Magnificat (MDW2025)

curated by Paolo Casicci
Spazio Vito Nesta, via Ferrante Aporti 16
april 4th-13th 2025

"Design as an act of devotion: to the material, to the creative process, to the very act of design itself."
This is the focus of "Magnificat. Alchemy and devotion in new design", the exhibition curated by Paolo Casicci for Milan Design Week 2025.
A selection of designers, artists, and brands operating in that space of authorial activity that is the constellation of Italian independent design.
"A scene where design and art merge completely with the biography of authors and protagonists, to give life, as in the time of the historical avant-gardes, to a personal repertoire made of highly refined experiments and new materials, of artifacts in which the most advanced artisanal component meets thought and becomes a vision of the world, copywriting in the form of an object."
Following this curatorial vision, I've decided to present Lockwerk Coffee Table, my first product ever and manifesto-object, which embodies in its purest and most original form my approach of "minimal radicalism."
A definition that expresses the desire to propose a critical approach that, despite its contradictions and limits, aims to question some stereotypes and failures of self-produced and artisanal design, using minimalist language not as a necessity but as a choice and a critical premise.
The goal remains to create furniture with a strong authorial character and a unique and recognizable personality that takes into account elements (such as logistics and reproducibility) typical of industrial products. The ambition is to explore a different operational possibility that bridges these two design methodologies. A clear and distinctive design vision, which is also found in the brand new Echo Mirror 01, which will be presented in preview for Magnificat and which continues the path undertaken with previous works.

Within the exhibition I will also present the Giano Lounge Tables, designed for Veniston.
A dialogue with Veniston's new composite material, made from debris recovered from building demolition processes.