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Nilufar Gallery participates in miart 2021 with an installation curated by Nina Yashar and recalling a theme that is very dear to the gallery: the design conversation between Martino Gamper and Gio Ponti, enriched with exquisitely contemporary notes and furniture pieces to speak of the relationship between art and design through a visual interplay of colours that moves from the past to the present while looking to the future. “I have great freedom in the act of designing, I accurately analyze and search for the two extremes, which can refer to different historical periods, spontaneously moving between the past, the present and the future, to lend a sense of temporality to the Nilufar set-ups, poised between art and design,” says Nina Yashar on being asked about gallery's showcase at the fair.
A combination of two extremely influential figures, Martino Gamper and Gio Ponti, that shines the spotlight on a console table designed by Gamper for his performance at the 2008 exhibition “Gio Ponti translated by Martino Gamper” reinterpreting the furniture pieces created by Ponti for the Hotel Parco dei Principi in Sorrento and the ironic pony skin and Mongolian shearling wool Wikatoria stools, combined with exclusive upholstered pieces by Gio Ponti, such as the iconic mod. 803 sofa and armchairs, and with tables such as the one featured in the Hotel della Città et de la Ville in Forlì and designed for the Garzanti Foundation. “An act to rethink, repossess and recreate a destiny for iconic objects in order to share them with the general public once again, to breathe new life into them and to give them a new intended use,” said Martino Gamper during his performance in 2008.
Once again, the gallery celebrates two big names in the history of design, presenting these works together with contemporary pieces by Lindsey Adelman thus creating new design interconnections, in an interplay of colours that moves from shades of blue to tones of pink. To highlight these combinations comes one of the pieces from the exhibition “I Matacubi di Pietro Consagra” that is currently being held at Nilufar Depot in viale Lancetti 34 and that will run from September 7 to the end of November, another touch of blue that brightens up the set-up with an artwork placed in an ideal home setting, where furnishings stay true to their functional nature accompanied by a refined and eclectic aesthetic. The selection is complemented by sophisticated glass top coffee tables, floor lamps and wall lights belonging to the production of prolific artist Ponti, a contemporary carpet (Caravaggio, Basket of fruit) by Brigitte Niedermair and Martino Gamper and, lastly, a sculptural pendant lamp by Lindsey Adelman that enhances the arrangement with its warm, soft light.
A preview will be held on 16 September, by invitation only.
Hours:
Friday 17/9 - 11.30 – 15.30 / 15.30 – 20.00*
ABOUT NILUFAR
Nina Yashar founded Nilufar Gallery in Milan in 1979. Originally located in via Bigli and specialized in antique carpets, at the end of the Nineties the gallery via della Spiga ventured into modern and contemporary design, showcasing the work of midcentury masters alongside unusual carpets, cutting-edge furniture and emerging designers’ pieces. Since the 2000s, Nilufar has been the protagonist of experiments and contaminations that strengthen the gallery’s reputation as an international reference point for historical and contemporary design lovers. In 2015, in a building that once housed a silverware factory, Nina Yashar also opened Nilufar Depot. Located in viale Lancetti (Milan), this wide space of 1,500 square meters, arranged on three levels and inspired by the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, houses part of the vast Nilufar collection, in an atmosphere where contemporary design dialogues harmoniously with iconic pieces of historical design.
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