Ro PLASTIC-MASTER’S PIECES era uno degli appuntamenti di Ro GUILTLESSPLASTIC 2019, il progetto internazionale lanciato da Rossana Orlandi per stimolare la comunità del design sul tema tanto dibattuto della plastica. Inaugurata il 6 aprile 2019, la mostra ha visto artisti di fama mondiale che hanno creato pezzi unici utilizzando plastica riciclata. L’installazione è stata curata da Studio Vudafieri • Saverino Partners presso il Padiglione Ferroviario del Museo Scienza e Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci”.
2019, dal 6 al 14 aprile
IN CARATTERISTICA
Massimiliano Adami – William Amor – Nacho Carbonell – Matteo Cibic – Enrico Marone Cinzano – Jacopo Foggini – Formafantasma – Barnaba Fornasetti – Maurizio Galimberti – Jaime Hayon – Piet Hein Eek – Studio Job – Piero Lissoni – Massimiliano Locatelli – Fernando Mastrangelo – Alessandro Mendini – Lucio Micheletti – Brodie Neill – Fabio Novembre – Italo Rota – James Shaw – Studio Nucleo – Patricia Urquiola – Dirk Vander Kooij – Tiziano Vudafieri – Marcel Wanders – Nika Zupanc
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MASSIMILIANO ADAMI | Meteora
Light sculpture composed of a body made of polyurethane foam with drowned re-used plastic objects. Sectioning transforms some of the objects into places where fluorescent or led light sources can be inserted while some other are elongated to the ground, becoming supports…
Year:
2016
Materials:
Plastic objects, polyurethane foam, LED lights and lantern
Dimension:
130 cm. diameter, 170/190 cm height
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WILLIAM AMOR | Railway flowers
Art installation of spontaneous flowers between the museum’s railway.
A bed of poppies, cornflowers and wild flowers made from plastic bags, fishing nets and abandoned ropes present our poetic signature: the metamorphosis of plastic pollution into precious…
Year:
2019
Materials:
Plastic bags
Dimension:
15 to 30 cm
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NACHO CARBONELL | Re-revolution
10 years ago we starting our relationship with Rossana Orlandi Gallery, she offers Nacho a space to present his new work. At that moment he came with the collection Evolution. “Living in an era where we are saturated with information, the Evolution Collection…
Year:
2019
Materials:
Metal frame and recycle packaging plastic
Dimension:
72 x 152 x 129 cm
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MATTEO CIBIC | Cabinet-oh!
Matteo Cibic designed a collection of small furnitures – colorful coffee tables and cabinets – produced in 100% waste (panels made of recycle plastic coming from the unprocessed waste). Thanks to the patented Eco-Oh! machine and processes, and brass casted details….
Year:
2019
Materials:
Metal frame and recycle packaging plastic
Dimension:
177 x 50 x 160 cm
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ENRICO MARONE CINZANO | Tronco
This coffee table is composed of a handmade material, using as a raw material exclusively recycled plastic. In the specific case of this project, the base is Black Dapple, material produced with cutting boards and plastic wrappings….
Year:
2019
Materials:
Black dapple, wooden block of Mediterranean maritime pine cascaded naturally after a storm
Dimension:
95 x 70 x 50 cm
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JACOPO FOGGINI | Acquerello
While working for the family business, Jacopo Foggini discovers the versatile nature of methacrylate, a material generally used in the production of car reflectors. Enchanted by the
aesthetical and chromatic qualities of this thermoplastic resin….
Year:
2019
Materials:
Thermoplastic resin
Dimension:
60 x 120 cm
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FORMAFANTASMA | Botanica
The objects displayed in the Botanica collection are designed as if the oil-based era, in which we are living, never took place. Studio Formafantasma investigated the pre- Bakelite period, discovering unexpected textures, sensations and technical….
Year:
2011
Materials:
Polymeric materials, ceramic
Dimension:
23 x 33 cm
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BARNABA FORNASETTI | Fornasettiana Remix
I decided to take part in GuiltlessPlastic because it deserves credit for having led designers to deal with the need to turn rubbish into resources, instead of disposing of it, as has been the case up until now, in line with a linear economy model that is no longer sustainable…
Year:
2019
Materials:
Regenrated polystyrene
Dimension:
200 x 200 cm
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MAURIZIO GALIMBERTI | Flowers in Plastic emotion
The work wants to be a dialogue between Photography (film), and its “support” THE CHARGER.
THE CHARGER who is normally thrown away when he is empty of films, in my work he becomes the protagonist and converses with the film that he usually contains and that’s all…
Year:
2019
Materials:
Regenrated polystyrene
Dimension:
70 x 100 cm
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JAIME HAYON | XXX
Ro Plastic – Master’s Pieces is the exhibition curated by Rossana Orlandi with unique and unpublished works created exclusively for the project, in recycled plastic, by artists, designers and architects of world renown who aims to demonstrate that the use and reuse aware of….
Year:
2019
Materials:
Recycled polyester yarn
Dimension:
180 x 250 cm
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PIET HEIN EEK | Electronic man
Piet Hein Eek (1967) graduated in 1990 from the Design Academy in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, with his now classic Cupboard in Scrapwood. In 1992, together with Nob Ruijgrok, he founded Eek & Ruijgrok B.V. and opened a factory in Geldrop,….
Year:
2019
Materials:
Plastic made electronic components
Dimension:
160 x 190 x 130 cm
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STUDIO JOB | Ciao Sandro
Earlier this year Rossana called us and told us about this project and I thought; plastic is bronze – interesting. I think those industrial rotation moulded products like jerry cans and buckets, aesthetically are perfectly designed, they are beautiful and….
