Introducing Roberto Capucci METAPHORS. THE WONDER OF FORM at Triennale

Simona Cochi introducing one of the most awaited fashion solo art shows scheduled during this not so joyful period.
Till the 9th of January 2022. Must to see event in Milan.
Roberto Capucci, a forerunner of contemporaneity and tireless experimenter to whom the Milan Triennale and the Cologni Foundation for the professions of art are dedicating the exhibition "Metaphors. Roberto Capucci: the wonders of form ». Part of the cycle of four exhibitions organized by the two institutions

FONDAZIONE ROBERTO CAPUCCI & TRIENNALE

to offer an unprecedented point of view on contemporary applied arts, the exhibition, which can be visited until next January 9, presents the
curatorship of Gian Luca Bauzano, in collaboration with the Roberto Capucci Foundation and the Rometti ceramics manufacture, from which comes the collection of sculptures designed by the couturier in dialogue with the clothes on display.

«This exhibition, in an exhibition space dedicated to design like the Triennale, celebrates a double anniversary. The 70 years since the first Italian fashion show, which took place in Florence on February 12, 1951, and since Capucci's debut »,
Gian Luca Bauzano explained to MFF. For the installation he imagined a narration that traces the decades of activity of the Roman fashion house through a selection of creations. In the center, one of the 12 works proposed at the 1995 Venice Biennale, entitled Diaspro, and on its sides, as in a Wunderkammer, dresses that highlight the inexhaustible research on shapes, such as the dress with a box line or one in silk and plastic from the mid-60s, but also the use of new materials such as rope, stones, bamboo and brass. In dialogue with sketches, tables for the choice of colors and a picture gallery dedicated to illustrations by the designer, against purple walls, his favorite color.

"Capucci's legacy today is expressed in the vocation to experiment with shapes, materials and colors with a variety of means, recognizable in the creations of Martin Margiela, Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto and Hussein Chalayan, just to name a few", he added Bauzano, recalling how the search for expressive freedom by means of fabric has always been fundamental for Capucci, an artist with an independent personality who in the 1980s decided not by chance to retire from the catwalks of a system increasingly suited to prêt-à-porter. And in a capital of the sector like Milan, "a comprehensive fashion museum is necessary, but it will only be possible on the condition that national players develop the awareness of telling about themselves in a cohesive way", concluded the curator.

CERAMICHE ROMETTI

A processing technique that has its roots in the very soil of Umbria, makes Rometti ceramics unique. Clay collected from the Sansepolcro quarries, used centuries ago by the Etruscans for their ceramic art, reveals its magic in the craftsmen’s expert hands. Rometti has given new luster to the ancient working of the potters’ wheel, a work still present in the region and in the DNA of the few artisans who guard the secrets of this primordial bond with clay.
In such a climate of cultural ferment as that of the avant-garde of the early twentieth century, the dream to be realized already had a precise and ambitious form; Rometti would become a synthesis of art, craftsmanship and industrial production; a new way of interpreting expressiveness and enhancing the potential of ceramics.