ART FROM KALPA IN A PERFECT CONNUBIUM WITH DESIGN BY MOLTENI&C

The energy rising from the gestures of KALPA Galleries' selected artists, alongside the aesthetic qualities and emotions intrinsic to their artworks, infuse authentic life, human awareness and a sense of tranquility into the living context designed by Vincent Van Duysen for Molteni&C Home Concept at Salone del Mobile 2024. Following this principle, the visitors entering the exquisite setting of the stand found themselves surrounded by a curated selection of paintings and ceramic sculptures, part of KALPA's represented art collection. Art creations, featuring organic shapes and natural textures, were consciously integrated into Molteni&C space to dialogue with the Company's iconic pieces, enhancing their timeless style and bringing inward the energetic quintessence of the earth.

KALPA works with emerging and established artists and makers from many disciplines, offering diverse cultural backgrounds, inspirations, and techniques converging within a diorama of wall and sculptural artworks.

According to KALPA's vision and philosophy, the inner force of art is presented across a group of artworks ranging from striking contemporary earthy canvases, functional vases and abstract sculptures in stoneware, volcanic clay and porcelain. Evocative and textural surfaces, references to the natural realm and ancestral shapes live in the elegant context of Molteni&C design and emerge as accents of colour and form, capturing the visitors’ eye. 

Visible on Patricia Shone’s Erosion Jars stoneware vessels are memories of a distant and epic landscape for her work encompasses the core of the Isle of Skye’s dramatic scenery, the artist’s birthplace, reflecting the land’s ancient geological formation and erosion. Elegantly nestled in a wall library, is Sabine Pagliarulo’s maternal and pure Second Chance sculpture in white stoneware and porcelain, releasing both energy and tension from the clay itself, as well as alluding to a sentiment of rebirth and protection. On another side of the room, a majestic sculpted vase in volcanic black clay by Jojo Corväiá conveys the artist’s appreciation for irregular forms, instinct and natural processes of expression.

Punctuating the walls of Molteni&C Fair stand, is finally a succession of Eleanor Herbosch’s refined paintings from her new series Raw Umber, created with the unique soil from the natural surroundings of Volterra. Embodying the millenary history and beauty of this Tuscan city's mineral-rich land and showing an umber coloured visual ensemble, the signs impressed on the canvases are the result of organic movements, resembling a fracture, a permanent action, interplays of light and shadow, and alternations of moments of pause and motion. Creating a visual experience resulting from an harmonious encounter of matter, philosophical principles and intuitiveness, Herbosch’s work honours the traditional heritage and technical process of Japanese calligraphic painting, as expressed through a careful configuration of brush strokes.

Artistic gestures are framed within a setting of timeless elegance and essentiality of lines, where KALPA’s contemporary art vision meets Molteni&C's international design and history.

"PERENNI" EXHIBITION EXTENDED AT THE MOLTENI&C PAVILION

KALPA-curated exhibition PERENNI, set in the modernist-influenced architectural gem Pavilion by Vincent Van Duysen at the Molteni&C Compound in Giussano (Brianza), is extended until Autumn 2024.

Bringing indoors the inner force of Nature's eternal spirit and energies, artworks by Yoshimi Futamura (Japan/France), Federico Gori (Italy) and Marc Ricourt (France) are sharply installed within the design of the Pavilion to create a harmonious array of ceramic sculptures, intricate engravings on copper, and sculpted wood vessels inviting reveries and contemplation. According to an all-around holistic vision of space that considers the environment, the human and the architectural, PERENNI invites the visitor to take an organic visual journey where the languages of art and craft suffuse the spirit of architecture.

Read more: PERENNI - EMBRACING THE FORCE OF NATURE IN YOUR HOME

In virtue of the critical urgency of reconsidering Nature as man's first home, the exhibition revolves around the ideas of the multiplication and metamorphosis of form and matter and the key role of plants as witnesses of history and the vehicles of universal messages.

Photography: Daniel Civetta for KALPA, @danielcivetta

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