Estetiche Sommerse - Unveiling hidden beauty, in collaborazione con Fantini Mosaici

Park Associati presents Estetiche Sommerse – Unveiling hidden beauty, a set of two experimental works by the multidisciplinary design studio CARA \ DAVIDE, designed and created by invitation and with the production supervision of Park Associati, thanks to the collaboration of Fantini Mosaici. In the Park Hub exhibition space is shown evidence of the designers' interest in details that are the result of technical requirements and are observed with no aesthetic prejudices. Discarded printed circuit boards stacked in the back of a factory, a series of risers that have ended up in the waste basket of an atelier; these objects go unnoticed because they cannot be attributed to any predefined aesthetic canon, are hidden or lost, their existence reduced to their mere technical and functional value. A categorization dictated by a single point of view that CARA \ DAVIDE have set aside for the purpose of bringing out an impartial view of the submerged aesthetics of our time. Often used for the construction of terraces, the Venetian-style flooring within the exhibition path is made by Fantini Mosaici using discarded microchips and printed circuit boards. Reusing products that according to some technical standards are considered faulty allows the design studio to give the terrazzo a contemporary interpretation. The three-dimensionality of the stacked tiles generates three sculptural structures made with different shapes and Venetian seminato flooring techniques: Palladian style, Scarpa style and the two designers' free interpretation. Some of the processing steps were carried out during a short period of residence within the Park Associati practice. A composition of three sculptural elements turns the funnel-shaped aluminium waste (materozze - risers) into the legs of side tables and stools, completing the room. The Materozza Collection is made from scraps used in foundry processes, which in these objects take on an aesthetic, as well as functional value for the first time.