Opening the 16th of april 2008 from 6 - 10 pm
Curator Paola Colombari
Sponsored by BUZZONI
*Karim Rashid Party - the 16th of april - Lightlounge from 11.00 pm
Organized by Stefania Scarcella , PR. Maurice Dotta
via Tito Speri ang via Maroncelli 8 - 20154 Milano
T.+39.02.62690631 [email protected]
Maurice +39.335.275509 [email protected]
Sponsored by BUZZONI - Karim Rashid's Installations
For the 2008 Milan Furniture Fair, the Gallery Edizioni Paola Colombari proudly
presents "Karim Rashid Blobulous", a solo exhibition by Karim Rashid, opening the
16th of april. The exhibition¹s futuristic title focuses on the ephemeral, organic theme
of the next millennium. Karim Rashid, international leading figure in different fields,
design, and architecture, is famous worldwide for having created objects such as the
Umbra Oh Chair, is considered a striking chararcter in the new approach to contemporary
design. Karim exploits the possibilities of the digital age and by doing so has
created a new expression of de-symbolization that can be recognized in his entire
work rage from product to architecture to fashion to music.
The installation composed by six Blob chairs made of fiberglass in powerful colours
as Blue-Pink, Chrome-Orange, Chrome-Pink, Pink, Lime- Black, Pink-Black.The
chairs testify with the organic, curvy forms that if freedom had a form it would be a
never-ending undulating boundless, biomorphic, shape that is in perpetual motion.
Form follows Fluid. In a post-industrial house our conditions will be more relaxed,
softer and blobular, where our experiences will be more hypertextual and less
linear. The blobchair speaks to the new casualism that is feeding our ever changing
and shifting global lifestyles. Blob Architecture may shape our environments;
organic systems will change our paradigms, and Organomics may shape the objects
with touch everyday.
