KARTELL LUCE VIVA: THE EXHIBITION TALK ABOUT KARTELL LIGHT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF EMOTION AND FUNCTION



Lighting is a significant chapter in Kartell's corporate history which, on the occasion of the Salone del Mobile 2023, is told through the temporary exhibition "Luce Viva" set up in the central space on the ground floor of the Kartell Museum in Noviglio. An exhibition that invites the public to discover 25 of the most interesting Kartell lamps, from the past and present, inserted in a sinuous path, in which history and the contemporary meet to reveal some of the best designed and most poetic objects of the history of light design.

The mingling of past and present, history and current events is one of the constants in the cultural offer of the Kartell Museum which, thanks to its being the company museum of a living company, has the opportunity to tell the story of Kartell from a from a privileged point of view, i.e. drawing on the objects of its historical collection, made up of around 8,000 pieces, and on as many contemporary objects in which we find the heart of the values, of research and industrial production, which have always constituted the company's identity.

And it is precisely from the theme of the poetic nature of light, which expresses beauty and generates emotion, that the research for the creation of the "Luce Viva" exhibition began, which is developed in five sections that investigate the theme of light design, from the point of view of emotion and function. Curated by Elisa Storace, with the installation project by Studio Laviani, the exhibition displays, in the first section "Light that reveals", two small contemporary lamps introduce the philosophical meaning of light; in the "Light that illuminates" section, the theme of lamps that are at the service of man is investigated, with new functions obtained from innovative technical solutions; in the next section, "Light that illuminates" it is told of the light that becomes the protagonist, through the materials and the color; and in the section "Light that tells", the lamps that furnish are examined, through textures and wavy surfaces; finally, in the "Luce viva" section, a single lamp is exhibited which brings us back to the metaphorical theme and ideally closes the exhibition.