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The Cartier Column Alessandro Mendini 10
Alessandro Mendini Alessandro Mendini is a trained architect and designer who was born in Milan in 1931. A partner in the Nizzoli firm and co-founder of the Global Tools alternative movement, he was successively editor-in-chief of the magazines Casabella, Modo, and the architecture magazine Domus. In the late 1970s he joined the Studio Alchimia and developed his theories on kitsch and the banal object. His career then built up around collaborations with firms such as Alessi, Venini, Philips, Bisazza and Swatch. In 1989 he created the studio Atelier Mendini. He is purposefully polyvalent and associates his work with interior design, painting, music and literature. Alessandro Mendini’s pieces invent, duplicate, superimpose and defy definition. His objects never resemble their function, they instead take the form of the feeling they elicit from us, thus making his work firmly anti-conventional. In 2002, the Fondation Cartier presented Alessandro Mendini’s most emblematic works in the exhibition Fragilisme, alongside a series of commissions that included the monumental Poltrona di Proust – a famous Regency armchair whose pointillist design has reappeared on various objects since 1978 – and the Petite Cathédrale, entirely covered in mosaic. He is currently creating the design for a Fondation Cartier exhibition; presented from May 13 to September 30, 2012, this thematic exhibition unites a selection of works often associated with self-taught art or art brut. 11
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