What Martino Gamper did between two thousand and Thursday 11th March 2010

Stanze e Camere + 100 Chairs in 100 Days
Martino Gamper
6 October – 8 November 2009
Triennale Design Museum, Milano, Italy
In Collaboration with Gallery Nilufar
Curated by Silvana Annicchiarico
www.triennale.it
www.triennaledesignmuseum.it

Autoprogettazione Revisited: Easy-to-assemble Furniture Enzo Mari and invited guests
Architectural Association, London
03 - 27 October 2009

Autoprogettazione Revisted is a group exhibition that traces the influence of renowned Italian designer Enzo Mari’s 1970’s project for self-made furniture. Using the AA Gallery as a project space, nine artists and designers were commissioned to respond to Mari’s instruction-based furniture plans with their own set of instructions.

For Mari, the quality and integrity of a piece of work is determined when the shape of an object does not ‘seem’ but simply ‘is’. In a text accompanying the instructions, he writes that ‘anyone, apart from factories and traders, can use the designs to make them by themselves’. Seen originally by Mari as a means for the self-fabrication of quality design objects, Autoprogettazione continues today as an expression of open source and collaborative design thinking made topical by a recent proliferation of digital technologies.

Invited artists/designers: Phyllida Barlow; Broussard/Seilles; Martino Gamper; Graham Hudson; Keung Caputo; Lucas Maassen; Joe Pipal

With thanks to: The studio of Enzo Mari; Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Parma; and the Triennale Design Museum, Milano.
taken from the press release

www.aaschool.ac.uk

db Sedia
2009

London Design Festival
19 Sept - 27 Sept 2009
V & A Museum, London

We felt Britain deserved a pat on the back this year for services to design, which have surged of late, both in interest and success on a global scale, so we set about commissioning one of London’s most exciting resident designers (well versed in the art of chairs) to build an arch using chairs from one of Britain’s most historic manufacturers. Martino Gamper was the man, Ercol the manufacturer and together, with construction expertise from engineers Atelier One, the contemporary arch took shape.
Taken from the press release
In collaboration with Wallpaper* Magazine, Ercol and Atelier One

Images ©Anthony Dickenson (www.stemagency.com)

Super Contemporary
3 June – 4 October
Design Museum, London
Design Museum has joined forces with Beefeater 24 to celebrate the fearlessly progressive spirit of London’s greatest creative minds, past and present. The exhibition was designed by Martino Gamper and graphic design consultancy Bibliothèque, and guest-curated by Daniel Charny

www.designmuseum.org

Beyond Kiosk - Modes of Multiplication
Mudam, Luxembourg
15 March–13 September 2009
Curator: Christoph Keller
Exhibition design: Martino Gamper
© Photo: Andres Lejona

This on-going project, initiated by German publisher and designer Christoph Keller, who founded the publishing company Revolver, is a travelling exhibition focusing on independent publishing in the fields of contemporary art, design and graphic design. It’s starting point is Kiosk, an expending archive, which gathers today over 6.000 publications – artists’ books, catalogues, magazines, videos, audio works – and which travelled to more than twenty institutions all over the world since 2001, including the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Witte de With in Rotterdam, ICA in London and Artists’ Space in New York City. Beyond Kiosk has been thought of as a curated selection from this archive, aiming at showcasing the most relevant examples of independent publishing in contemporary art. It gathers around 700 publications from 250 publishers as varied as Book Works, Dot Dot Dot, Vier5, Printed Matter Inc. and Zédélé Éditions. For each presentation of Beyond Kiosk, a designer or artist is commissioned to develop a new display for the exhibition. Mudam has invited English designer Martino Gamper, whose recent project 100 Chairs in 100 Days at the London Design Museum in 2007, as well as his participation at Manifesta 7 in 2008, attracted a lot of attention, to imagine the exhibition design.
taken from the press release

SuperStories
2nd Triennial of contemporary art, fashion and design
Hasselt, Belgium
Feb-May 2009
www.superstories.be

The Hasselt Triennial is a dynamic art project for contemporary arts, fashion and design, and all possible relations between them.
The Triennial takes place in the city of Hasselt. The whole city becomes the stage but the culture houses serve as the central locations.
The project has international ambitions and addresses Flanders, the Euregion and international art and culture lovers. At set times, the Triennial project focuses on the interaction and the confrontation between art and applied arts, how they influence and feed each other and whether it is sense or nonsense to consider them as separate worlds. The confrontation or the connection between both worlds is the starting point for a range of exhibitions and will be expounded through an elaborate educational programme with lectures and workshops and in a catalogue. Through its high-quality and diverse mix of contemporary visual arts and applied arts (fashion & design), the Triennial presents a platform for both young and upcoming regional artists and big names from the national and international art, fashion and design world.
taken from the press release

Nowhere/ Now/ Here
LABoral Centro de Arte
Gijon, Spain
09 October 2008 - 20 April 2009

Four Seater Empty Chairs
2008
Four Seater Empty Chairs are pieces that explore the negative space, in this case that of a chair. Martino Gamper wanted to create a chair where one would use the inside void of a seat. it can be used in two directions: as a chair and in combination as a desk.
The work was initially conceived in 2004 for an exhibition called Furniture I’ve Always Wanted to Make at the M + R gallery in east London.

