On the occasion of the Italian Design Day, Maria Cristina Didero, design curator, and Evan Snyderman, gallery R&Company, NYC, will introduce a multiple event to celebrate the Italian Radical Design Movement.
Toronto premiere screening of SuperDesign: Italian Radical Design 1965-1975, a film by Maria Cristina Didero and Francesca Molteni, directed by Francesca Molteni and produced by R&Company.
SuperDesign is a film about 19 players of the Italian Radical Movement.
Through their words and their stories, Didero and Molteni retrace the history and the heritage of the movement. They take us back to that time when everything seemed possible.
The mid-1960s represented a revolutionary time when the need for change has spread everywhere in the Western world and has pervaded all the aspects of life. Some beautiful archival historical images recreate the atmosphere of the period.
It was a time of ‘positive turbulence’ also on an artistic level. And even today we can definitely catch a glimpse of this radical virus in our interviewees!
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Maria Cristina Didero
Maria Cristina Didero is an independent design curator and freelance journalist, based in Milan and working internationally. She contributes regularly to different magazine such as Domus and Vogue Italia, and she runs her own column titled “L’Ascensore” in IconDesign. Didero has collaborated with a number of institutions both in Italy and abroad, curating exhibitions worldwide and editing related catalogues. Among the most recent ones, AL(L): Projects with Aluminum by Michael Young at Grand Hornu (BE) for Stichting Kunstboek, (2016) and in the same year The Space in Between, Nendo’s first museum-like and anthological exhibition at Holon Design Museum, Tel Aviv (IL). In 2015 she published with Franco Audrito of Studio65, The Merchant Of Clouds (Skira) for the related show at the GAM, in Turin (IT). In 2013 she wrote the introductory text to 1968, a book by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari based on Dakis Joannou’s radical design collection. Maria Cristina Didero has published and contributed to several books, among them in 2013, The System of Objects at DESTE Foundation (GR), a project co-curated with Andreas Angelidakis, in 2011 Keep Your Seat, GAM in Turin with Danilo Eccher (Electa), in 2010 Michele De Lucchi (Corraini) with illustrations by New York based illustrator Steven Guarnaccia.
Francesca Molteni
After graduating in Theoretical Philosophy from the University of Milan, Francesca Molteni took a postgraduate course in Film Production at New York University. She curated the concept design and directed television formats and documentaries for the RAI network and collaborated with publisher Edizioni Olivares. From 2002 to 2009, she produced historical documentaries, television formats and institutional videos with 3D Produzioni Video.
In 2009 she set upthe MUSE Factory of Projects.
She has taught at IULM University, Milan, at the University of Palermo and, at Naba, the New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. Since 2012 she has contributed to the Sunday edition of IlSole24Ore as the author of “Oggetti d’impresa [Objects of Business]”. In 2014 she received the PIDA DesignPrize for the “Dove vivono gli architetti”exhibition, curated withDavide Pizzigoni for the MilanSalone del Mobile 2014.