Year:
2019
Materials:
Bronze, plastic
Dimension:
82 x 37 x 145 cm
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PIERO LISSONI | Clastic-Plastic
The architect, designer and art director Piero Lissoni (1956), after graduating from the Politecnico di Milano, founded the Milan based interdisciplinary studio Lissoni Associati in 1986 together with Nicoletta Canesi, developing architecture, interior and industrial design projects.
Year:
2019
Materials:
Dimension:
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MASSIMILIANO LOCATELLI | Breuer Chair
Marcel Breuer married traditional craftsmanship with industrial methods and materials to help make tubular steel furniture an international sensation, and a modern institution. The cantilevered form exploits the unique possibilities of the material….
Year:
2019
Materials:
Plastic bottle, steel
Dimension:
60 x 46 x 82 cm
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FERNANDO MASTRANGELO | Tombstone Chair
I want to create an exaggerated tombstone-like object that people sit on to understand the gravity of the plastic catastrophe that we’re faced with. Made entirely of blue plastic to draw peoples attention and positioned in front of a train…
Year:
2019
Materials:
Recycled plastic pellets
Dimension:
61 x 61 x 345 cm
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ALESSANDRO MENDINI | Alex Chaise Longue
Alessandro Mendini (1931–2019) was born in Milan. As a boy, he lived in a bourgeois house designed by Piero Portaluppi. It was full of fascinating paintings by Alberto Savinio, Gino Severini, Massimo Campigli, Giorgio Morandi and the many other artists present…
Year:
2017
Materials:
Maxi-flake Irregular LDPE, 95% recycled plastic – polyethylene
Dimension:
170 x 83 x 83 cm
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LUCIO MICHELETTI | Victory
A work to watch in silence.
Many languages can be learned, but silence is the prerogative of few.
A simple message, made only of a recognizable and familiar form,…
Year:
2019
Materials:
Recycled plastic, wood
Dimension:
44 x 40 x 34 cm
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BRODIE NEILL | “Capsule” Ocean Plastic Hourglass
Three hourglasses are presented at the exhibition, each containing microplastics from different parts of the world: Neill’s original home Tasmania, his main plastic collection point Hawaii and Sardinia, the location that inspired the Guiltless Plastic exhibition…
Year:
2019
Materials:
Glass, microplastics from different parts of the world
Dimension:
ø 15 x 30 cm
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FABIO NOVEMBRE | Jolly Roger
Not good in drawing, but he has exceptional writing skills. Fabio Novembre is born in Puglia and he considers himselfes as an “Architectural anarchic”. Since 1994, he is been running his own studio trying to match life style and design philosophy….
Year:
2019
Materials:
Dimension:
74 x 74 x 85 cm
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ITALO ROTA | Jolly Roger
Not good in drawing, but he has exceptional writing skills. Fabio Novembre is born in Puglia and he considers himselfes as an “Architectural anarchic”. Since 1994, he is been running his own studio trying to match life style and design philosophy….
Year:
2019
Materials:
Dimension:
74 x 74 x 85 cm
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JAMES SHAW |
Plastic Waste is one of the biggest issues in modern life, I believe we need to shift the perception of this material from ‘waste’ to resource. This is why initiatives such as Rossana Orlandi’s Guiltless Plastic which shows the beauty and usefulness of these materials are so important….
Year:
2019
Materials:
Waste
Dimension:
40 x 25 x 170 cm
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STUDIO NUCLEO | “Stones” consolle
Start the change beginning from its own behave, opportunity into the daily environment. Nucleo participates in Guiltless Plastic with Rossana Orlandi and Ro Plastic-Master’s Pieces with the project Stones.
Nucleos work can be described as an investigation of time-frames;….
Year:
Materials:
epoxy resin, epoxy resin sawdust, wood sawdust, pigments
Dimension:
29 × 103 x 80 cm
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PATRICIA URQUIOLA | Wasting time daybed
My ancestors were sneakers and I’m genderless.
I speak my own language,….
Year:
2019
Materials:
Recycled material
Dimension:
139 x 110 x 76 cm
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DIRK VANDER KOOIJ | The melting pot
The melting pot as a requirement, the studio waste solution. Through labour and innovation, recycled plastic can be beautiful and The melting pot as a requirement, a studio waste solution: The melting pot began as a refuse for studio waste: its stoic form functioning as….
Year:
2019
Materials:
Discarded 3D printed material
Dimension:
120 x 73 cm
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TIZIANO VUDAFIERI | Wilhelm lamp
The Wilhelm Lamp was born out of Tiziano Vudafieri’s passion for the German designer:”Wilhelm Wagenfeld was the only Bauhaus master to apply this movement’s utopia to real life, invading the market after World War II….
Year:
2019
Materials:
light fitting material – recycled polycarbonate by Lati, material structure – iron (by YDF),
Dimension:
ø180 x 156 cm
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MARCEL WANDERS | Re-use bottle composition
Reusing objects removes the guilt of throwing them away. As modernism considers the past irrelevant, there is a concern and question regarding the disposable nature of the things we create today. To express his opposition to an increasingly apathetic, throw away culture,….
Year:
2019
Materials:
Plastic bottle
Dimension:
50 x 30 cm
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NIKA ZUPANC | Tic Tac clockcomposition
”The project discusses the pollution of the oceans through an object with a strong symbolic meaning — a clock, reminding us, that the time to really act upon this extremely important issue is upon us. The iconic object, which represents the past….
Year:
2019
Materials:
Recycled plastics
Dimension:
50 x 30 cm