Massimiliano Adami - Fossil Magma October 28, 2009

The project MINI & Triennale CreativeSet presents Fossil Magma by Massimiliano Adami. November 4 to December 8, 2009. The exhibition documents Massimiliano Adami's work at the intersection of design, art and handicraft. Adami's approach is strongly characterized by an aesthetic perspective, while at the same time demonstrating an experimental attitude leading to the constant recycling and transformation of new and heterogeneous materials. The protagonists of this exhibition are modern fossils: Sideboards, closets, lamps, glasses and vases. These objects, born of the refuse of our consumerist society (detergent containers, bottles, toys, computer and television skeletons), are immersed in a polyurethane magma, and the authentic marks of our everyday life are impressed upon them. By employing an assemblage technique, Adami reconstructs and restores meaning to these objects. He transforms them from refuse into resources, returning their form and function by mixing their colors, textures and materials. Adami perceives the traces of our existence and converts them into fossils, creating an original domestic scenery in the process.