What Martino Gamper did between two thousand and Thursday 17th May 2012

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
**Donotes catalogue

2011/
‘Condominium’, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, IT*
‘Reason Design Emotion’, Beijing International Design Triennial, China
‘MetaDomestic’, Landesgalerie, Linz, AT
‘Totem & Taboo’, Museums Quartier, Wien, AT
‘Glass Scene’, Villa Noailles, Hyres, FR
‘KnowHow’, Campbell Works, London, UK
‘Gesamtkunsthandwerk’, a collaboration with Martino Gamper, Francis Upritchard, Karl Fritsch, Govett Brewster, New Plymouth, NZ
‘Overlap’, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
‘New Olds’, Design Museum Holen, Il

2010/
‘100 Chairs en 100 Jours de 100 Maniѐres’, Englise Saint-Pierre, Site Le Corbusier de Firminy, FR*
‘Bart Wells Boutique’, 235 Brompton Road, UK
‘TechnoCRAFT’, YBCA, San Francisco, USA
‘Book Show’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
‘Get It Louder, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou’, British Council, London, UK
‘Profusion’, Calke Abbey, Derbyshire, UK
‘Totem and Taboo, Sant’ Ambrogio, Milan, IT**
‘Design By Performance’, Z33, Hasselt, BE
‘Keep Your Seat’, GAM, Torino, Italy**
‘21×21’, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, IT

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

2008/
‘Nowhere Now Here Now’, LABoral, Gijón-Asturias, ES**
‘Mollino-Gamper, Frieze Art Fair, Salon 94, London, UK
‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’, Somerset House, London, UK**
‘Inspirations’, Conran, London, UK
‘Undiszipliniert’, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AU**
‘Flight of the Dodo’, Project, Dublin, IE
‘Manifesta7’, Fortezza/ Fanzensfeste, IT
‘Here There and Everywhere’, Leeds Met, Leeds, UK
‘Receiving’, Wright, Chicago, USA*
‘Designer of the Future’, Design Miami, Basel, CH
‘Salone del Mobile’, Nilufar Gallery, Milano, IT
‘Total Trattoria’, The Aram Gallery, London, UK*
‘Designer of the Year’, Design Museum, London, UK – winner of furniture category**
‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, CH**

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Bibliography:

“Piccolo Volume II”
Self published book by Dent-de-Leone, Designed by åbäke,

“ Total Trattoria, food follows furniture”
Self published book by Dent-de-Leone, Designed by åbäke,

“ 100 chairs in 100 days in 100 ways”,
Self published book by Dent-de-Leone, Designed by åbäke,

“Confronting the Chair” exhibition Catalogue Design Museum 2006

“What Martino Gamper did between 2000-2004″ October 2004
Self published book in collaboration with åbäke,
“Corners, place to be contained within”, June 2000
Self published book RCA in collaboration with Caroline Kurz.