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Serena Confalonieri designs Cezanne, a new collection composed of three decorative panels created by the Italian company Forma&Cemento, which, under Marialaura Irvine’s art direction, excels in the field of concrete design.
The designer finds her inspiration looking into the past, confronting herself with the masterful still-life creations of the European artistic tradition. In fact, the collection’s name refers to Paul Cézanne, the French artist from the late 1800s, who painted a series of still-life artworks, now exhibited in some of the most important museums in the world. The pictorial representations are taken up by Serena Confalonieri and revisited in a contemporary key: the clean geometries and the use of cement give life to works of art, light and material at the same time.
The panels included in the collection are made of coloured concrete modules that give life to pieces that are a result of expert craftsmanship and sit halfway between art and design. Each subject corresponds to a different geometric shape: the vase is the protagonist in the round-shaped panel, a series of table objects are the rectangular panel's main characters, and the oval-shaped piece features a bottle, a glass and a pear.
This way, a rigorous material such as concrete takes on a completely new artistic and decorative connotation, in line with the sinuous and colourful aesthetic vision of the designer.
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