We are happy to share impressions from the exhibition “Reflections on Disturbances between Boundaries”, with new works by all of our designers
The opening times for the exhibition are
Thursday – Saturday 12:00 – 19:00
and by appointment.
For appointments please contact:
labinac.napoli@gmail.comWe are looking forward to seeing you there!
It is with great pleasure that Fonderia Nolana Del Giudice together with LABINAC announce the opening of the exhibition dedicated to the memory of the artist and designer Riccardo Dalisi, in Via Crispi 69, on 19 January 2023, from 17:00 to 20:00, titled
Reflections on Disturbances between Boundaries
The presence of the word “reflections” in the title refers to a specific object that we asked the various designers to interpret through their own practice for this exhibition: the mirror. The mirror, that metal plate that was created to faithfully reproduce our image, has now become an iconic object, of which we practically all own one. For this show a few designers from the collective have worked with the concept of reflections and develop it according to their own artistic and expressive style.
For further information please refer to our pressrelease in English and Italian.
The new opening times for the exhibition
“De-growth Design: A Tribute to Riccardo Dalisi”
are
Thursday – Saturday 12:00 – 19:00
and by appointment.
For appointments please contact:
labinac.napoli@gmail.com
It is with great pleasure that Fonderia Nolana Del Giudice together with LABINAC announce the opening of the exhibition dedicated to the memory of the artist and designer Riccardo Dalisi, in Via Crispi 69, on 29 September 2022, from 12:00 to 20:00, titled
Il design dell decrescita:
Un omaggio a Riccardo Dalisi
De-growth Design:
A Tribute to Riccardo Dalisi
The exhibition will present 26 unique design works by Dalisi, almost all original prototypes, that were generously loaned by Atelier Dalisi.
Riccardo Dalisi was a designer who always knew how to combine work on an industrial scale with the artisanal. An artist tout court, it could be said, whose work ranged from design, in the strict sense, to the free interpretation of the artist as more commonly understood. Each artistic possibility was used by him in a special and absolutely unique way, giving a profound meaning to whatever he created.
In the selection of the objects that are on display the joyful and playful aspect of the Dalisian approach to design becomes evident. Experimentation on and with the material results in elaborate shapes, and becomes one of the designer’s distinctive features.
Riccardo Dalisi’s works in the show interact in continuity and in a game of references with works by LABINAC, the complete the exhibition.
For further information please refer to our pressrelease in English and Italian.
It is with great pleasure that Fonderia Nolana Del Giudice together with LABINAC announce the opening of the second exhibition entirely dedicated to LABINAC in Naples, in Via Crispi 69, on 4 July 2022, from 16:00 to 20:00, titled
Life of the Applied
with designs by Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmie Durham, Rosaria Iazzetta, Jone Kvie, Philipp Modersohn, Alessandro Piromallo, Víctor Santamarina and Elisa Strinna.
From the very beginning our intention for LABINAC in Naples has been to create a place where objects become free of conceived singularities, through experimentation, new artistic production, as well as encounters and activities in the city. The space is ever evolving, as ever evolving as the objects that live within in it.
For this second show, LABINAC continues to investigate the boundless possibilities of materials and does so with the participation of two new artists: Rosaria Iazzetta and Víctor Santamarina.
For further information please refer to our pressrelease in English and Italian.
We are proud to announce that LABINAC takes part in the Milano Design Week as part of Wall&decò with CARTEdition by AtemporaryStudio at ALCOVA.
Since the beginning Labinac loved to experiment and challenge itself with new projects and this year we had the change to work on/with a new material for us: Wallpaper!
The project was realized thanks to our collaboration with Wall&decò and CARTEdition by AtemporaryStudio.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Milano.
photos (C): Silvia Rivoltella
It is with great pleasure that Fonderia Nolana Del Giudice together with LABINAC announce the opening of a space entirely dedicated to LABINAC in Naples, in Via Crispi 69.
To open somewhere that could be used as a shop, with Fonderia Nolana’s partnership with LABINAC, and which would also have a cultural approach and become a meeting place for debate and
open discussion on what it means today to make and deal with design, had long been a project and desire of the collective, and particularly in the mind of the two founders. So when Jimmie Durham left us this past year in November there was never any doubt about the intention to carry on, and indeed to stimulate the implementation of the program.
This exhibition aims primarily to be a tribute to Jimmie Durham himself, as an artist, thinker and friend in research and experimentation within the collective. A Stick in the Forest, the title of the exhibition,
were Durham’s last thoughts before he passed away and it is from these that LABINAC began to design the concept of the exhibition.
Jimmie encourages us to sit down on the ground of the forest and to be in a state of wonder, so that a dialogue can begin with a stick. Perhaps it becomes a leg for a table or an element in a chandelier. Or
you get up and a dog crosses your path and with interest eyes your stick – a gift to be given, and perhaps the beginning of a friendship. The exhibition not only pays homage to Jimmie’s work through
presenting some of his objects, including PINO Tables, Arboletier Chandelier and Baroco-co Salonetto (designed with Alves), but also through the evocation of his culture of origin, his particular irreverence and peculiarity in the use of materials (wood, colors, bones, stones, and other elements) that become ironic and critical at the same time, in a constant game of mirrors between “culture” and “nature”.
In the rooms dedicated to the exhibition are objects of various kinds, designed by Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmie Durham, Jone Kvie, Philipp Modersohn, Alessandro Piromallo and Elisa Strinna.
This space is inaugurated in the hope that it will become something more than simply a place to admire and acquire, and, above all, be a new meeting point in the city that can broaden the cultural debate around the arts and design.
On Wednesday November 17th Jimmie Durham, one of LABINAC’s founders and designers, peacefully passed away in his sleep after struggling with many medical ailments in the last months.
This portrait of Jimmie was taken about a month ago in Naples, Italy. In front of Jimmie, a table full of objects and materials.
“I enjoy them as they interrupt and intervene in my thought process and often make me smarter” he stated.
Jimmie is leaving a huge gap in our hearts, minds and spirits and is missed immensely. To honour him LABINAC will continue to carry on Jimmie’s visions for design through our objects and projects.
Photo by @fabriziocicconi_ph
We are pleased to announce the opening of the show
Collective design started by Maria Thereza Alves and Jimmie Durham, LABINAC
in show at Michel Rein’s Gallery in Paris from November 6th, 2021 until January 8th, 2022.
Alves and Durham are thrilled to present a selection of new works from the LABINAC collective for the first time in France: tables, chairs, benches, lights and interior design elements such as vases, and stone and glass lamps, which could capture natural light.
The deep research into materials and their possible use and approach is the key to their experimentation, the desire to play with the different solution and the lives of each single object is the core of their work.
Salvaged and new materials intertwine giving life to objects that seem to be destined to have no clear temporal definition.
Please find additional information here: Michel Rein
