PAST FORWARD. Designers from the Land of Venice
(DESIGN AS SELF-PORTRAIT)
curated by Luca Berta and Francesca Giubilei

May 20 – June 27, 2021

Museo Archeologico
Piazza San Marco 17/52
Venezia

The works of 16 designers who live and work today in Venice and its territory are combined with the masterpieces of ancient art. The exhibition intends to embody the double gaze towards the past and the future that has always characterized Venice. That tight rope, oscillating between the cult of secular traditions and massive biennial assumptions of hyper-contemporaneity, on which the city walks with uncertain and enchanting acrobatics. Designers on show: AUT, Barbara Schweizer, Gaetano Di Gregorio, João Lacerda Moreira, JoeVelluto Design for Teraplast and W-Eye, Kanz, Lorenzo Mason, Lorenzo Truant for Phanes, Luca Nichetto for La Manufacture and Wittmann, Lucia Massari for SWING Design Gallery, Marco Zito for Saba and LYM, Massimo Barbierato, Matteo Cibic for Seeds, Matteo Zorzenoni for Nason Moretti, Omri Revesz for Riva 1920 and Cimento,  Zanellato / Bortotto for CC-Tipis and De Castelli, Zaven for Galleria Luisa Delle Piane.