For the 55th edition of the Salone del Mobile in Milan, the Galleria Paola Colombari will dedicate a personal show to the designer Antonio
Cagianelli, titled “Cosmic Vanity”. The show will start on April 12th at the Design District in Maroncelli street 13, sponsored by Filmaster Group
and Abet Laminati. Antonio Cagianelli is now working on real Art-Design installations in which the classical concept of design is overcome
by “tridimensional metaphors”, to transmit the symbolic and metaphorical meaning of the whole work instead of the single piece of design
or furniture. Objects, pieces of furniture and jewelery are meant to transmit and communicate messages and meanings which reflect
the author’s personal view.
In his works, Antonio Cagianelli deals with the concept of Vanitas and of the fast passing of time.
These are metaphorical works dealing with nature-based themes like waves, flames, sea foam and, as in this show, themes coming
from the contamination between ancient myths and contemporary culture in a timeless continuity because Cagianelli thinks that the laws
that regulate man’s destiny haven’t changed.
This is the case for the “Fetonte” chandelier, produced in a limited edition by Gioara revolutionary design in silk-screen printed glass,
metaphor of the frailty of human actions and of the challenge of the sense of limit, and also metaphor of the concept of cosmic catastrophe
menacing today’s world.
Also displayed is the plexiglass and resin table “Pizzo e Mondrian” in which the play between the lace, extravagant and ornate material,
contrasts with the geometrical and constructivist implant of the table, composed as a Mondrian painting.
The ”Necropolitana” chair, in lacquered resin with applications of bones, skulls and shells, talks about Vanitas and archeology, telluric
revolutions and continuity between past and present.
The two “Fetonte” panels, printed by Abet Laminati with the allegorical motive which combines flames and stars, act as a theatrical stage
for the Pop universe’s play, outrageous and anarchist, which characterizes the unique work of Cagianelli.
