The biennial international lighting expo Euroluce is an inspiring event for the light design dimension.
"Costellazioni” an art exhibition curated by Beppe Finessi with a distinct architectural language on the theme of light.
How not to visit the installation dedicated to the great architect Gae Aulenti?
Below you will find a brief presentation of this great architect and the iconic lamps on display.
Gabriella Ruggieri for 1blog4u
Italy's most globally-acclaimed designer of the latter half of the twentieth century, Gae Aulenti always sought to deconstruct rationalist design, over the years getting to grips with Neo-liberty, Pop Art and other expressions of contemporary art. Courageous and determined, always driven by a keen civic and social sensibility, she showed a patent predilection for design with curved and sinuous lines, perhaps an analogy to the round glasses she always wore, to which she entrusted part of her own public image and identity.
In her tenacious efforts to break free of functionalist abstraction, Gae Aulenti combined a keen taste for the dramatic expressed through a passion for the theatre, layouts and stagings. Wherever she worked and whatever she did, whether it was designing a chair or a museum, a table lamp or a set for a play, Gae Aulenti was, first and foremost, always an architect. Attentive to recovering cultural and popular traditions as a way of rejecting the petty-bourgeois banality of certain Modernist thinking, she transformed her work on objects into a kind of common thread linking not just present and past but large and small scales, applying her architectural gaze and attention to the spatial values of which she (a woman in a man's world) was always so proud to the world of things, furnishings and lights.
She notably once said: "Architecture is a man's profession, but I always pretended not to know that".
