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Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - ore 16:11
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mario bellini. renowned for his work as a designer, since the ‘80s, he has beenincreasingly successful in the field of architecture ...............................
mario bellini
born 1935 in milan, graduated from the faculty of architecture in milan in 1959.
in 1987, he set up mario bellini associati ltd. of which he is the president.
the services offered by ’mba’ range from master planning to architecture
and designing the layout for exhibitions and museums.
mario bellini is also renowned for his work as a designer (he begun in 1963 and
culminating in 1987 with the personal retrospective at the museum of modern art
in new york, since the ‘80s, he has been increasingly successful in the field of architecture in europe, japan, the united states, australia and the arab emirates).
among the major architectural creations of bellini:
villa erba exhibition and congress centre, cernobbio (como), 1990
yokohama business park, yokohama, japan, 1991
tokyo design center, tokyo, japan, 1992
new fair district of the milan trade fair, 1997
natuzzi americas headquarters, high point, north carolina, usa, 1998
arsoa co./cosmetics- headquarters, yamanashi, japan, 1998
essen international fair extension, germany, 1998
national gallery of victoria extension and redevelopment, melbourne, 2003
in 2001, he won the competition to design the new cultural centre of turin,
in 2003 he was one of three selected for the first place for the
redevelopment of the city centre of tian jin in china and he won
the competition for the restoration and redevelopment of the
regional gallery of palazzo bellomo in syracuse, italy.
belini has been awarded all the major international design and architecture prizes.
he has taught in the major cultural centres in the world.
from 1986 to 1991, he was editor-in-chief of domus.
he has been responsible for the exhibition design of many art exhibitions,
among which:
’the treasure of st. marco in venice’, grand palais, paris,
and the major museums around the world, 1984-87
’italian art in the 20th century’, royal academy of arts, london ,1989
’the renaissance from brunelleschi to michelangelo. the representation
of architecture’, palazzo grassi, venice, then in paris and berlin, 1994-95
’the triumphs of baroque. architecture in europe 1600-1750’,
stupinigi hunting palace, turin, 1999
major personal exhibitions:
1987, ’mario bellini designer’ at the museum of modern art, new york.
1996, at the royal institute of british architects (riba).
2000, ’mario bellini: a path between architecture, furniture and cars’
at the municipal gallery of contemporary art of trento.
2003, at the national gallery of victoria in melbourne.
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we met mario bellini in milan on april 5, 2004
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what is the best moment of the day?
I’m moody and unpredictable. any moment is a good moment,
preferably when the sky is not grey.
what kind of music do you listen to at the moment?
I listen to a lot of music. I listen to everything,
but I am extremely selective when it comes to quality.
I hate background music or used as a ritual in a routine.
do you listen to the radio?
yes, especially in my car. words isolated from images
convey their extradordinary communicative value.
what books do you have on your bedside table?
in the evening I prefer to read 20th century and contemporary poetry.
essays and novels require the long time of youth,
rare free weekends, many intercontinental flights.
do you read design magazines?
I flip through the few main ones unsystematically.
architecture, mostly, but also furniture, cars and objects,
have to be read and understood in person, going in them,
touching them, taking them in your hand.
where do you get news from? newspapers?
radio, television, print in general, travelling and
continual exchanges linked to my work.
do you notice how women are dressing?
do you have any preferences?
I am foremost interested in people.
clothing, especially for women, is an important means
of expression and communication. I like invisible elegance
which evidences the personality and fascination without
aggressiveness and redundancy.
what kind of clothes do you avoid wearing?
architect and designer uniforms
(all black, or black with a white, collarless shirt.)
and ’uniforms’ in general, like ’climbing managers’.
do you have any pets?
no, no pets.
when you were a child, did you want to become an architect?
when I was 9 I built my first habitable house with bricks and I drew a
’strip’ in color with devils and ghosts to slide through a projector.
where do you work on your designs and projects?
everywhere: in bed, at home listening to music I know, in airplanes,
in hotels, and naturally in my studio at the tables with my young architects.
sometimes with closed eyes just before I go to sleep.
who would you like to design something for?
for anyone who can be a stimulating counterpart,
someone demanding or not easily pleased.
or who respects your capacity as a designer.
do you discuss your work with architects and designers?
when architects and designers meet they talk about other things.
we communicate better and more with our work and our writings.
describe your style, like a good friend of yours would describe it.
someone talked about my buildings as ’urban islands’, fragments
of urban fabric which generate spatial sequences rather then
objects in themselves. and regarding my objects, furniture and
machines, as inventions which involve sensorial experiences
and behaviors more than their ’function’...
can you describe an evolution in your work from your first projects
to the present day?
I like to consider every project like a new exploration to be
faced with curiosity, maximum mental openness and renewed
creative energy. I hate to recycle my linguistic clichets even though
I am always driven by the same designing attitude as in my early days.
what project has given you the most satisfaction?
those who, tempered by difficulty and adversity
(economic, technical, legislative, due to time, due to use)
have come to maturation without having been burdened
by some undigestible compromise.
is there any designer and/or architect from the past,
you appreciate a lot?
the history of architecture and design (which is experienced
and lived on the territory, in cities, in buildings and in museums)
are our point of reference and our source for training.
each time there are different masters, works or entire periods
(including contemporary experiences) which are either necessary
or indifferent for us. it would be reductive and insufficent to
list a series of names.
any advice for the young ?
no young person ought to undertake and continue in this
field without experiencing a strong internal necessity
supported by a specific talent.
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what are you afraid of regarding the future
I try to maintain an attitude of moderate optimism thinking that
(as always happens) even our time, in the near future will be
considered with sufficiency because it is obsolete and with
nostalgia because it is the depository of irrimediable,
hopelessly lost values.
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the questionaire of marcel proust (1871 - 1922) .......................................................................................................................................................
(in age of fourteen proust was given an english album "confessions : an album to record thoughts, feelings".
seven years later marcel proust published this questionaire)
in the literary salons in nineteenth century paris, this parlour game was a popular amusement.
for designboom mario bellini has answered these ’old fashioned’ questions.
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the main traits of my character.
curiosity and deepness.
a quality I desire in a man.
loyalty.
a quality I desire in a woman.
loyalty.
what I appreciate most among my friends.
loyalty.
my principal defect.
tendency to avoid conflict.
my favourite occupation.
designing.
my dream of felicity / happiness.
to be loved and successful.
what would be the biggest misfortune for me.
lose contact with people and the outside world.
who I would like to be.
It’s too late to change.
where I would like to live.
italy with many airports.
the colour I prefer.
I like them all.
the flower I love.
all those with perfume.
the bird I prefer.
crows from goa.
my favourite authors.
italo calvino, george simenon, stendhal.
my favourite poets.
montale, homer.
my heroes in fiction.
ulisses.
my heroines in fiction.
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my favourite composers.
stravinskij, miles davis, schubert.
my favourite artists.
de chirico, francis bacon, piero della francesca.
my heroes in real life.
astronauts, artists.
my heroines in history.
artemisia gentileschi.
my favourite names
those of my children.
what I dislike the most.
vulgarity.
the historic characters I dislike most.
hitler.
the military enterprise I like the most.
the salvation army.
the reformation I appreciate the most.
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nature’s gift I would like to have.
a powerful memory.
how I would like to die.
while sleeping .
my soul’s present condition.
I’m in love- an anxious optimism.
the faults I can bear.
those caused by generosity.
my motto.
if you have to do something, do it well with all your dedication.
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