LABoral Centro de Arte shows Nowhere/Now/Here, an exhibition curated by the creative partnership of Roberto Feo and Rosario Hurtado (El Último Grito) that challenges the perception of design by questioning our relationship with the environment. Taking the viewpoint that our environment has become part of us rather than us being part of it, as its point of departure, Nowhere/Now/ Here encourages us to see design as an integral component of the world-shaping process.

CURATORS: Roberto Feo and Rosario Hurtado (El Último Grito)

ARTISTS: 5:5 Designers, AA, Amidov, Assa Ashuach, Bruce Bell, Bryony Birkbeck, Tord Boontje, Marta Botas & Germán R. Blanco, David Bowen, Fernando Brizio, Nacho Carbonell, Daniel Charny & Gabriel Klasmer, Santiago Cirugeda, Carl Clerkin, Paul Cocksedge, Dainippon Type Organization, Óscar Díaz, Dunne & Raby, Daniel Eatock, Olivia Flore Decaris, Tiago Fonseca, Fulguro & Thomas Jomini, Architecture Workshop, Martino Gamper, Martí Guixé, Mathias Hahn, Interaction Research Studio, Onkar Kular, Tithi Kutchamuch, Dash MacDonald, Material Beliefs (Auger-Loizeau, Elio Caccavale, Tobie Kerridge, Susana Soares, Aleksandar Zivanovic, David Muth), Alejandro Mazuelas, Alon Meron, mmmm…, Eelko Moorer, Oscar Narud, NB: Studio, Ernesto Oroza, Marc Owens, Pedrita, Laura Potter, Corinne Quin, Random International, Raw Edges Design Studio, Nic Rysenbry, Jerszy Seymour, Bert Simons, Studio Glithero, Yuri Suzuki, Gregor Timlin, Noam Toran, Manel Torres, Maud Traon, Troika, Pablo Valbuena, Greetje van Helmond, Dominic Wilcox, Nick Williamson, Marei Wollersberger, Zaunka

More info about the show here

A Recent History of Writing and Drawing, 2008
July 9th – August 31st 2008
Institute of Contemporary Arts - London
An exhibition by Jürg Lehni and Alex Rich
Furniture by Martino Gamper

‘A Recent History of Writing and Drawing’ is an interactive exhibition which explores the creative potential of graphic technologies.
Conceived by designers Jürg Lehni and Alex Rich, the exhibition sees the ICA’s lower gallery transformed into a workspace where a number of machines, developed to enable writing and drawing, exist. Together these machines present a range of techniques from chalk on board, to holes punched in paper and images projected on screen.

The show on a whole consists of four individual exhibits including, ‘Dots on Demand’, a workstation with a very simple graphic interface which invites visitors to type in their own sentences and then feed a sheet of paper of their choice into the cutter and see their sentences cut out. Visitors will be able to take their own poster home as a souvenir, while copies will also be displayed within the gallery.

Photo: ©Marcus Leith

The Flight of the Dodo
Project, Dublin
July - August 2008

Tim Braden (UK), Ryan Gander (UK), Martino Gamper (IT), Sven Johne (DE), Irene Kopelman (AR), Eoin McHugh (IE), Francis Upritchard (NZ), Douglas White (UK)

What we share is curiosity, of the world that exists and that which is to come.
The Flight of the Dodo is an eclectic exhibition made up of various artworks and elements that celebrate adventure, delve into factual myths, plunging in and out of notions of the hybrid, evolution, imaginative escapism, the will to survive and ultimate extinction.

The exhibition includes artists who have an eye on the flipside of life, the next steps in evolution and an interest in the endgame. While we read endlessly of global warming and the future migration which will be necessary to survive, there is much debate and angst about the timeframe for this outcome. Some artists focus on the landscape after the fall while others envisage salvation through science and technology. Some artworks let you escape from rational understanding, while others ground you in disaster archaeology of the 20th Century.

30 May - 30 August 2008
The Aram Gallery

The Aram Gallery has initiated a series of displays made up of prototypes and experiments sourced from designers’ studios. The displays will form a long-term and ever-changing exhibition, with a new piece brought into the gallery each time another is sold or returned to its owner.

A group exhibition with work by a.b.a.k.e., Jorre van Ast, Sebastian Bergne, Jurgen Bey, Martino Gamper, Thomas Gardner, El Ultimo Grito, Gitta Gschwendtner, Ineke Hans, Matthew Hilton, Michael Marriott, Ben Panayi, Tomek Rygalik and Floris Schoonderbeek.

