SWING unique | Lucia Massari
STRATA
Lucia Massari
SWING unique
a Via della Penna 59, Roma
Boutique Hotel Anahi
Lucia Massari
Italian product designer born in Venice, Lucia gained a Master’s degree in product design from the Royal College of Art in London in 2009. While there, she studied under the tutelage of Martino Gamper and Jurgen Bey. She launched her eponymous studio in 2010, splitting her time between Venice and London. In 2013, she formally moved her studio to Venice. Lucia’s multidisciplinary practice frequently incorporates collaborations with local artisans and ranges from product design to installation and performance. She explores the physical presence of objects, inspired by our daily activities around them. Moved by a strong passion for colours and traditional old-fashioned craft techniques, she designs ordinary furniture and objects that teeter between two and three dimensions, exposing both her craftsmanship and her experimental side.
STRATA
Glass fusion is an operation which fuses together different coloured flat sheets of glass in an electric oven. It resembles the work of collage yet on a two-dimensional plain. Strata is a mini series of plates created with the concept of overlapping material whereby the glass is positioned in space to form a structure. The material becomes both substance and form, creating a casual overlapping effect as if it were a natural sediment.
Exclusively to Swing Design Gallery.
Education
2019 : MA Royal College of Art, Londra, UK
Exhibitions
2017 STRATA, Lucia Massari, SWING Design Gallery, Benevento
2017 Materialia, Curated by SWING Design Gallery, Chiesa di Santa Teresa, Benevento
2017 Morphosis, Curated by Alice Stori Lichtenstain, Schloss Hollenegg, Graz
2017 White flag, Curated by Triennale di Milano/Silvana Annichiarico, Giorgio Camuffo, Triennale di Milano, London
2016 Design under 35 Curated by Triennale di Milano/India design week, NSIC Grounds New Dheli
2016 Operae/designing the future, Curated by Annalisa Rosso, (Piemonte Handmade with SWING Design Gallery), Palazzo Cisterna, Torino
2016 Design under 35, Curated by Triennale di Milano, MARQ museo de architectura y diseno del sociedad centrale de arquitectos, Buenos Aires
2016 White flag, Curated by Triennale di Milano/Silvana Annichiarico, Giorgio Camuffo, London design biennale, Somerset house, London
2016 Slow, Curated by Alice Stori Lichtenstainm, Schloss Hollenegg, Graz
2015 Vienna design week, Curated by Lilli Hollein, Brotfabrik, Wien
2015 From to, Curated by Martino Gamper, Salone del mobile, Galleria secondo me, Milano
2014 Venice stuff, Curated by Kanz architetti, Venezia
2014 Friends/Open on mondays collective, Curated by Lucia Massari/Nina Mrsnik, bi ko fe, Lubjiana
2014 Pop up dom, Curated by pop up dom/Nina Mrsnik, Galleria A+A, Venezia
2014 From/to, Curated by Martino Gamper, Palazzo Caccia Dominioni, Milano
2011 ICA/workshop results show, Member’s room, ICA, London
2011 V&A making, video, V&A, London
2010 Foodmarketo/tea testing, Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion, Barbican Art Gallery, London
2010 BIO Lubjiana design biennale, Residency, Slovenia
2010 Superorganism, Dutch Design week, Eindhoven
2010 Foodmarketo/coffe and friends, Brompton Design District, London design week, London
2010 Venice 2132, Great Western Studios, London design week, London
2010 AAA cercasi nuovo artigiano, Festival dell’artigianato, Palazzo Sturm, Bassano del Grappa
2010 AAA cercasi nuovo artigiano, Festival dell’artigianato, Palazzo Valmarana Braga,Vicenza
2010 Venice 2132, Curated by Fondazione Claudio Buzziol/Martino Gamper, Milano design week/Fuorisalone, Milano
2009 Making Fun Serious, Curated by Yamaha, Chapell of Bond street, London
2009 Royal College of Art final Degree show, London
2009 Making Fun Serious, Curated by Yamaha, Royal College of Art & Yamaha,
Cube Manchester, Manchester
2008 Crashland, Curated by NoamTuran and Onkar Kular, TRICO gallery, Tokyo
2006 Teach me, Curated by Giorgio Camuffo, Graphic design festival, Magazzini Ligabue, Venezia