Wunderkammer

 

Wunderkammer

在文艺复兴和巴洛克时期,王子、统治者和学者们设立了他们的 “Kunst and Wunderkammer” 收藏室:收藏珍贵的艺术品 (手工艺术品)、稀有的自然现象 (自然艺术品)、科学仪器 (科学艺术品)、来自奇怪世界的物品 (新奇物品) 和无法解释的物品 (奇异物品)。

During the Renaissance and Baroque periods, princes, rulers, and scholars set up their “Kunst and Wunderkammer”: collectors rooms in which precious artworks (artificialia), rare phenomena of nature (naturalia), scientific instruments (scientifica), objects from strange worlds (exotica) and inexplicable items (mirabilia) were preserved. They served to demonstrate the wealth and power of the owner and reflected the standard of knowledge and view of theworld at that time. This year Visionnaire presents its Wunderkammer. Selected pieces realized in limited edition and presented in a contemporary context, through exhalation of unique scents, specifically created for Visionnaire. They provide an insight into the past and creates the very thing it was able to do some two to five centuries ago; to transport the visitors into a realm of sheer astonishment, in a desire of discovering, in few words: in a “Visionnaire dream”.

 

NICOLA BOLLA - MANUEL FELISI - ENZO FIORE - ALESSANDRO LA SPADA

Wunderkammer. Visionnaire Wunderkammer
Wunderkammer. Visionnaire Wunderkammer
Wunderkammer. Visionnaire Wunderkammer
Wunderkammer. Visionnaire Wunderkammer
Wunderkammer. Visionnaire Wunderkammer
Wunderkammer. Visionnaire Wunderkammer
Wunderkammer. Visionnaire Wunderkammer

Artist

Nicola Bolla

(Saluzzo – Cuneo, 1963). He lives and works in Torino. His sculptures and settings are the expression of a new Vanitas through the studied use of the Swarovski crystals studded on the subjects of the artist’s personal collection. Skulls, mytological animals, urinals, loops or chains, different objects both for dimension and for icon meaning, where visual and thematic oxymorons coexist: dark and light, shape and contents, opulence and poverty. Following Duchamp’s lesson of decontextualizing an object in order to enrich it with new formal values, Nicola Bolla’s poetics goes over the reading between object and design, transposing it into the urge of a story focused on beauty, surreal and poetic. Nicola Bolla is one of the artists invited to the “Padiglione Italia” during the 53rd edition of the “Biennale” in Venice in 2009.

Alessandro La Spada

From the lively creativity of Alessandro La Spada “Sandrino butcher’s” comes to life, a consideration on the condition of existence through its own “Doppelgänger”, the evil twin which belongs to us and with which we dichotomically alternate! These manufactures are the liberating motion of that thought which investigates on the appeal of shape as mere visual art, free from the functional pragmatism of the object. Furniture as sculpture for the Visionnaire “Wunderkammer”.

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