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Honor Imperfection as a hidden intention - exhibition by Onsitestudio

Date
20.04.2017
Category
Library
Honor Imperfection is on display at the KADK Library from 25 April - 1 June, 2017

Angelo Lunati and Giancarlo Floridi from Onsitestudio have collected a series of objects in a 'cabinet of wonders' which is now on display under the title "HONOR IMPERFECTION AS A HIDDEN INTENTION."

Their starting point is at the crossroads between industrial building design, architectural craftmanship and the artistic dimensions of architecture.

The exhibition draws focus on the sensual in architectural materiality and on the quality of building materials.

At the KADK Library from 21 April until 1 June, 2017.

Onsitestudio skriver om udstillingen:

" For the XXI Triennale, O n s i tes t u d i o proposes a cabinet of wonders, a small Wunderkammer. The exhibition examines certain aspects of making architecture in the contemporary world: through the careful arrangement of different sets of objects, finished or unfinished things, production tools, surfaces, couplings, molds, raw materials – all elements that have the charm of the catalogue and their own objective beauty at the same time the exhibition reflects on the present possibility of grant- ing architecture physical presence, applying both industrial production and craftsmanship.

The investigation thus focuses on the atmospheric qualities of buildings, the possible ambiguities between industrial production and craftsmanship, including the loss of the physical dimension due to the industrial process and human interaction inside contemporary production processes.

 

Honor Imperfection focuses on the sensual in architectural materiality

In relation to the strong virtualization and hyper-industrialization of production processes, architecture loses materiality, and the sense of it. This leads to the need to recover the physical quality of buildings, the sensation of their materials, the perceptive qualities related to variations and imperfections of bodies (constructed or otherwise).

This may happen by going back to the working tools, reasserting craftsmanship in the concrete presence of the unfinished materials, coming to terms with the physical quality of architecture, made of materials that are always different, like the people who produce them.

These sets of objects refer to three projects by Onsitestudio in Milan: the hotel on Piazza Duca d’Aosta, the BASE cultural center at the former Ansaldo site, and the public school in Cascina Merlata. "