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

Stand design by Martino Gamper:
Kate MacGarry at Frieze Art Fair, Stand E11
Regent’s Park, London
14 - 17 October 2010

Photosⓒ Andy Stagg
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Bart Wells Boutique
235 Brompton Road
London SW3 2EP

Thu 7, Fri 8, Sat 9, Wed 13, Thu 14, Fri 15,
Sat 16, Fri 22 and Sat 23 October 2010 12 - 6pm

With Sam Basu, Stuart Cumberland, Brian Griffiths, Luke Gottelier,
Sophie von Hellermann, Des Hughes, Peter McDonald, Paul Noble,
Harry Pye, Caragh Thuring, Francis Upritchard, Anita Witek, Rose Wylie
and a Dent-de-Leone bookshop. Curated by Luke Gottelier and Francis Upritchard

Book Show
Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
3 Jul – 4 Sep 2010

Nina Beier + Marie Lund, Ulises Carrión, Daniel Eatock, Martino Gamper, Nina Katchadourian, Moritz Kung + Richard Venlet, Kelly Large, John Latham, Fraser Muggeridge Studio, Rollo Press, Katerina Šedá + Radim Peško, Yann Sérandour, Simon Starling, Werkplaats Typografie, Keith Wilson

Curated by James Langdon and Gavin Wade

Eastside Projects

TechnoCRAFT
Jul 6 – Oct 3, 2010
YBCA, San Francisco, USA

TechnoCRAFT explores how the boundary between the role of the designer and the consumer is disappearing. Curated by acclaimed designer Yves Behar, the exhibition traces the current trend in design away from fixed objects toward open “design platforms” that invite people to participate in the creative process. Selected works span the spectrum from intentionally collaborative (such as platforms where individuals can customize their products) to outsider hacks, where “finished” products are adapted or modified by the user. Special attention is paid to the intersection of technology and craft that encourages an unprecedented level of user participation with profound implications for the future of design and experience making.
taken from the press release

YBCA

Profusion
19 Jun – 11 Jul 2010
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire, UK

Curated by Sotiris Kyriacou and John Plowman

Anna Barham, Karla Black, Marcel Broodthaers, Lucy Clout, Clem Crosby, Jimmie Durham, Mark Fairnington, Doug Fishbone,Martino Gamper, Roger Hiorns, John Plowman, Daniel Silver, Harald Smykla, Jack Strange

Beacon Art Project presents ‘Profusion’, an exhibition inspired by the unique setting of Calke Abbey, a National Trust property in Derbyshire. Hidden away in a hollow within an ancient deer park, Calke’s interiors and outbuildings are filled with the accumulation of years of collecting and hoarding by its eccentric and reclusive owners. Containing a diverse selection of household objects, artefacts, precious heirlooms and collections of natural history, Calke is now preserved in a state of atmospheric decline, as it was found when the Trust took it over in 1985.

‘Profusion’ presents especially commissioned and existing works by twelve acclaimed international artists, exploring themes and ideas pivotal to the exhibition’s context.

Calke’s rambling contents declare their fragility and materiality, emphasising a heightened sense of physicality and entropy. The house is purposely presented in a way that disregards established hierarchies, taxonomies and methods of display, celebrating instead the glorious disarray of a rich diversity of objects and artefacts and their testimony to the passage of time.

Calke emphasises multiple viewpoints and possibilities within a framework of interconnectedness. It embraces the tentativeness of imposed categories, highlighting their relativity and debunking presumptions regarding the containment and representation of knowledge.
taken from the press release

Beacon Art Project

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Learning While Performing, Performing While Learning
Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
28 May - 30 May 2010

Within the framework of Design by Performance Martino Gamper develops the performance Learning While Performing, Performing While Learning.

From Friday 28 May to Sunday 30 May a performance by designer Martino Gamper (ITA) takes place at Z33 in Hasselt (Belgium). In this performance Gamper will take on the role of an apprentice in a woodturning studio.

Under the professional guidance of the Flemish Woodturning Guild he will submerge himself in this traditional technique. The learning process will be put up as an act, in which the transmission of knowledge is central. The origin of woodturning dates to around 1300BC when the Egyptians first developed the necessary tools for this. The technique has been around for ages and has been perfected by many important civilizations. During this performance he will try his luck at this age-old traditional custom.

Gamper’s practice derives from an abiding interest in the psycho-social aspects of design. Curiosity is also an important aspect of Gamper’s work (100 chairs in 100 days, furniture while you wait, …), as is also the case with Learning While Performing, Performing While Learning.

The performance will be held during the last weekend of the exhibition “Design by Performance”. This exhibition focuses on the increase of performance and performativity in design. Gamper developed this performance especially for Z33 to match with this exhibition.

The performance by Martino Gamper will also coincide with the last day of Borderline, the Cumulus Conference Belgium (May 26-29). This conference wishes to explore and experience the various facets of borderlines and how limits and limitations are overcome. Cumulus is the international association of universities and colleges of art, design and media.

taken from the press release

Z33
Images © Matylda Krzykowski
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Martino in Milano 2010

The Sense of Fanciful at Nilufar Gallery
13 April - 30 May
32 via della Spiga

Martino presents Sessel at Established & Sons
14 - 18 April
Via Palermo 10

Martino presents Vigna at Magis
14 - 19 April
Salone de Mobile
Hall 12 Stand C01 - D02

Sit Down - Seating for Kids
6 Feb - 5 Sep 2010
Museum of Childhood, London

A stunning Marble Floor display, fresh from the John Madejski Garden at the V&A, commissioned by Wallpaper* for the annual London Design Festival in 2009. The double arch, made from 70 Ercol stacking chairs, was created by leading designer Martino Gamper, and is inspired by the very first Chair Arch, which was constructed in 1877 to celebrate Queen Victoria’s visit to High Wycombe.

The beautiful stacking chairs, made from beech and ash, were originally designed in 1956 for use in schools. Engineers Atelier One have constructed the sweeping organic form, which resembles a giant spine, using a dazzling array of rainbow colours.

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In collaboration with Wallpaper* Magazine, Ercol and Atelier One

21×21: 21 artisti per il 21°
24 Mar - 31 Aug 2010
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

Design by Performance 

14 Mar - 30 May 2010
Z33, Hasselt Belgium

The boundaries between art and experimental design are becoming ever more blurred. Z33 
already focused on this phenomenon in ‘Designing Critical Design’, which featured 
designers who introduce a critical viewpoint on design and on their own practice. 
’Design by Performance’ is a showcase for performative trends in contemporary design. 
The exhibition doesn’t focus on finished products, but on the production process itself: 
objects whose realisation is a continuous project, affected or formed by either the 
environment, the specific situation they are placed in, or the audience / visitors. 
Processes and performances constitute a crucial part of Design by Performance, lending 
the exhibition an unpredictable and transformative character, and converting what is 
otherwise a static ‘exhibition space’ into a space open to action and change.

Participants
Atelier NL (NL), Maarten Baas (NL),  Pieke Bergmans (NL),  David Bowen (USA), Oscar Diaz (UK), Edhv (NL), Front (Sw), Martino Gamper (UK), Simon Heijdens (UK/NL), Eric Klarenbeek (NL), Sofie Lachaert & Luc d’Hanis (B), Laurent Liefooghe (B), Lawrence Malstaf (B), Bruno Munari (IT), Markus Schinwald (Au), Studio Glithero (UK), Studio Libertiny (NL), Tjep. (NL), Unfold & Tim Knapen (B)

Z33