Riccardo Dalisi - The Chickpea Chair
Riccardo Dalisi - The Chickpea Chair
| Author | Gabriele Neri |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Corraini Edizioni |
| ISBN | 9791254930588 |
| Idea Code | 23828 |
Architect, designer and artist, in the early 1970s Riccardo Dalisi encouraged street children in the Rione Traiano, Naples, to design small furniture and architectural elements, using simple and 'design ultrapoverissimo’ materials such as wood, string and metal wires. "La sedia del cece" (The Chickpea Chair) is a work by a very small girl, Rosa, on whose interpretation various artists and intellectuals, including Andy Warhol, Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass and Enzo Mari, drew. This volume - produced on the occasion of the exhibition "Riccardo Dalisi. Radicalmente”, curated by Gabriele Neri at the MAXXi in Rome - collects many of the drawings made by the artists prompted by Dalisi, and together with texts by architects and critics such as Stefano Boeri, Domitilla Dardi, Paolo Deganello, Fulvio Irace, Ugo La Pietra, Franco Purini and Angela Tecce, it becomes a manifesto of his "modus operandi".
| 144 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English |
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