Dino Gavina: The Breaking and Making of Design Historical past
In Noda Metropolis, amid Japan’s Chiba Prefecture, the BUNDLESTUDIO takes form as a renovated Nineteen Seventies residence the place natural and trendy touches collide via its leveled interiors, skylights, and ranging finishes. In the present day, a uncommon exhibition fills up the gallery area to honor Dino Gavina — a pioneering and charismatic determine within the Italian trendy design world, introducing furnishings by visionaries like Kazuhide Takahama, the Castiglioni brothers, Ignazio Gardella, Carlo Scarpa, and Marcel Breuer. Operating till January 21, 2024, Dino Gavina: The Breaking and Making of Design Historical past provides a fowl’s eye view of Gavina’s achievements and a recent perspective on his ardour for ‘pioneering destruction’ and ‘new territories’, and his versatile pondering with a human contact. All through this visible journey, guests are additionally invited to find the intimate setting of the gallery — beginning with the doorway and main the best way into the eating room, residing space, examine, and bed room.
BUNDLE GALLERY in Noda, Chiba | picture © Sohei OYA / Nacása & Companions inc.
into the life and legacy of a pioneering italian designer
Born on November 7, 1922, within the quaint city of San Giovanni, Persiceto, Dino Gavina turned a pivotal determine in Twentieth-century Italian design, pushed by limitless ardour and collaboration. His story begins within the Forties with set designs for La Soffitta Theater in Bologna — an unassuming place to begin that progressively led him to an explosive profession in furnishings making, entrepreneurship, and publishing. The following stage of his profession took off within the Nineteen Fifties after crossing paths with Argentine-Italian painter and sculptor Lucio Fontana. A grasp in spatialism, Fontana launched him to the 1953 Milan Triennale and fellow trailblazers, together with Carlo De Carli, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Carlo Molino, Enzo Mari, and Carlo Scarpa. This destiny encounters propelled Gavina into the world of commercial design, essentially altering his artistic trajectory.
Carl Scarpa and Dino Gavina, 1975 | picture © Renzo Gambato & Luciana Miotto, courtesy Archivio Carlo Scarpa – Museo di Castelvecchio di Verona
Gavina crystallized his imaginative and prescient by establishing Gavina SpA in 1960 devoted to the Italian masters of the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties — particularly the Castiglioni brothers, Carlo and Tobia Scarpa, Cini Boeri, Vico Magistretti, and Mario Bellini. The turning level of this decade got here when Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni entrusted Gavina’s firm with producing the seminal Sanluca chair, additional solidifying his standing within the design world. Two years later, collectively with Cesare Cassina and industrialist Arturo Eisenkeil, Gavina co-founded the Italian lighting model FLOS, broadening his attain within the maker’s group. Unwilling to relaxation on his laurels, he joined forces in 1968 with Maria Simoncini to ascertain Studio Simon. The next 12 months witnessed the strategic switch of manufacturing for the Lierna chair from Cassina to Gavina SpA, a transfer that actually underscored the belief bestowed upon him by fellow designers.
the exhibition is operating till January 21, 2024 | picture © Sohei OYA / Nacása & Companions inc.
1974 introduced concerning the Metamobile undertaking, a partnership with artist and designer Enzo Mari that spotlights do-it-yourself design, leading to a sequence of tables, chairs, and beds crafted from Mari’s designs outlined in his Autoprogettazione e book. The simplicity of pine wooden boards, coupled with meeting utilizing screws, washers, and nuts, turned a particular hallmark of this collaboration —exemplifying Gavina’s dedication to innovation. His profound affect on the very material of design pondering translated into an industrial design award devoted in his title, issued by the Pesaro Furnishings Present: DOMO360. Artwork historian Anty Pansera referred to as him ‘Essentially the most transgressive operator of the Italian provide.‘ He drew his final breath on April 6, 2007, within the coronary heart of Bologna. After his passing, a serious exhibition was devoted to him — Dino Gavina, Design Flashes — on the MAMbo -Museo d’Arte Moderna in Bologna, that includes a few of his distinctive productions, together with the Lierna of 1969.
portrait of Gavina picture © Santi Caleca
a uncommon gavina furnishings & lighting present at bundlestudio
The BUNDLE GALLERY celebrates Gavina’s extraordinary thoughts and disruptive pondering by characteristic uncommon classic furnishings and lighting from GAVINA SpA and Studio Simon, in addition to present merchandise from firms like Cassina, FLOS, Knoll, NEMO, paradisoterrestre, and Santa & Cole. The present additionally introduces works by Gavina in collaboration with creatives like Man Ray and Roberto Matta. Moreover, the gallery is displaying and promoting two flat and two three-dimensional works by Lucio Fontana, whose Spatialism idea had a major affect on post-war up to date artwork previous. Shifting to the transformed bed room, guests are met by a screening of a Gavina interview, together with a choice of books on structure, artwork, and design devoted to him, curated and offered by Yusuke Nakajima of the bookstore POST. Ebook your tickets for Dino Gavina: The Breaking and Making of Design Historical past on the gallery web site.
picture © Sohei OYA / Nacása & Companions inc.
