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Diaz14 gallery is a space designed for experimentation, where architecture, design and art meet and merge in a continuous dialogue. Based in Como, Italy, it is a place of exchange and growth, where energy and ideas come together and freely contaminate each other, fuelling an aesthetic research that knows no boundaries but rather, celebrates the diversity of creative expressions. In this art gallery, Italian designer and architect Mario Trimarchi stages Shifted Balance, a solo exhibition on view from January 24 – March 30, 2025. Trimarchi showcases a series of his creations that delineate his pursuit of new perspectives and notions through art and design.
In contrast to the fatigue of living, a subtle, somewhat foggy strategy is making its way, but without any plausible alternatives: that of building lives and relationships and slightly lateral visions of the universe, which meet us on the bias and leave us on the bias, to suggest new trajectories. I have always unconsciously called it 'shifted balance': an approach, an attitude perhaps, the constant search for a new point of view to redraw the central perspective of our existence. Thus, we rediscover the need for a strong projectuality, which generates fresh thoughts on beauty, which does not break the rules of the game but proposes to change the game: a few objects that finally become 'things', which suggest to us to consciously perform the play of our life, perennially poised between the thoughts of earth and the thoughts of heaven.
- Mario Trimarchi
Oggetti Smarriti (Stray Objects)
Starting with fruit as a pretext, the designer has tried to conceive objects that can live in the blurred gaps between design, sculpture and small architecture. Oggetti Smarriti (Stray Objects) is a 'bewildered' family of product designs that look at us and do not understand us: containers without an inside and an outside, boundary marks without fullness or emptiness, these ask for fruit to be placed around them, indifferently, inside and outside.
Strawberry Fields Forever
This is a collection that reconstructs small landscapes at the centre of the home to inhabit them poetically. Kaos and Nostalgia are part of the Strawberry Fields Forever collection: two steel and wood trays that evoke memories of ploughed fields, with their silent trees, stone ruins, entrance arches to individual plots or a donkey grazing lazily through the day. Together, they evoke a still, nostalgic yet optimistic landscape.
Close to the Edge
"I have tried to recompose a boundary universe that brings together rock and glass, eternal matter and fragile transparency, which silently invites us to think about the magic of unstable equilibrium," shares Trimarchi. Small glasses, bowls and vases defy gravity, clinging to marble fragments like molluscs on the rocks—standing confidently on the edge of the abyss. This collection of sculptural designs offers food for thought on the border between the natural and the artificial, between the existing and the designed, wondering if this border still exists.
Barricades
"I decided to work around the theme of barricades, which seem to represent today's need to choose, without hesitation, which side to be on," the Italian architect shares. "Somewhere between random assemblages and the science of construction, they would like to rise to the sky to shout that the war is over," he continues. Thus were born small architecture pieces of messy fragments, scaffolding in unstable equilibrium, invisible houses with barely sketched façades, inhabited by leaves, swallows, a donkey, a flag and small glass vases to put flowers higher than cannons.
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