. Welcome to Andrea's emotions informing poetry and his intrinsic memory of things, both partners of his daily life. And welcome to his bold choices of materials, dimensions, weights and to the deeper meanings of the natural world into which he draws us in filtering his peen observations of the outdoors. Welcome to his artistic determination free of marketing innuendos. Welcome Andrea Salvetti, bearer of "humus", of fertile genius. And welcome to his gift for story telling using animals, tree trunks, cases of fruit, eggs, trees and nests. Welcome to his tales, personal notes winding their way through a land off the beaten track. The province of Lucca between the town of Pescaglia and the Apuan Alps. A region of wooded wilderness, of farming communities and of the heart."
Clara Mantica

The exhibition is accompanied by the book "Andrea Salvetti TerraTerra", published by Electa, texts by Clara Mantica, Gianpiero Mughini and Alessandro Romanini.
The book covers several of the milestones in Andrea Salvetti’s work and looks back at 10 years of artistic activity in the fields of design and sculpture.

Akomena - "ALFABETA"- "SERENOVARIABILE"
["ALPHABET" - "FINECHANGEABLE"]
ALFABETA small tables
A series of small tables with structure in brushed steel and a mosaic top measuring 45x45 centimetres at 5 different heights. The idea behind the design is simple: to suggest crosswords and sentences using the letters of the mosaic decoration on the table-top: a game striking a strongly conceptual note combined with a vigorously pop style, with fascinating echoes of the artist Alighiero Boetti and the letter puzzles loved by children
SERENOVARIABILE
A composition made up of a series of mosaic floor coverings measuring 80x80 cm that can be put together in an infinite number of combinations.
The design suggests, with fleeting but deeply suggestive signs, smaller and larger clouds that build up as the squares are put together, to create an ideal sky, a changeable sky.
Is it clouding over or clearing to fine?

Claudio Bitetti -"ZERO1712"
table in iron painted military green with a rubberised effect
dimensions in cm: 220x110x75h

Elegant and informal
Right wing and left wing
Emotional and rational
Minimalist and baroque

Alessandro Ciffo - "XXI SILICO I SOLIDI MOLLI"
["XXI SILICON THE SOFT SOLIDS"]
a cube measuring 100 x 100 x 100
a parallelepipedon measuring 100 x 140 x 40
a sphere 100 cm in diameter
"They were something I kept thinking about as I drove along the motorway: whenever I got up to Carrara I would always see the white marble quarries and, straight after that, I would see those spaces where the marble is stored under the open sky: blocks and slabs lined up and exposed to the sun. At I certain point I imagined them made of silicon and added to my vocabulary the word 'sculpture'. I had the vision of soft solids, elementary plastic forms, in which everything however was softer and coloured. I colour it too, my silicon marble: I do it in layers like a sedimentation, in cubes like large crystals, I cut it in slabs and hang them up and, as soon as I can, I sculpt it."

the works are a preview of the exhibition and the catalogue
2007 KILOGRAMS OF SILICON IN TYPOGRAPHY
one-person show of work by Alessandro Ciffo
curated by Marina Mojana

Dum Dum Arredamente - "MAMANONMAMA" - "ALTA CUCITURA"
MAMANONMAMA vase
in stainless steel at varying heights.
ALTA CUCITURA bookcase 80cm diameter x 170 high
in stainless steel and marine nylon using laser cutting technology, brushing, and stitching to the mid-point
An original concept transforms the way of assembling and shaping metal: instead of soldering, everything is stitched together, to produce a precious object.

Ennezero - "IN ARTE VALENTINA : IL FALSO KANDINSKY"
["IN ART VALENTINA: A KANDINSKY FORGERY"]
Taken from the book In arte Valentina, a collection of 4 cabinets with comic strips by Guido Crepax silk-screened in four colours and dedicated to Kandinsky

Davide Medri - "MERLINO" - " RE' ARTU'"
["MERLINO" - "KING ARTHUR"]
SNOW WHITE mirror
(elliptical in shape, 170 cm high with a frame of tesserae of reflective gold)
KING ARTHUR table
(diameter 120 cm 75 cm high, covered in gold leaf and mirror of gold)
From Byzantine tradition come these tesserae of gold forming objects, tables and oval mirrors for cosmopolitan environments. Davide Medri's new collection creates a new magic world of fairies and dragons, crowned by the Snow White mirror and King Arthur table.

Pieke Bergmans - "UTOPIA INFECTED"
The Mirror Virus resembles the world map. Its countries and continents
have been thoroughly deformed and re-arranged, infected by a virus.
With countries combined in new ways and borders neglected, could this
be a better world? Looking at the work, you find yourself reflected in
all parts of the planet. And a mirror of course works two ways; it is
not just the planet that is distorted, but also your reflection.
"Beware, you are infected!" It makes sense; when you look in one of
these mirrors, you see a distorted, infected image of yourself.
Reflection = Infection.

DILMOS - PIAZZA SAN MARCO 1 - 20121 MILANO
10.00 am – 9.00 pm, APRIL 18 -23, 2007
OPENING : COCKTAIL, WEDNESDAY APRIL 18, 6.00 pm