Photo ©Shira Klasmer

Corner Bench 06
Prototype
1200×1000×430
Mdf, timber, screws
2004

Martino has exhibited at :

*Denotes solo exhibition

2009
‘Stanze e Camere + 100 Chairs in 100 Days’, Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy*
‘Sitting and Seating’, Nilufar Gallery, Milano, Italy
‘Autoprogettazione Revisited’, Architectural Association, London
‘Chair Arch’, with *Wallpaper & Ercol, V&A Museum, London
‘Boule to Braid’, Curated by Richard Wentworth, Lisson Gallery, London
‘Super Contemporary’, Design Museum, London
‘U.F.O Art & Design’, NRW Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany
‘Beyond Kiosk - Modes of Multiplication’, Mudam, Luxembourg
‘Feierabend’, Kate MacGarry Gallery, London, UK
‘Gio Ponti Translated’, Nilufar Gallery, Milano, Italy
‘SuperStories”, Triennial of contemporary art, fashion and design, Hasselt, Belgium

2008
‘Nowhere Now Here Now’, LABoral, Gijón-Asturias, Spain
‘Mollino-Gamper, Frieze Art Fair, Salon 94, London
‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’, Somerset House, London
‘Inspirations’, Conran, London
‘A Recent History of Writing and Drawing’, ICA, London
‘Undiszipliniert’, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
‘Flight of the Dodo’, Project, Dublin
‘Manifesta7’, Fortezza/ Fanzensfeste, Italy
‘Here There and Everywhere’, Leeds Met, Leeds
‘Prototypes & Experiments’, Aram Gallery, London
‘Receiving’, Wright, Chicago*
‘Designer of the Future”, Design Miami, Basel
‘Salone del Mobile’, Nilufar Gallery, Milano
‘Total Trattoria’, The Aram Gallery, London*
‘Designer of the Year’, Design Museum, London – winner of furniture catagory
‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich,

2007
‘Cose’, Galleria Prisma, Bolzano
‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève
‘Gio Ponti Translate by Martino Gamper’, Nilufar Gallery, Milano
‘A 100 chairs in 100 Days’, 5 Cromwell Place, London*
‘Getting it Louder’, British Council traveling exhibition, Guangzhou, China
‘If Gio Only Knew’, design performance, Design Miami/ Basel, Basel
‘Salone del Mobile’, Nilufar Gallery, Milano
‘Confronting the Chair’, solo show, Design Museum, London*

2006
‘Chairs for Walking-Chair’, Walking Chair Gallery, Wien*
‘No Entry’, with Ron Arad, Chain, Chain, Chain Gallery, London
‘Miss-Fit’, Freiraum Museumsquartier, Wien
‘Seequence’, Chain, Chain, Chain Gallery, London
‘Tigenes’, National Gallery, Oslo
‘Talents’, Ambiente, Messe Frankfurt

2005
‘Zoo Art Fair’, in collaboration with M+R Gallery, London
‘Book Corner at Frieze Lounge’ exhibition design for Frieze Art Fair, London
‘Plans for Other Days’ exhibition with Janfamily , Lungomare Gallery Bozen
‘Martino, Rainer, Maki & Kajsa say: Guten Apetitt’, Design Mai, Berlin
‘Britain Loves Fashion’, traveling exhibition British Council Chongqing, China

2004
‘We Connect’, with åbäke at Studio Camuffo, Venezia
‘10 X 10’, 100% design, Earls Court, London
‘What Martino did between 2000-2004’, Book exhibition at M+R Gallery, London
‘A40’ carpet exhibition at Aram Gallery, London
‘Some Furniture I’ve Always Wanted to Make’, M+R Gallery, London*

2003
‘Inside-out’, Lungomare Gallery, Bozen
‘Oxo Peugeot Design Awards’, Oxo Tower, London
‘Walking Carpet’, Village Fete, with Eddy Mundy, V&A, Pirelli Gardens, London
‘Waste to Taste’, Sotheby’s, London
‘The Book Corner’, traveling exhibition, Vilnius book fair, Vilnius, Lithuania
‘Design-UK’, Viaduct shop, London

2002
‘Book Corner’, traveling exhibition, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
‘Woodlands’, installation, Bloomberg Headquarters, London
‘Book Corner’, traveling exhibition, Art & Photograph Gallery, London
‘Coming Home’, light installation, Design Museum, London
‘Book Corner’ traveling exhibition, British council, Milano

2001
‘Bricolage’, installation, MAK, Wien
‘We Make Remake’, Village Fete - V&A, Pirelli gardens, London
‘Ex-position’, CitŽe des Arts, Paris
‘Lost and Found’, British Council exhibition, Kulturhuset Stockholm
‘Eleven’,138 Kingsland Rd, London