The IM-Inside the Matter project (Creative Paths of Contemporary Making and Thinking) featured two artists and two designers in dialogue about the interpretation of the materials used (iron/paper) to create their works.
Gian Maria Tosatti exhibited Untitled (dream), a bed salvaged from an abandoned mental hospital where generations of patients had slept, weaving a suspended thread over it as a trace of their dreams. Dodo Arslan presented ScaccoMatto, a totemic bookcase-sculpture created specifically for IM, whose shape is generated by rigorously and obsessively weaving sheet metal to form a “three-dimensional” fabric.
Andrea Mastrovito proposed Tristan und Isolde, a work in which the narrative of the love-death pairing of the two legendary lovers takes shape in the cut-out paper. Riccardo Blumer presented XXI (twenty-one) g. (grams), a translucent paper chair, specially created for IM, stable and fragile at the same time, free from the task of being passively ‘seated’, finally just an unsellable and unusable chair.