Luigi Mulas Debois, 8H | GRANPALAZZO 2016
29 May 2016
Luigi Mulas Debois, Handbag, 2016
Luigi Mulas Debois, 8H, May 29th, 2016. Palazzo Rospigliosi, Zagarolo
Luigi Mulas Debois, 8H, May 29th, 2016. Palazzo Rospigliosi, Zagarolo
Luigi Mulas Debois, 8H, May 29th, 2016. Palazzo Rospigliosi, Zagarolo
Luigi Mulas Debois, 8H, May 29th, 2016. Palazzo Rospigliosi, Zagarolo
Luigi Mulas Debois, 8H, May 29th, 2016. Palazzo Rospigliosi, Zagarolo
curated by Raffaella Frascarelli
Sunday, May 29th, 2016 from 10.00am to 6.00pm
GRANPALAZZO, Palazzo Rospigliosi, Piazza dell'Indipendenza 6, Zagarolo (RM)
What limit must be crossed in order for the artisan to become an artist and his work to become a work of art? How can beauty be engraved in seriality? Which value dynamic takes place between tèchne and art? The performance by Luigi Mulas Debois investigates the relationship between content and container, placing artisanal crafts at the center of the action. With the contribution from the students of the Accademia di Costume e Moda, a space of physical and conceptual crafting will unravel before the eyes of the public: a sewing machine for bags will envelop the artist in an “oversize” transparent Handbag that becomes a workspace from which to serially produce other handbags, identical to the prototype, that will be donated to the public as original multiples of author.
The Handbag: object of cult, symbol of identity, custodian of the map of daily life, appendix of the body, sign of status becomes the expedient to interrogate the value generated by an economic vision that acts along two inverse directions. On one hand, the seriality of the Handbag as symptom of an archetypical beauty (identical to the prototype) which generates cultural references that detach from any attribution of value: the teleological illusion of possessing one piece of each thing finds its justification in the materialistic order imposed by the market. On the other hand, the human contribution, the action and collective effort that the craftsman has to engrave to the seriality, a claritas and an aura of beauty without time must measure with the ergonomic choices that favor a de-industrialization which tires and erodes the intellectual capacity of the deus ex machina, departing him and alienating him from the object he has created. A metaphor that investigates the complex relations between materialism and work ethics, between aesthetics and social disharmony, between culture and technique, between consumerism and equity.
To build a future in which the work-space can transform in a territory to imagine and accomplish one’s dreams, both as a cognitive experience as well as a social awareness and self-education, implies complex political and social choices. A symbol of a society that is obsessed by recognition of status and, at the same time, it is unable to permeate it with self-criticism, the Handbag interrogates us on the possibility of an equitable future, shared and sustainable for all.
The spectators can observate the elaboration and making of the Hanbags from 10.00AM to 6.00PM, the Italian standard working hours.
Luigi Mulas Debois was born in Rome where he lives and works in the fashion industry as a designer and model maker. He is currently the Coordinator of the Accessories Department and Director of the MA in Accessory Design at Accademia Costume & Moda, Rome.