This site uses cookies. Learn more
PL EN RU
  • Products
    Fabrics
    Trimmings
    Carpets
    Wallpapers
    Leather
    Nails and buttons
    Strips
    Threads
    Eyelets
    Collections
    • RUSTIQ
      VELUTTO
      DUSTY
    • PRATO
      FICELLE
      HARMONY
    • FLORALS
      COMO
      TRENZA
    • BREVE
      BUFFO
      ECLIPSE
    • MOLLIS FR
      VERNISSAGE
      LEATHER CRAFT II
  • Partners
  • About us
    • About us
    • History
    • News
    • Arts and culture
    • Dekoma's collaboration with Lab150
      29.01.2021
      Dekoma's collaboration with Lab150
      Our Christmas card with seeds
      21.12.2020
      Our Christmas card with seeds
    • KNOWLEDGE 

      SHARING

  • Trends
    • Trends
    • TRENDS

       
      Trends in fabric design do not change as quickly as they used to. The real excitement is hidden beneath the level of patterns and colours.

      read more


    • HEIMTEXTIL TRENDS 2021/22
      29.01.2021
      HEIMTEXTIL TRENDS 2021/22
      Long-term decisions
      26.11.2020
      Long-term decisions
    • Inspirations
    • Carpets
      Carpets
      Panels
      Panels
    • Blog
    • WOOLLEN ELITE
      26.01.2021
      WOOLLEN ELITE
      FUROSHIKI  THE MOST FAMOUS BUNDLE IN THE WORLD
      22.12.2020
      FUROSHIKI THE MOST FAMOUS BUNDLE IN THE WORLD
  • Tips
  • Careers
  • Contact
  • Favorites
  • Wish List
  • Search
  • Log in
  • Partner’s area
  • Customer Area
    • Partner’s area
    • Log in
/ News / "Protect and respect" - Alcantara & MAXXI

"Protect and respect" - Alcantara & MAXXI

30.10.2020
+ Favorites

Four authors, four masks to protect oneself and support the arts and culture

They’ve become part of our daily lives. We wear them like an unavoidable accessory. Out of legal obligation, but more out of respect for others, because the pandemic has taught us new ways of being together. And most of all, it has taught us what counts, what we have to appreciate and defend.

Andrea Anastasio - Beats/Battiti

This consideration has given rise to PROTECT AND RESPECT! an Alcantara initiative supporting the Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo (National Museum of Art of the XXIst Century) involving 4 artists - Andrea Anastasio, Gentucca Bini, Elena Salmistraro and Sissi - called upon to design filtering face masks in Alcantara®, whose proceeds are designated to cultural projects of the museum, gravely affected by the closure during the months of obligatory quarantine.

The result, for all intents and purposes, is an artistic production. The four designers, working in different disciplines (art, fashion, design), design objects that take off from their previous research on the symbolic and anthropological meaning of “masking”.

Andrea Anastasio, significant Roman artist and designer, fascinated by the study of the poetry of conceptual art and its potential convergences with industrial design, designs an iridescent butterfly with its wings attached along the opposite side. In his design, Battiti (Beats), the bivalve shape of the mask becomes an occasion to consider things in nature that have a symmetrical and mirrored morphology, from seashells to birds and butterflies. The design features two wings that are sewn on their long side, contrary to how they occur in nature, generating a hybrid that reflects on the action of the artificial on the natural world and its effects on the ecosystem.

Andrea Anastasio - Beats/Battiti

Gentucca Bini, Milanese stylist and designer, gives a wink to one of the rituals that we miss the most - the kiss - and does it with the wit that breaks conventions and gives unexpected results that defines her work. In her design, Kiss me Zorro, the component of identity play of the mask mixes with the protective component of the sanitary face mask. Typical costume of pop culture, here, Zorro is transformed into the hero of a story with a happy ending, where the goal is to protect others and ourselves without losing our sense of humour, with a spirit that combines cautiousness with fun.

Gentucci Bini - Kiss me Zorro

It has a brightly coloured soul and a meaning that delves into the cultural anthropology, Gargolla (Gargoyle), the mask created by Milanese designer and artist Elena Salmistraro. The talismanic and superstitious effect is one of the strongest weapons of symbolic communication of images. Gargoyles of Gothic cathedrals are a clear example: their static function in the engineering of the cathedrals is accompanied by the symbolic repulsion of evil. The design of the mask recalls that ancient purpose with a contemporary key, used here to exorcise an invisible malediction and protect us from its real harmful effects.

Elena Salmistraro - Gargoyle / Gargolla

Finally, Sissi (alias Daniela Olivieri) eclectic Bolognese artist and experimenter, whose research is characterised by a nearly scientific analysis of the human body and by the need to redesign forms.  The fantastic anatomies of the artist take possession of a mask with a design that lives at the limits between botanical life and bodily physicality: her Fioritura linguale (Lingual flowering) is a flower made of tongues that provokes thought about speech repressed or modified by the use of this protective device, making our communication less verbal and more symbolic.

SISI - Lingual flowering / Fioritura linguale

The authors worked together with the Alcantara R&D department, which developed ad hoc solutions to respond to the creative briefs and deliver as a result filtering face masks with precautionary purposes for the exclusive use of the general public : printed, laser cut, with different colours and patterns, the material once again proved itself a versatile medium, able to inspire and give form to creativity. True art prints for daily use, the masks show how the content of a cultural study can be useful in daily life, giving the wider public the possibility to “protect oneself with art”.

In order to buy a mask please contact us at marketing@dekoma.eu

https://www.maxxi.art/

Filtering masks with precautionary purposes for the exclusive use of the community (they do not constitute a Medical Device (MD) or a Personal Protection Device (PPD).

Partners
Alcantara
Agena
Koninck
Penelopeoggi
Moon
Cotting
Lignepure

Dekoma's partners offer 2186 products including: 1009 textile products, 400 wallpapers and 707 natural leathers.

Subscribe to our newsletter
To unsubscribe click here
podane adresy e-mail są niezgodne!
 
Showroom / Office

DEKOMA Sp. z o.o.
ul. Pszczelna 3, Zalasewo
62-020 Swarzędz
NIP: 777-25-16-492

+48 61 817 31 44

Our hotline is available weekdays from 8:00 to 16:00.

e-mail us

Office: office@dekoma.eu
Orders: orders@dekoma.eu

social media


Copyright © 2021 Dekoma Sp z o.o.
  • Terms and conditions
  • Privacy policy
  • Complaints
  • Partners
  • Newsletter

Favorites

Added to Favorites

Favorites
Wish List

Added to Wish List

Wish List
 

dodano próbkę do koszyka.

 
przeglądaj dalej
przejdź do koszyka
koszyk

do koszyka można dodać maksymalnie 5 próbek

nie możesz zamówić próbek. prawdopodobnie twoje poprzednie zamówienie nie zostało jeszcze zrealizowane.

chcąc otrzymać więcej niż 5 próbek prosimy o kontakt z naszym działem handlowym

Newsletter
Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter. To confirm your subscription, please check your e-mail.
Access denied

Your current authorisation level does not allow us to process this request. Please contact customer support.

Complete your profile

Complete the Tax Identification Number in your profile

kliknij tutaj aby przejść do edycji profilu

lub kliknij tutaj jeśli nie jesteś klientem dekoma