Veneto-based materials landed on Milan Design Week 2023 and made fairly an impression with them INTERNAL being some of the visited installations in Alcova. Finest identified for his or her wire metallization of surfaces, the corporate turned a former chilly storage room into a fascinating room of mirrors designed to encourage guests to replicate, replicate on themselves and pay attention.
Materica remodeled the house round it with recycled MDF boards that they metallized to create mirror-like surfaces handled with oxidation and coloring processes. The multi-step course of resulted in refractions bending gentle throughout the room on each floor. A collection of three-dimensional gold faces protruded from the flooring and ceilings, pushing by way of the flat surfaces, nearly as in the event that they had been rising for air after being submerged. Topped off with additional coloration results and the house was a collection of optical illusions that felt otherworldly.
“We needed to create a spot exterior of house and time, the place you might be welcome and heard. A temple the place we are able to take a second to really feel ‘ourselves’, indifferent from society’s pressures, superficiality, appearances and absence,” say Tiziano Guardini and Luigi Ciuffreda of GuardiniCiuffredaStudio, artistic administrators of the INTERNA_MENTE set up.
The mirrored surfaces that replicate us make us the central characters of our personal being, right here within the current. Nose to nose with a determine who in flip acts as our mirror. The inside turns into exterior, as a result of that picture is the materialization of our intimate dialogue with ourselves.
