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They are all Italian and all in some way draw on the theme of memory. This is true even when they deal with current sporting events associated with the imminent inauguration of the Winter Olympics. There are ten of them and for the most part they are held in the most reserved cultural circuits, outside the mainstream. It’s even better when they’re out of town, bringing historic residences to life with gleams and flashes of good design
Federico Villa, design and the Anthropocene
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Bomori Architetti, Roma, photo courtesy Federico Villa
The Como-born photographer homes in on design and architecture, as well as exploring the complex relationship between humans and nature
Plusultra Studio, near Milano, photo courtesy Federico Villa
Villa specialises in design and architecture, photographing iconic objects such as the Artemide lamp and Osvaldo Borsani’s armchairs, or the typical forms of architects’ interiors for leading sectoral publications. The other side to his work leverages “photography as a language for archiving the contemporary through a critical reading of the relationship between the natural and the artificial.”
Torre Milano, photo courtesy Federico Villa
Are the ski station, seen as an intrusive out of place micro-world, and the submerged bench (caused by rising sea levels?) examples of human invasion and nature fighting back? Then, like still lifes, there are his heaps of cartridge cases, of graphite pencil stubs, allusive of a discourse on raw material extraction and hunting, as if taken from a bottomless natural pit, transformed into an added value not without knock-on effects.
Ortalli Verrier Architetti, Bellagio, photo courtesy Federico Villa
From the series Pastoral, 2022, photo courtesy Federico Villa
From the series Pastoral, 2022, photo courtesy Federico Villa
photo courtesy Federico Villa
Studio Wok, Milano, photo courtesy Federico Villa
Fernweh Architettura, Milano, photo courtesy Federico Villa
Studio Wok, Bormio, photo courtesy Federico Villa
Artemide 2021, photo courtesy Federico Villa
Human Code, Roberto Sironi, photo courtesy Federico Villa
Human Code, Roberto Sironi, photo courtesy Federico Villa
From the series Pastoral, 2022, photo courtesy Federico Villa
From the series Pastoral, 2022, photo courtesy Federico Villa
Supercake, near Milano, photo courtesy Federico Villa
Ortalli Verrier, library near Milano, photo courtesy Federico Villa
Mogu, photo courtesy Federico Villa
From the series Pastoral, 2022, photo courtesy Federico Villa
From the series Pastoral, 2022, photo courtesy Federico Villa
Osvaldo Borsani ADV for Triennale Milano, photo courtesy Federico Villa
5 February 2022
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