Craftmania
Nilufar Depot, viale Lancetti 34
The craft-revolution bursts into Nilufar Depot by Nina Yashar, with Craftmania, curated by Valentina Ciuffi with his Studio Vedèt.
An investigation that shows, through the works of Carlo Lorenzetti, Etienne Marc and the Dutch duo Odd Matter, techno-craft, craftsmanship enhanced by technology and research, which looks to tradition but to mess up the rules, to rewrite formal and aesthetic codes, in a sensible and profitable way, but with that pinch of provocation that never hurts.
An example? Carlo Lorenzetti, obsessed with the Colombino ceramic technique, an art that precedes the discovery of the lathe and dates back to 4000 BC, rolls clay in the form of curbs stacked on top of each other concentrically to shape sculptures.
Lorenzetti updates a millenary technique with new resistant and stable ceramic mixtures, and goes further, setting between ceramic and glass of wireless devices for charging mobile phones.