ENG: GOTHICAE COGITATIONES is a project by Gianfranco Setzu and Monica Casu. It describes the gothic thoughts deriving from the state of mind of inadequacy and restlessness that lingers in our time, recalling the obscurantism and the denied freedom of the Middle Ages. It is precisely the Middle Ages in its Gothic declination that influenced our simple and direct graphic motifs, which with sarcasm and irony evoke the more or less explicit idea of the transience of life. The project takes its shape in the production of Washi Tape, the Japanese adhesive paper, which can be used to decorate furnishings, furniture and walls: with the simple gesture of affixing a new sign to existing objects, it reveals the will to regenerate the sense of what we have around us while we ask ourselves questions about the present. The objects thus convey a different narrative and a reviving cultural motif.
The CHOREA MACHABAEORUM – Dance of Death-, takes us back to the classic medieval theme where the living people danced with the dead ones. In this case the dead dance with the dead, in a sort of symbolic, but sarcastic apocalypse that mocks and almost welcomes the earthly misfortunes. A powerful theme in a simple object, which lends itself ironically to multiple levels of reading.
MALUM PER DIEM – An Apple a Day – if it apparently evokes the simplicity of everyday life, it essentially plays with the ambiguous and multiple symbology of the APPLE and its Latin translation. Symbol of eternal life, fruitfulness, inebriation, sin, and simulacrum of perfection infused with murdering poison for Snow White. An invitation to consume one’s daily apple, whole or buggy, one after the other, swallow and go on, as a metaphor of life.
The subjects of CHOREA MACHABAEORUM and MALUM PER DIEM will circulate for Milan during the Fuorisalone 2019.
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