Art Late open: Alessandro Mendini

Love this modern Italian Art gallery and their exhibitions! Tickets are £9.50, or £4.75 with an Art Pass (lots of other concs).

The £3 attendance fee goes towards Meetup site costs so we can continue running the group. Please bring coins or a small note. Thanks!

More info, plus book your ticket:
https://www.estorickcollection.com/exhibitions/alessandro-mendini

We'll go to a lovely, cosy pub nearby where you can have food or just a drink (The Canonbury Tavern). I love a good pub.

"Alessandro Mendini (1931–2019) was one of post-war Italy’s most creative and influential designers and architects. Bringing together around 50 key works – from furniture and drawings to paintings, rugs and design objects – the show celebrates Mendini’s playful and poetic approach to design across his extraordinary career and through his iconic collaborations with companies such as Alessi and Swatch. [...]

The exhibition explores other aspects of the close relationship between Mendini’s work and that of the historical avant-gardes. Highlights of the show include a Kandissi sofa, inspired by Kandinsky’s abstract compositions, whilst a later group of sculptures and vases reference the mannequin-like figures that appear in Malevich’s works of the 1930s. [...]

The exhibition also includes a number of Mendini’s whimsical, anthropomorphic creations, like the now-ubiquitous Anna G. and Alessandro M. bottle openers and corkscrews (first marketed by Alessi in 1994), which capture his philosophy of “treating objects as if they were human beings; I make them smile.”"