Cross Shaped Mirror Utopia

DUPLEX presents UTOPIA: an exhibition that celebrates the spirit of the second postwar Italian Design Revolution.On view now at the Duplex Gallery @ The Mill Building Williamsburg.“The fantastic achievement of Italian Design is the incredibly rich cultural transfer into mass products. The influence of these pieces in the pop culture is incommensurable; I like to make a parallel with the Beatles in popular music. Perhaps, in our modern advanced digitalized democracies, design has lost a bit of its ingenuity and the utopic world is no longer being sought. I want this exhibit to be a tribute to the original vision that permeated the early years of Italian design.”The exhibition feat selection of iconic pieces, with a focus on Acerbis: the “Free System” sofa and “Napoleone” table by Claudio Salocchi, “Due Più” chairs and “Storet” chests by Nanda Vigo and the “Florian”folding table by Vico Magistretti. These, along with cc-tapis rug designed by the Georgian duo “Rooms Studio”, an original 1958 Luigi Caccia Dominioni “Catilina” armchair, a 1973 “Orseolo” desk designed by Scarpa and the 1975 masterpiece “Bramante" sideboard by Kazuhide Takahama for Simon. A couple of “Botolo” chairs by Cini Boeri for Arflex in Casentino wool, the “Dolmen” lamp by Ferruccio Laviani for Foscarini and the instant classic “Spade”chair by Faye Toogood for Please Wait to be Seated. Diptych - Tar on Canvas “Untitiled”: (No Trace - 2009 -2010 ) is an work by John Colao inspired and created during the Big Sur basin fire in 2009.